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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    Yea, I find all these knee jerk reactions directly asking for rsync alternatives once AI has been mentioned a bit annoying. Like, we wouldn’t be in this place if a project of this importance wouldn’t have been maintained only by a single dude for years…

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      Completely, some people are just entitled especially in the FOSS and fuck AI crowd. Like I get it but FOSS is literally where it’s gonna be a net good.

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          No net good would be if everyone chirping about AI use in coding picked up a book, Intro to C, Rust, hell even Java. Till then this is all we got. What’s your solution to the problem of developer burnout in FOSS projects?

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              And who has the time or money for that whenever you want or can? Especially when you’re asked to come out of retirement. Stop being an entitled brat

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                This is volunteer work! He can stop doing it at literally any time! No one is forcing him to do this!

                The more you people go on about how much he has to work, the more I’m thinking that this whole open source thing is a huge human rights violation.

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                  He was literally asked to come out of retirement dude, cause the people with the actual fucking expertise with these tools are a handful. So in some ways, you are benefiting from the expertise of a handful of people and don’t even realize it.

                  Like have you even looked at the rsync code?

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                    He was literally asked to come out of retirement

                    And he can say no! I don’t understand how you don’t get this. He’s not being paid, he can’t be fired. He does not have to work like Sonic on a hamster wheel, he just doesn’t.