Statistical Analysis Debunks Claims That Claude Increased Bugs in Rsync

Following viral accusations that 'vibecoded' Claude commits degraded the venerable rsync utility, a data-driven investigation analyzes 36 releases to empirically test the claim. Despite intense online outrage and harassment of maintainers, the review finds that releases with Claude contributions fall within the project's historical bug distribution, undermining the narrative that AI assistance introduced meaningful regressions. The author open-sourced the methodology and scripts to invite replication and scrutiny.