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.

It’s only your data, NBD.

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.

What a fuckin nightmare.

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?