Oct 5, 2026, 1:22 PM@tbortels ah, I'll need to dig a bit deeper to see what the real sequence of events was. My understanding was that the instabilities started after the introduction of Claude generated code. If things had already gone south before that, I missed that bit.
Still feeling decidedly uncomfortable trusting Claude generated code is such a critical bit of software.
I tend to agree, but pragmatically - it's open source. Your alternatives also have no guarantees of provenance or quality. And closed source is worse - at least this way we could, in theory, audit.
And if I have the time line right - big If, but hey - the first introduction of AI was a flood of AI generated external bug reports, which is what prompted the revamp of the test suite. The alternatives were maybe to ignore the reports, or manually update the tests?
And I'd repeat: no AI in the mainline code *that we know of*. Guarantees there will be hard to come by. The price we pay for free code is that people do things we may not approve of or know about.
I personally backrev on purpose. The world is my beta tester. :-)