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The Rsync maintainer, Andrew Tridgell, used Claude Opus to add a Discord link to the README in one of his recent commits (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 197 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

For those who've never heard of him, Andrew Tridgell is not just some kid cosplaying as a programmer, he's an open source legend. Apart from rsync he created Samba. Oh, and apparently he annoyed Linus Torvalds into inventing git lmao

Sure, it looks like he's made a blunder or two but let's not dogpile on him please. This is Fuck AI, not Fuck People.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

"Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals" ~ Michael Brooks

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Don't coddle him either. He should feel shame and embarrassment. Otherwise he'll keep on with this crap until he starts losing push privileges

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Losing push privileges?

He's the author of rsync. He decides who has push privileges.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

On Rsync. He contributes to many projects. This can 100% go the same as a dev who develops a substance problem

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 14 points 3 days ago

Looks like he's having a dark chapter in his life. I don't know what caused the burnout initially but AI is part of the doom cycle. He could use mental healthcare.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

Doing absolutely nothing would be better than the current travesty.

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[–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 35 points 3 days ago

LLM usage has been shown to have a negative impact on cognition and in my experience it can really destroy a dev's confidence and coding ability. If he's being forced to use LLMs at work by idiots with business degrees then that could be effecting his work on rsync, amplified by the burn out.

[–] kerthale@lemmy.world 119 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Seems like the real story here is one guy maintaining a critical infrastructure begging for volunteers to help out and nobody steps up. So yeah, I really don’t like what he does. And also the OSS community is failing him.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 82 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that these harassment campaigns against crucial FOSS infrastructure/chokepoint maintainers were funded by Thiel.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 98 points 3 days ago

Think bigger.

Remember the XZ hack a few years ago? That whole mess started with a targeted harassment campaign towards the project's lone maintainer. Eventually the sock puppet accounts wore him down and he was convinced to bring on a second maintainer to help with the project... who also turned out to be a sock puppet and who introduced the critical backdoor into XZ.

A lot of research has been done into this event since it happened, and the current consensus seems to be that both the harassment campaign and the malware creation were done on behalf of the Russian government.

So we're now in the era where FOSS maintainers have become the targets of literal nation-states.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 49 points 3 days ago

to me it feels like this guy has burnt out, and is in desperate need of new contributors.. quite sad

[–] vapeloki@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago

I know, this is about AI, but can we stop for a minute and rage about the fact that fucking open source projects use a fucking spyware as a service that collects massive amounts of user data?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Sounds like they've now become completely dependent on AI to make the simplest, smallest changes. 😬

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, even when he has a huge staff of himself to do everything.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (7 children)

🤷‍♂️ I'm the sole developer at my project at work and I don't use AI. 👍 Especially not for editing a markdown file. I know how to paste links and phrase sentences and I don't intend to dull that skill by using AI.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 40 points 4 days ago

Gallons of water and who knows how much power to add a discord link on a text document?

Even more egregious waste of resources than most uses of the hallucination machines.

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