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Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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Post by vsgherzi »

I also hate the ai slop but on the flip slide this maintainer has been asking for help for years and dosent receive much in the discord. I also want quality code but don’t jump to demonize a volunteer especially when not many have jumped in to help

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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Post by cinntaile »

vips7L wrote: post #19
scared_together wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I look at the commits themselves, most of the ones generated by Claude are testsuite changes, or at least labelled as such. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/

Aren’t LLMs notorious for just making tests pass and not actually testing functionality?

You have to keep an eye on them, but they don't just make tests pass.

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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Post by koehler »

I truly don't get it

You have a rock solid piece of software used by an infinite amount of people and other services. It works fine, does it's job and just have some time to time updates due to minor bug fixes.

Why do we need AI here?

And more over, why people is saying "fork it and use the previous version". It should be actually all the way around, create a parallel fork younamethetool-ai and keep the OG untouched.

What I have to do now, keep a fork of my entire system's toolkit?

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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Post by cwillu »

jochem9 wrote: post #28

This is the third HN post I read on this topic. Everytime the same tweet (or whatever it's called for mastodon/bluesky/etc). Did anyone actually debug the issue? Was it caused by poorly generated code, or was it caused a genuine (security) fix that accidentally caused it (potentially even in a way a human would to)?

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... has a partial list

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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Post by egeozcan »

bfkwlfkjf wrote: post #20
dnnddidiej wrote: post #5

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If I were a user, knowing that the maintainers just let Claude lose on rsync would be bad for my stress levels. In any case, I hate rsync owing to how easy it is to accidentally deleting everything. From my pov I don't care if it disappears.

> If I were a user, knowing that the maintainers just let Claude lose on rsync would be bad for my stress levels.

I think you are being too entitled.

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

#40

Post by nottorp »

koehler wrote: post #36

I truly don't get it You have a rock solid piece of software used by an infinite amount of people and other services. It works fine, does it's job and just have some time to time updates due to minor bug fixes. Why do we need AI here? And more over, why people is saying "fork it and use the previous version". It should be actually all the way around, create a parallel fork younamethetool-ai and keep the OG untouched.…

> Why is there a need of AI in here?

For the same reason as some people would rewrite it in Rust.

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