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Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs (medium.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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Seems like he's been pushed into using LLMs as a way to cope with the deluge of LLM-generated security reports.

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[-] TheOctonaut@piefed.zip -4 points 2 weeks ago

There is a significant majority of people on Lemmy who think installing Linux made them a software engineer and think that code completion is "vibe-coding" and not a basic feature of fucking Eclipse

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