the "oh hey yeah, we're drowning in PRs, I suggest turning on Claude Code" mail in the openwrt-devel list is quite the jumpscare

oof.

my response is here: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2026-April/044694.html

please don't brigade. that won't help anything.

those who know bits about embedded dev, the challenges of the intricacies of OS-dev, etc - you know who you are, and how you can reply

those that don't? please just observe at a distance and learn

AI code review (Claude, maybe Codex)

@froztbyte The responses are surprisingly "thin", ignoring the ethical and dependency building dimensions 😞.