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by jrflowers 5 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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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.