Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
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This post is heavily inspired by my experience over the last ten years participating in the open source community and eight years as a maintainer of Homebrew (which I’ve maintained longer than anyone else at this point).

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

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    2 hours ago

    I have not looked at the CVEs in Rsync specifically, but given the deludge of “critical” security issue found by AI lately that have been mostly nothing burgers, I am near certain the same applies to those included in that Rsync patchset.

    • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu
      1·
      10 minutes ago

      It must be nice to have technical opinions that don’t need to be grounded in facts. Why would you check your assumptions when you can just vibe.