Comment by petetnt
3 days ago
Homebrew 6.0.0 seems to be the first major version of brew that is heavily written using AI. There’s new document at https://docs.brew.sh/Responsible-AI-Usage that was added 11 hours ago. Do you think that these guidelines have been followed consistently since 5.0.0?
I would say I’ve embraced AI most heavily and I wrote this document so: yes.
I review AI written code on Homebrew the same way I review code from a no avatar GitHub user with no previous contributions.
The experimental and abandoned brew-rs frontend was more “vibe coded” using my knowledge of how to benchmark and test homebrew accurately and with a shitload of manual testing. Maybe that’s why the performance wasn’t as good as expected, who knows.