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rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 6 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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36 commits by ‘tridge and claude’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EAo9jo-U4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260603-rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups - podcast

time: 7 min 34 sec

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

someone with a pretty website and a wife who knows statistics mounts an impassioned defence of tridge and the clankers:

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

a person whose last two years worth of github contributions are related to confabulation machinery, surely this is an unbiased analysis.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

One of the most egregious examples of p-hacking I've ever seen.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

dividing by commits is some nasty sleight of hand given the commit rate has gone through the roof. "only 3 bugs per 10 commits!!" doesn't really mean much when there's an order of magnitude more slop commits than not