Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing

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https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/

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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if there is a good way to use ai its to deal with problems from ai.

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Or is it just throwing a second Frisbee up in the tree?

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that is actually a good way to get the frisbee out of the tree. Your extremely unlucking if you end up with two up there.

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