Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
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This post is heavily inspired by my experience over the last ten years participating in the open source community and eight years as a maintainer of Homebrew (which I’ve maintained longer than anyone else at this point).

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

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I feel this article is a bit outdated. Unless you put it into an AGENTS.md file… Contribution has changed a bit since 2018. The coding agents won’t abide by those standards for issues and merge requests 😅 The users and contributors, should, though. And double-check, reproduce and understand what their agents do, before sending anything in.