…Regardless of the code assistant, I’m not seeing any cause for alarm in my personal usage, yet. Feature requests and issues are getting closed, even urgent security ones that shouldn’t have been posted in that manner:

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/871

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/882

Seems like business as usual:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@thesamesam/116662824873341085

One thing I will say on rsync is that regressions aren't new with it. It does something hard: it has to deal with symlinks. Releases have often had regressions for a long time, especially for security fixes, and it long predates LLMs, because symlinks are hard. Of course seeing a gazillion Claude commits still makes me uncomfortable, but it's important to see what's new as well.

[–] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 3 points 2 days ago

Unsure if they're talking about rsync introducing AI code and breaking. Or that dev that introduced code that broke systems using AI.

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago

Serfs needs to subordinate to the masters.

[+] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today -20 points 2 days ago (31 children)

I remember reading an article where the author explained why telling this is free, you can fork, or send a pull request instead of complaining is a form of ableism.

An analogy, which is not 100% accurate, which I used to explain it to ither people is, "it is not very different from a carpenter telling you, 'the wood is here, the tools also, you can do it yourself it you didn't like what I did'.

The point is software development is a skill. Not everyone can have that skill. It takes training and practice to be good in the craft. A user of the product does not need the skill to operate it. Never think it is okay to tell people "just fork it" or "why don't you send a pull request instead of complaining?".

At the same time, I completely acknowledge that there are some entitled assholes who don't understand or care about the open source philosophy and how it works. I just wanted to point out that asking to contribute or asking to fork is not the right way to address it.

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Ugh, chicken? Give me some free steak. Chop chop!

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like this analogy. One virtue that it has is: Obviously, not everyone can realistically learn to do their own carpentry. It requires a certain amount of time, space, opportunity, capacity for spatial reasoning, and some minimum level of able-bodiedness. None of which are universally available to everyone.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not his problem. You didn't pay the carpenter.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 0 points 2 days ago (6 children)

So the fact that not everyone can be a carpenter would become the carpenter's problem, if I had paid him?

Huh?

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[–] halfdane@piefed.social -3 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Except you're not exactly homeless, are you?

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