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Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing (mikemcquaid.com)

submitted 3 days ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev 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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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 points 15 hours ago

A maintainer position is a profession position — unpaid or otherwise. It isn't a "gig."

And I can't run my computer with "good intentions."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1vTGN52MCc