Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing

submitted by onlinepersona to opensource 32 points | 14 comments https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/ For those outside the loop: rsync starting using AI agents to handle the influx of AI security reports to improve the test suite and fix bugs. It introduced a few CVEs and people who never contributed in any way started firing shots at the maintainer. rsync maintainer’s response to the people getting pissy about his usage of AI: medium and the related post on programming.dev