alt Hacker NewsUsing Claude for code you use yourself or at your own company internally is one thing, but when you start injecting it into widely-shared projects like this (or, the linux kernel, or Debian, etc) there will always be a lingering feeling of the project being tainted.
Just my opinion, probably not a popular one. But I will be avoiding an upgrade to Node.js after 24.14 for a while if this is becoming an acceptable precedent.
I still think everyone is trying to run away from the copyright problems with AI, and suspect it's going to come back to bite them. Eventually. (No I'm not willing to bet on exactly when because I'm sure it'll be a lot longer than I'd like).