Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

Post by dash2 » Sun, May 31, 2026, 9:59 AM UTC

mattbee wrote: post #82

baliex wrote: post #43

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I 100% agree with the "please don't fuck up this stable & reliable workhorse" sentiment. I haven't read this in detail but "Six CVEs are fixed in this release. All six are assigned by VulnCheck as CNA. Affected versions are 3.4.2 and earlier in every case." seems like a pretty solid answer to the "why". https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.3

But there's been security fixes in most releases of rsync! Even then, why would a security fix be some kind of strike against AI? We've all seen LLMs being used to tease out the most serious and obscure bugs in C codebases. I'd expect to see a lot of security fixes for an ancient, well-used codebase when an LLM analyses it. Where is the slop commit here? And why is that commit evidence that tridge has lost his mind t…

Post by otabdeveloper4 » Sun, May 31, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC

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.…

Post by thevinter » Sun, May 31, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC

consp wrote: post #125

thevinter wrote: post #116

This whole brigading is bizzarre and some people are behaving like irrational animals. I potentially understand the motivations that might bring one to want to "win" this battle but this really isn't it - it just makes you sound like a fanatic. It takes 5 minutes to search for "regression" on the issue page and go through the 17 results. There are potentially even more on the tracker used prior to github. I think thi…

> I think this behavior is very silly and people are just trying to justify their hate to AI by latching onto every possible thing It's not silly to have issues with something. People act on their issues. Possibly not the issue underlying the commit at hand here but something else, and act on it which makes it something to consider. My guess is people are tired of the "AI is the greatest thing since [cultural referen…

Post by weiliddat » Sun, May 31, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

antirez wrote: post #120

A few years ago, the probability of such shit reaching the Hacker News home page was near zero, because regardless of the merits, here was not full of normies that could not understand when a behavior is unacceptable (I'm referring to the violence of the language of the issue). And now, here we are, surrounded by people that can't tell the most obvious things.

Post by consp » Sun, May 31, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

thevinter wrote: post #135

consp wrote: post #125

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> I think this behavior is very silly and people are just trying to justify their hate to AI by latching onto every possible thing It's not silly to have issues with something. People act on their issues. Possibly not the issue underlying the commit at hand here but something else, and act on it which makes it something to consider. My guess is people are tired of the "AI is the greatest thing since [cultural referen…

> It's not silly to have issues with something. I absolutely understand and agree. As I said, I understand the underlying reason. The silly part is the brigading - issues should be adressed on their own merits. The specific GH issue, and some of the comments therein, make the whole crowd they're affiliated with look bad. (imho)