It wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that these harassment campaigns against crucial FOSS infrastructure/chokepoint maintainers were funded by Thiel.

That was my take on it. It isn't the only case.

"Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals" ~ Michael Brooks

Doing absolutely nothing would be better than the current travesty.

Don't coddle him either. He should feel shame and embarrassment. Otherwise he'll keep on with this crap until he starts losing push privileges

Yeah, even when he has a huge staff of himself to do everything.

AI is only really useful for making the simplest, smallest changes.

While that is definitely a risk one Claude commit in what might have been a larger MR doesn't really tell you much.

It could have been a single item in a long list the agent just put it in its own commit.

No - you can fork and continue the development. It’s open source - you dont depend on shit. Except stepping up and chipping in, it does take that

Or maybe the corporations that heavily depend on rsync (ie, all of them) can donate some of their developers' time to help the maintainer out.

My sweet child.. that's exactly what the 'agentic' shit is about, llms spinning up more instances and going back and forth between them... and that's why you read those stories about the monthly bills shooting up like crazy

This is already how subagent workflows work

Half the devs using AI have handed their critical thought over to it, so they're already basically an AI model telling another AI model what to do.

Yes, they've been doing this for a while: https://openai.com/index/building-self-improving-tax-agents-with-codex/

Probably using speech to text so, that's already happening.