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Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing (mikemcquaid.com)
submitted 2 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev
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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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[-] Shin@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago

Sadly, unless you are on the viral side of the open source, all labour of love can and will be used in private for big corp gains, and this I think it’s unfair. But as the author of the text express, “fuck it” you did something expect nothing in return.

this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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