Practical AI Code Generation Lessons from Rsyslog's 200k LOC C Codebase

Summary

Rainer Gerhards, the creator and long-time maintainer of rsyslog, published a detailed account of integrating AI code generation tools into the development workflow of rsyslog — a mature, roughly 200,000 lines-of-code C codebase. The post addresses a common skepticism that AI coding tools are overhyped and provides a practitioner's perspective on what actually delivered value in a complex, legacy systems-programming context. The article reportedly covers specific patterns that worked when apply