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by jrflowers 19 days ago
The only reason why people are talking about this is because of the bugs in the code that the chat bot generated OP. People updated to a version of rsync that didn’t work right, the one with all the bot commits in it. This blog post is about how claude didn’t create more bugs than usual if you think about it in one very specific way, not that it didn’t create more bugs at all.

It is like if your neighbor opens your door and a dog walks in, there’s no point in doing some weird analysis about all the times you yourself have let a dog walk in. He still did that.
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logicprog 19 days ago
That doesn't make any sense, what?
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jrflowers 19 days ago
I am not sure what to tell you here, because somebody literally posted the code of a bug that Claude inserted here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419197

And your response to someone pointing out that sloppy, buggy code that Claude introduced, was to just quote Tridge (which does not in any way refute the fact that you’re looking at a bug that Claude introduced to the code)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419621

I’m not entirely sure what the purpose of this project is (maybe to “prove” Tridge’s opinions about LLMs and human intelligence that he made in the linked blog post to be right?), but it appears as though you are ignoring irrefutably true observations. You just asserted that “the data” doesn’t show Claude introducing any bugs (which is a bizarre claim) after previously responding to a documented bug with a… deferral? Do bugs not count if you can find a vague excuse for it?

There is nothing in the blog post that is evidence that Claude didn’t introduce bugs. It is a thought experiment that uses “increase bugs” and “increase bugs more than a given arbitrary statical amount that I selected” as interchangeable statements.

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logicprog 19 days ago
I'm saying Claude didn't introduce any more bugs than the human maintainers of rsync had in the past, not that it introduced no bugs at all. That "arbitrary amount" is the historical amount of bugs. That's why I'm confused. You're completely missing my point and talking past me. Yes, Claude may have introduced a bug. That doesn't change that it doesn't really matter.

Additionally, I quoted Tridge in response to a comment about an increase in changes to rsync, not in response to the person pointing at one bug Claude introduced. If you actually looked at the thread, you'd see that. I didn't deny the Claude introduced bug at all.

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