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Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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post #380

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Yes. That's called firing the customer in my line of work. This doesn't seem egregious enough to fire the customer.

Again, this is not work and they are not customers. This is somebody spending their free time on code they enjoy and then putting the result online. The reason businesses are careful about which customers they fire is because they want to keep having customers. Open source maintainers have no reason to deal with that shit.

No this is part of the foundation that many open computing systems are built on. It's long past being just someone's experimental personal repo.

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

#522

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…

Seems reactonaries have forgotten that writing something in a license doesn't mean you can just it as a get out of jail free card in every situation.

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again, this is not work and they are not customers. This is somebody spending their free time on code they enjoy and then putting the result online. The reason businesses are careful about which customers they fire is because they want to keep having customers. Open source maintainers have no reason to deal with that shit.

No this is part of the foundation that many open computing systems are built on. It's long past being just someone's experimental personal repo.

How many people have to star your repo before it's no longer yours?

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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post #507
post #136

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"antisemitism" loses it's meaning if you are using it this way.

Literally the only thing the guy posted was a copy-pasted "Israel" location. What other possible interpretation is there than "this guy is from Israel, so you can't trust him"?

So? Still not antisemitism.

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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i am correcting the description of what is going on. that is not hysteria and i am not a mob.

No one is a mob. They are just part of one.

You're getting it. There are mobs of attackers and mobs of defenders, but not mobs of explainers here.

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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post #416

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Do you think LLM use is evidence of psychosis? I think it's a widespread problem but probably not psychosis.

At least once a week we have a post on HN about CEOs having AI paychosis. Maybe there is something to it.

I like the term paychosis

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

#527

I find the way that issue was opened incredible obnoxious, but it is baffling that the maintainers seem to have let AI loose on rsync. Like, why? Why try comparatively experimental crap when your fortune and reputation is made and you're the leader of a niche and immune to market pressure and the people love the thing and it does exactly what it's supposed to and works well? It's like the Matrix, with the little rant…

A couple years back, I think I would have bent over backwards to defend the maintainers. It is a gruelling and thankless effort to maintain any open source project, let alone one as established as rsync. I guess I just don't see AI being a net positive anywhere, and I have to see this backlash to using gen AI as a good course correction from the general populous. There are other posts talking about the instant gratif…

> I guess I just don't see AI being a net positive anywhere

well, at least you're being honest about your non-empirical biases...

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

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post #161

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> instant gratification I'm with you. I don't understand why it affects some people more than others. To me, using AI triggered my sense for drugs and addiction after a while: when your first association for an engineering product is "it feels _great_!" then run, it's just cocaine with extra components. A tool should not make you feel good, just accomplish the task.

ADHD might be in play, and I think it‘s undiagnosed by more people than we assume. And it‘s fine, because as long as you can deal with it, it‘s not an issue. I can imagine that the addiction to LLM hits the same areas as addiction to, say, gambling, binge eating or shopping. I wrote a small thing about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081469

So is ADHD also to blame for "being addicted" to driving instead of walking?

What about using a sewing machine instead of hand-sewing?

Washing machines instead of hand-washing? (Some people still swear by air-drying instead of using a dryer, but there aren't that many "hand-washing is just better" holdouts, even if it might be true!)

Note that in all of these cases, you ALWAYS grin when you first use the more automated thing after having done the manual thing, and you ALWAYS lose something by going the faster/less-laborious route. If people are simply hyperfocusing on what is lost when you lean on LLM for coding, then they're simply going to miss the train (yet another invention that superseded walking and horseback-riding, with its own set of tradeoffs!)

We all know a walk is good on its own terms even if a car is faster, but if your goal is to get from point A to B in less than a certain amount of time, sometimes only a car will do. Hand-washing probably is less wear-and-tear on the clothes and lets you focus on dirty spots. Air-drying leads to fresher-smelling clothes that don't shrink. And hand-coding leads to a more curated solution than an LLM ever could... All of these at a comparatively extreme extra time or labor cost.

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

#529
post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple years back, I think I would have bent over backwards to defend the maintainers. It is a gruelling and thankless effort to maintain any open source project, let alone one as established as rsync. I guess I just don't see AI being a net positive anywhere, and I have to see this backlash to using gen AI as a good course correction from the general populous. There are other posts talking about the instant gratif…

> instant gratification I'm with you. I don't understand why it affects some people more than others. To me, using AI triggered my sense for drugs and addiction after a while: when your first association for an engineering product is "it feels _great_!" then run, it's just cocaine with extra components. A tool should not make you feel good, just accomplish the task.

on "a tool should not make you feel good"

I never thought I'd actually see an anti-joy argument being used in all seriousness, but welcome to 2026!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413983

Thoughts on that, then?

Re: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

#530
post #17

I find the way that issue was opened incredible obnoxious, but it is baffling that the maintainers seem to have let AI loose on rsync. Like, why? Why try comparatively experimental crap when your fortune and reputation is made and you're the leader of a niche and immune to market pressure and the people love the thing and it does exactly what it's supposed to and works well? It's like the Matrix, with the little rant…

> Like, why? Because everyone, including this forum, is addicted to the instant gratification of LLMs. It’s pure hubris of thinking you can scan the output and it does what you think it does.

You know what nearly-mindless, time-consuming task it can probably do better than anyone and free you up to keep on coding?

Deploying and watching CI and looping until it passes.

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