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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    Also, nobody actually knows if human intelligence is just finer grained stochastic prediction as well.

    I think some people are stochastic parrots and some are not. I think most of our true understanding of things comes from escaping our limitations. Why so many people want to become a stochastic parrot is beyond me though.

    Now to the future, because we’re not done yet by a long shot. The security reports keep rolling in. I’m working on a bunch of CVEs right now. Luckily I’ve been joined by some other very good developers with great systems development skills and security knowledge. Some of these people came to my attention partly because of all the rage happening at the moment, so I get some rage storm clouds have silver linings. Watch out for some credits for some great new rsync developers in the next release.

    The project is being taken over by vibe coders, yay.

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        You can look at the tone of the whole post to understand where the author is mentally. You can also make an educated guess about who will want to work on a project that’s being coded with LLMs. If I’m wrong remind me and I’ll own it. But I don’t think I am.

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            Lol, I’m not a court of law, I’m a person. I can make my own judgments based on what someone said and how they said it.

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              Cool story bro.

              Conjecture (and largely unfounded at that) isn’t evidence. I’d bet money that you don’t even have the ability to evaluate the project to determine if it’s being vibe-coded (as it seems is the case for everyone raging about this).

              Lol, I’m not a court of law, I’m a person.

              Get lost with this deflection crap. You’re the one who was making a definitive statement (“The project is being taken over by vibe coders, yay.”) about a widely respected figure responsible for creating one of the most used pieces of software ever (not to mention Samba too) who IMO deserves the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

              I merely asked you to provide evidence to back up your statement and clearly you’re unable to do that. Don’t try to push it back onto me trying to make me seem unreasonable for asking.

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                I’ve seen it enough times to see a pattern. This post is riddled with tech bro language, there’s no denying it. More of it is coming with everything that entails.

                Thankfully there’s still openrsync. I didn’t even realise I was already using it so I’m not invested into arguing further. To all vanilla rsync users, Godspeed.

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        There is a significant majority of people on Lemmy who think installing Linux made them a software engineer and think that code completion is “vibe-coding” and not a basic feature of fucking Eclipse