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Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? by int_19h on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:39PM (#48420526)
> An entire software industry built on top of a burning garbage pile of crappy, dead code.

That has been the case for the last, oh, decade or so. Where do you think LLMs learned to slop code?

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Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? by archagon on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:41PM (#48420541)
Things have been bad, but every company using its own bespoke LLM reimplementation of rsync and similar is so, so much worse.
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Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? by int_19h on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:15PM (#48420741)
Why would every company do it though? They'll just all be using the same (Anthropic's) AI-enabled fork.
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Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? by archagon on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:48PM (#48420925)
You think Anthropic wants to be the sole maintainer of thousands of forked OSS projects...? I seriously doubt that would happen, for legal, marketing, and logistical reasons alike.
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Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? by int_19h on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:12AM (#48422263)
Anthropic, probably not. I could totally see Altman or even Musk deciding to do that exact thing as a showcase of sorts.
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