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Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs (medium.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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Seems like he's been pushed into using LLMs as a way to cope with the deluge of LLM-generated security reports.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 weeks ago (48 children)

Repost of my reply elsewhere:

This guy is already retired, he wants to spend his days sailing and here we are bitching about rsync not being good enough while we all use if for free

Most of us won't be able to help code, fine.

But most of us could help with translations

Many of us could help with documentation

Some of us could contribute regularly with small financial donations

Some of us might have enough knowledge and expertise and experience to help code

Others could come up with other tasks that could be done.

The point is: rsync need more resources. Either we get him more resources or we STFU about the retired dev using AI. We can't have it both ways.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 10 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

This whole debacle is making me extremely black pilled about open software in general. Just like cheap computing has died in recent years, I suspect non corporate free software is about to meet the same end to the acclaim of people who think they're doing a good thing for the world.

[–] Grazed@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you mind describing what black pill means in this context? I'm familiar with the red/blue pill references, but could only find the incel context of black pill online. Is it just a "harsh truth" kinda thing?

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry for bringing terminally online slang to the table haha

In my head yeah it's the pill that teaches you a bleak and depressing truth but shows you no way out of it. I may be misusing the term.

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