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Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing (mikemcquaid.com)
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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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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They could have just refused merging slop. Rsync didn't need these "contributions".

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What about the 6 critical security bugs he fixed in that release. Didn't rsync need those "contributions"?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The "critical" bugs that I have recently seen being found by AI were all extremely unlikely to be exploitable under realistic assumptions 🤷

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Which of the CVEs in question are you referring to?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

The ones in Nginx and the Linux kernel.