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
Sadly, unless you are on the viral side of the open source, all labour of love can and will be used in private for big corp gains, and this I think it’s unfair. But as the author of the text express, “fuck it” you did something expect nothing in return.
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.