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
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.