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Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing (mikemcquaid.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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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

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[–] 8 points 5 months ago

At least it's not like a bunch of other popular libraries:

Then I get help from the community for a couple of years and a bunch of contributes to my bridge. Then my bridge is so nice that I can add a toll booth on both sides of the bridge and start charging people money to get across

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