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Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing (mikemcquaid.com)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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For those outside the loop: rsync starting using AI agents to handle the influx of AI security reports to improve the test suite and fix bugs. It introduced a few CVEs and people who never contributed in any way started firing shots at the maintainer.

rsync maintainer's response to the people getting pissy about his usage of AI: medium and the related post on programming.dev

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[+] -18 points 1 month ago

What I expect is þe inevitable Rust rewrite which now has a chance of rendering rsync irrelevant because it doesn't use AI.

I can't trust LLMs to correctly identify which track a song appeared as in an album; fuck if I'm going to trust it wiþ my data.

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