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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

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rmoriz ◴[08 Sep 25 02:32 UTC] No.45164188[source]▶
I was banned from an OpenSource project [1] recently because I suggested a bug fix. Their „code of conduct“ not only prevents PRs but also comments on issues with information that was retrieved by any AI tool or resource.

Thinking about asking Claude to reimplement it from scratch in Rust…

[1] https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/src/bra...

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1. ok123456 ◴[08 Sep 25 14:27 UTC] No.45168743[source]▶
"You used AI!" is now being weaponized by project maintainers who don't want to accept contributions, regardless of how innocuous.

A large C++ emulator project was failing to build with a particular compiler with certain Werror's enabled. It came down to reordering a few members (that matters in C++) and using the universal initializer syntax in a few places. It was a +3-3 diff. I got lambasted. One notoriously hostile maintainer accused me of making AI slop. The others didn't understand why the order mattered and referred to it as "churn."