Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing (mikemcquaid.com)

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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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[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel this article is a bit outdated. Unless you put it into an AGENTS.md file... Contribution has changed a bit since 2018. The coding agents won't abide by those standards for issues and merge requests 😅 The users and contributors, should, though. And double-check, reproduce and understand what their agents do, before sending anything in.

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