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
how did he slopify anything? he got a huge invtease in contributions and used a tool to help weed out slop.
They could have just refused merging slop. Rsync didn’t need these “contributions”.