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> Is there any evidence that the bug rate on rsync is any worse than it used to be? or just a screenshot from mastadon? There's plenty of evidence that rsync 3.4.3 has broken a bunch of features like incremental copies, yes. Which is why your post is a great proof of how AI derangement can make previously great engineers output broken dangerous slop.
Has rsync never broken features before, without AI?
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Did he ask for help in churning all the code for no reason? Rsync was complete software. It does not need features, it needs stability and merely maintenance. If the author used AI for small, well-reviewed maintenance changes, that would be okay. But instead he is making large and sweeping changes that are entirely uncalled for and cause breakage. If the maintainer is overworked, that is even more reason not to do th…
What the hell why are you thinking you decide anything?? The man has his project and can do whatever he wants with it. Read the license.
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wtf is this comment section? The author of these commits were tridge & claude. What does tridge have to do to convince the open source community that he might be a legit programmer & have a clue? Samba? Whats that? Rsync? Never heard of it. Tivo? No clue (maybe more Australian context here than others, but still). Even the comments on the github issue, are totally devoid of the context that this is a very senior open…
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It does not paint a pretty picture, and I did not know this context.
Perhap the tridge I knew is also of the past, but I hope not.
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Does an AI rewrite in Rust cancel out?
I did recently read an article about how, due to better training data, an AI writes better code in Rust than most other languages. How that translates to the number of bugs, I don't know. I would think that existing bugs would be caught, but new bugs would be introduced. The problem remains, but at least it has a new name now.
Seem to me some people have forgotten about FOSS projects > 15. Disclaimer of Warranty. > THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FI…
One of the issue comments says:
> Just because you are giving free soup to the homeless, doesn't mean you can piss in it.
Is there any evidence this was broken by AI? I feel like these day any time users find an issue in software they blame it on "vibe coding". But software had bugs before AI.
The issue is apparently this commit (someone did a git bisect): https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/859d44fa4f14207... Which is a fix to the security issue CVE-2026-29518: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29518 A CVE reported by VulnCheck which is a company that uses AI to find software vulnerabilitys. I would honestly blame this on bad test coverage. If you look at most of the commits where Claude…
Write some code and then ask Claude to diff your changes and write a commit message. Now the internet hates you
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“No warranty” isn’t the same as “no complaints”. Otherwise there wouldn’t be an issue tracker and a discussions section. The issue in question has already gone to crap and your point has been made there as well. It could definitely have been handled better, by all parties involved, but blindly quoting legalese isn’t going to resolve anything or make it better.
An Issue tracker is to track issues regarding the behaviour of the program, not the behaviour of the maintainer.
I'm shocked that people are jumping on one of the most productive and powerful OSS maintainers in existence. The actual Claude "churn" is mainly test suite enhancement.
Nobody whose software you use for free owes you anything. It is so important not to lose sight of this. If you feel like they do owe you something, that's only because years of habit -- years of using other people's software for free, and having the good fortune of finding it generally to improve in quality over time -- has caused your baseline to drift from the true state of affairs, which is that nobody whose softw…
> Just because you're giving free soup to the homeless doesn't mean you can piss in it