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rzerowantoday at 10:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

Seems like Yes. https://nitter.net/FFmpeg/status/2084084810813743614 "Thank you @ClaudeDevs and @AnthropicAI for supporting FFmpeg through the Claude for Open Source program!

So far, Claude has helped find missing backports for the upcoming 9.0 release."

Although i was under the impression that they ususally preferred hand optimized assembly. Not sure what their LLM/AI contribution policy looks like compared to other fundamental OSS projects.


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dspilletttoday at 10:55 AM

> Although i was under the impression that they usually preferred hand optimized assembly.

Using LLMs/agents to do gap analysis and fill boilerplate doesn't rule out also reviewing the output and hand-optimising. That is how the tools should be used (if you aren't being a luddite like me and not using them at all) rather than click-and-hope vibe-coding.

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rawlingtoday at 11:50 AM

No domain knowledge at all here but "find missing backports" doesn't sound like writing/porting code.