Rimu@piefed.social to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 days agoRsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMsmedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1257arrow-down1external-linkRsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMsmedium.comRimu@piefed.social to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square223fedilinkfile-text
Seems like he’s been pushed into using LLMs as a way to cope with the deluge of LLM-generated security reports.
minus-squaredeltapi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 hours agoThis is the guy who accidentally forced the creation of git, by reverse engineering the BitKeeper protocol and getting all the Linux kernel developers’ licenses revoked. Chaotic Good energy.
minus-squareJamonBear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 hours agoSo i dug up a bit about Andrew Tridgell: The reverse engineering details: https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/ License offering and revocation: https://github.com/CuriousCurmudgeon/history_of_vcs/blob/master/06_bitkeeper.md
This is the guy who accidentally forced the creation of git, by reverse engineering the BitKeeper protocol and getting all the Linux kernel developers’ licenses revoked. Chaotic Good energy.
So i dug up a bit about Andrew Tridgell: