Why not? Claude marks its commit messages. That there were none, and then there were, seems a signal.
Especially since if the earlier commits were so clearly AI authored yet without the Claude marker, surely you or anyone would be able to spot them. You could say, X commit does not have the Claude commit marker yet was AI written. But for all the speculation on this thread, I haven’t seen anyone actually doing that. What may be possible is that the rsync maintainers used AI to assist yet reviewed and edited themselves, as many devs do, and if so then the stats in this article are still notable: there are no poor quality outliers that can reliably be attributed to AI and if one specific release (3.4.0) was, the subsequent releases which presumably also had as much AI as this speculative hidden AI release only show improvement and thus act as a pro-AI argument.
The blog has many more datapoints than two. It compares many releases. You’re looking at 2-vs, not 2.
Especially since if the earlier commits were so clearly AI authored yet without the Claude marker, surely you or anyone would be able to spot them. You could say, X commit does not have the Claude commit marker yet was AI written. But for all the speculation on this thread, I haven’t seen anyone actually doing that. What may be possible is that the rsync maintainers used AI to assist yet reviewed and edited themselves, as many devs do, and if so then the stats in this article are still notable: there are no poor quality outliers that can reliably be attributed to AI and if one specific release (3.4.0) was, the subsequent releases which presumably also had as much AI as this speculative hidden AI release only show improvement and thus act as a pro-AI argument.
The blog has many more datapoints than two. It compares many releases. You’re looking at 2-vs, not 2.