Re: [LFS Trac] #5902: XML-Parser-2.56

#5902: XML-Parser-2.56
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  13.1
Component:  Book         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by Douglas R. Reno):

 Replying to [comment:2 pierre]:
 > It has been reported on discord (thanks vlad557776) that a lot of recent
 commits to the XML-Parser source have been done by an AI (Claude) and a
 bot! See https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/commits/main/
 >
 > Note that this is a decision of the maintainers of the package since the
 last line of README.md is
 > {{{
 > The project started making use of Claude Code <https://claude.ai/code>
 in January 2026
 > }}}
 > But I fear if this kind of automation is generalized, we'll get
 overwhelmed with new versions of everything!

 This has been unfortunately had an impact elsewhere already as well. The
 lead developer of Vim is now heavily using Claude during his changes as
 well. The kernel developers are also using AI tools heavily during their
 work and this has lead to a couple of noticable problems with the 6.18 and
 6.19 series of kernels, such as 6.19.2
 (https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.19.2) which
 fixed boot failures caused by 6.19.1, and the change was not properly
 verified or tested.

 It's something that we'll need to keep an eye out for, as in my experience
 with VIM and XML-Parser, a lot of the time AI is used without validating
 what it is writing. Scary times :(

 I know Gentoo is postponing updates on this as well as the other Perl
 modules by the author, but even if we decide not to update in the future,
 we still need to monitor the changes anyway for anything security or
 significantly related to stability...
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