It's like the Matrix, with the little rant about the primitive human minds not being able to accept paradise. You wrote the perfect tool, you won, almost undisplaceable in a niche, reliable, a metaphorical household name. It makes no sense to anyone to gamble or mess with that, it's just mind boggling.
And that's still a damn obnoxious thing to do in the formal issue tracker. Bad attitude, bad faith.
Because everyone, including this forum, is addicted to the instant gratification of LLMs. It’s pure hubris of thinking you can scan the output and it does what you think it does.
Wow.
1: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...
It should really be considered negligence at this point. Some of this software is extremely valuable, it's how we flourish as humans. Purposely fucking with that should bear some real world consequence. We do the same in every other industry, software is just as important too.
The amount of drive-by hate being thrown at project maintainers of an open source project is depressing.
- programmers had problems with delivering quality long before LLM’s
- very much research and tools went into that, bringing us {Git, libraries, VSCode, reviews, …,} but the human factor stayed the same (and more pronounced imho than in other fields of engineering)
- LLMs democratized programming, enhancing a few, dropping the bottom to no skill programming
- the tools and practices created for the quality problems from the past turn out to be wholly incapable of maintaining quality in the present
The main problem behind this is that those delivering the QA tools of the past are central in the AI race. Old school engineering would separate these concerns.