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Which of these commits https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commits/ as actually made with “AI” support and how?
Is this satire? Just wondering, because it sounds so stupid.
Journalctl looks interesting for the first time in 10 years
A new chapter, for sure. A very sad chapter, unfortunately.
I was gonna post a list of other things that happened on July 9 2025, but it was all kinda depressing.
The post ended with “stay tuned”. Do you have any update for us, OP?
They posted a series of other AI-related blogs in July, August, and October:
- https://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-documentation-enters-a-new-era-with-ai-first-strategy/
- https://www.rsyslog.com/clarifying-ai-first-what-it-really-means-for-rsyslog/
- https://www.rsyslog.com/shipping-better-docs-with-ai-restructuring-module-parameters-for-clarity-and-consistency/
- https://www.rsyslog.com/introducing-the-rsyslog-commit-ai-assistant/
- https://www.rsyslog.com/new-rsyslog-ai-assistant-powered-by-digitalocean-gradient/
I, like the other commenters here, am not privy to the 2 years of evaluation and experimentation.
However, I won’t let that stop me from condemning this in no uncertain terms because AI bad and that’s more correct than any amount of “observational data” or “experimental evidence”.
We may not be users of the software, contributors to the project or were even aware of what rsyslog is prior to seeing this announcement but as people who are chronically outraged we have valid concerns about this development which will ruin the software that we only recently discovered existed.
Rsyslog comes standard on most if not all Linux distros, I’m willing to bet most people here have at least heard of it, or use/have used it in the past, especially if you’re a sysadmin. You pretending it’s some obscure software we’re all only just now hearing about, tells us you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Think before you speak.
So, after sifting through all the other breathless articles from their website it seems that they’re going to :
- Use a LLM to attempt to sort out their documentation.
- Have a chatbot trained on the docs so you can ask it questions and possibly get coherent answers.
- Some sort of vague thing where the LLM provides guidance and suggestions on improvements to the codebase.
Lots of reassurance that they’re not going to let it do vibe coding but to be honest, they doth protest a little too much methinks.
So you read a bunch of articles detailing exactly how they plan on using AI and they have specifically said that they’re not using it for vibe coding.
And your conclusion after reading all of this is that they’re going to be using it for vibe coding.
It seems like you’re doing some vibe reading
If you read the phrasing carefully it’s quite clear that it will be doing things to the codebase, just “with oversight”.
How much oversight? Not sure, just some assurances that there will be oversight.
Vibe coding is essentially just a different phrase for that.
Rsyslog comes standard on most linux distros, yes. It didn’t get that way because the development team are idiots who don’t know what they’re doing.
So, on one hand we have the developers of a piece of software used by a majority of Linux users saying that, after 2 years of evaluation and testing, that these tools are useful and effective and on the other hand we have random social media people who’s only knowledge on the topic is that they know AI is bad and therefore this cannot be anything but bad.
