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> the maintainers seem to have let AI loose on rsync

is it an assumption ?

No: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/

Almost all the commits are regarding the testsuite or CI, both of which are IMO great use of AI.

I think that’s misleading. Yes, almost all commits co-authored by Claude lately are about test suite and CI, but that’s just because almost all commits lately are about test suite and CI. The commits which aren’t test suite and CI are also co-authored by Claude. Go a bit further back in the commit history (April 29 onwards) you still see a sea of non-CI/testsuite Claude commits.

Oh and another thing I just learned: it seems like the reason there are so many test suite commits recently is ... Tridge got Claude to rewrite all the tests in Python and delete the old shell test suite: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/903/

That's ballsy. I feel like if I used Claude heavily for a piece of code, an existing test suite would be something I would want to rely on to catch mistakes.

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