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Rsync is reportedly causing backups to fail since maintainer began AI code experiment
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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Which makes it all the more disturbing that he has turned to slopmachines.
If you read the discord chat logs, it makes sense. He's being bombarded by security vulnerabilities discovered via LLMs, from people who barely know how to code and can't even explain the flaw that their LLM discovered. He's a solo maintainer, and his choice is either to leave these security vulnerabilities open, or to turn to LLMs to try to keep up with the need for patches.
I don't think he made the right choice, but I think he's probably a much better programmer than me.
This is about to be a big thing. LLMs are very good at finding exploits and creating scripts to exploit them. Now a script kiddy is much more powerful. Companies are trying to figure out how to respond. Red Hat's Project Lightwell is one such project.
https://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell