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Rsync opens the slopgates, regressions and bugs ensue

Andrew Tridgell, developer of rsync, has published a blog post addressing the massive surge in "AI" code submissions and the string of regressions supposedly caused by them. He explains rsync was flooded with "AI"-generated security reports, and he couldn't handle the volumes anymore.

As this flood started to get mo

https://www.osnews.com/story/145198/rsync-opens-the-slopgates-regressions-and-bugs-ensue/

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@passthejoe @osnews don't listen to that drivel and actually read his blog post which is very clear and reasonable and completely refutes a lot of the rumors like "he vibe coded the entire new test framework without checking anything"

no, he designed the new test framework and used AI to help him build it out and he *needed* a better test framework than what existed so he could safely rearchitect rsync to address the CVEs that have not even been disclosed yet

also he pointed out that openrsync is junk and fails almost all of his tests

@feld @osnews @passthejoe yeah, it is easy to criticize. It is extraordinally difficult to bear the burden of being a maintainer, especially if a person achieved what Tridge did.
It is his time and his decision how to spend it and what to do with his projects. Everyone is free to fork the GPL-licensed projects, if they are willing to invest into it. Tridge owes us exactly nothing, but most of opensource users owes him respect.