Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/145198/rsync-opens-the-slopgates-regressions-and-bugs-ensue/

Proof

Rebuttal by Andrew Tridgell

It’s only your data, NBD.

What a fuckin nightmare.

If you look at the commits in the repo by going to https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/ you'll see that most of the new commits are tests (click 'Next' to see slightly older commits, the first page doesn't really demonstrate my claim very strongly).

He's mostly using a LLM to increase test coverage, not to add production code.

As LLM usage goes, this is pretty low on the toxicity scale.

I have absolutely no regrets about doing that, although from the storm of anti-AI rage it’s clear that many people think I should be hung up by my toe nails and flogged for even considering doing this.

• Andrew Tridgell

Oh, is that up for a vote?

If you want to do that, do that to the companies pushing it, not the users of it ioo.

Please do not use the word clankers in this community. It is ableist against those that have prosthetics, thank you!

It's unclear to me what the bugs caused are. All I see is a GitHub issue where someone complained things stopped working after an update and blames the AI commits without further evidence. Some are saying the AI was primarily writing tests. I bet the AI did introduce several bugs (or enable them through bad tests) but this article seems more interested in personal drama than the bugs.

This is a fair point. Thanks!

What?

Okay, so it's a slur against robots, droids and other synthetic life. It isn't too much of a stretch therefore, to understand its use against those with prosthetic limbs etc.

To be honest we are against the uses for both meanings, as it seems like it's just yet another excuse to use a slur because it's something people hate.

We can crititicize 'AI', 'LLMs' without resorting to words like "clanker", "slop" etc.

Such things distract from actual critique anyway, and even if we want to use more vitriolic words then words like "trash" (to describe their output) already exist and avoid veering either into, or dangerously close to, slur and bigotry territory. :)