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

submitted 2 days 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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[-] petrol_sniff_king 1 points 3 hours ago

Money can reduce stress.

If you're poor! These are different kinds of stress!

I bet you if FLOSS maintainers didn't have to worry about money, they'd be making very different choices in life.

They're not being paid! I think they have to worry about money quite a bit!

people are berating him for his approach without contributing a damn thing.

Yeah, he's like breaking it. He should probably retire a second time before resorting to sabotaging this thing he allegedly cares about.

They can all fuck off.

As far as I know, they are. Like, away from rsync entirely.

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