Yes
Our issue backlog was cut by around 70% in a couple of months after Opus 4.5 was released
AussieWog93 on Hacker News
Our issue backlog was cut by around 70% in a couple of months
In the thread “Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs”
Helped: Automating CI/CD builds and tracking down user issues quickly.
Got in the way: Mixed results upstreaming fixes due to maintainer hostility or lack of review.
… If a user posts an issue, Claude can track it down in 15 minutes flat. Our issue backlog was cut by around 70% in a couple of months after Opus 4.5 was released - I could fix 5 issues in a coding session rather than 1, and new users who would vibecode a fix would often upstream the solution via PR. As a user, deployment of many FOSS apps has gone from a nightmare to 15 minutes of prompting. …