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submitted 5 hours ago by mudkip@lemdro.id to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

I looked at the rsync commit log and basically every commit since March says "tridge and claude committed." Andrew Tridgell, the guy who literally invented rsync in 1996. Now hes using a chatbot to write the code and proudly displaying its name right there in the commit.

And before anyone goes "calm down its just a typo fix" no. The recent stuff is the security fixes for 3.4.3. The symlink race CVEs.. You know, the exact part where you want an actual human who understands what hes doing, not a machine that spits out code that looks correct but has correctness errors.

Do you get how insane this is? Rsync is the thing holding up basically every backup system on earth. Your NAS uses it. Distro mirrors use it. The server with you grandmas photos uses it. And now the plan is to let a token predictor that can't even count the amount of letter R's in "strawberry" write code for it.

"But the tests pass." The tests pass because the AI probably wrote the tests too you walnut. Its a loop of confident nonsense thats grading its own homework, and the first time it hits an edge case nobody fed it its gonna silently corrupt something and noone notices till the backups are already poisoned.

I'm pinning v3.4.1 and not updating again. If you defend this, dont say nobody warned you when the data loss posts start appearing.

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[-] DavidGA@lemmy.world 39 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

OpenBSD forked it a while ago as “openrsync”. It’s already the default on macOS.

[-] tinsuke@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

Nice!

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync

This is an implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license. It's compatible with a modern rsync (3.1.3 is used for testing, but any supporting protocol 27 will do), but accepts only a subset of rsync's command-line arguments.

But also:

The actual work of porting is matching the security features provided by OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2). These are critical elements to the functionality of the system. Without them, your system accepts arbitrary data from the public network.

rsync has specific running modes for the super-user. It also pumps arbitrary data from the network onto your file-system. openrsync is about 10 000 lines of C code: do you trust me not to make mistakes?

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

While you criticize someone for just accepting things, you didn't check if that is actually the case?

[-] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Saw a post somewhere else on it but my instance can't load it now for some reason.

Anyways, here's the Discord dump for those who don't want to join (Tor not allowed, sorry I don't have a better file host, AI brought down 0x0.st). No further commentary.

[-] Alawami@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 hours ago

There is a massive difference between a vibe coder accepting whatever the LLMs writes without understanding any of it and an engineer who understands the codebase and reviews what the LLM produces. Whether the maintainer reviews the output of LLMs rigorously like any random pull request or not, is not verifiable, thus it's not worth discussing.

[-] Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

Whether the maintainer reviews the output of LLMs rigorously like any random pull request or not, is not verifiable, thus it's not worth discussing.

No. It's worth discussing, it is destroying confidence in the product.

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago

Whether the maintainer reviews the output of LLMs rigorously like any random pull request or not, is not verifiable, thus it should be assumed they did not.

FTFY.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 hours ago

Since a senior engineer is clearly in the loop here I wouldn't pass judgement on these commits without looking at their actual content. LLMs can be used responsibly, too.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 points 5 hours ago

If its bad code then you can audit it and claim those bug bounties. Its a well known project with a lot of eyes on it I think the quality will remain high.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 17 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

lot of eyes on it I think the quality will remain high

This was bullshit when Raymond argued it in the 90s and it's even more bullshit now.

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