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Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs (medium.com)
submitted 3 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

The trouble with some of those projects (e.g. unison and sun thing) is that they don't solve the same problem, not really.

A rewrite with modern tooling would be better done if it was incremental.

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