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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    11 days ago

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

    An interesting but valid argument. It doesn’t make AI better than it is, but any human contribution and change can and often is also faulty. People have gaps of knowledge, sometimes unwarranted confidence, other times lack of care, or just miss things. It’s not like we’re comparing the perfect human vs faulty AI.

    If you don’t mind the security risk then you can of course use an older release.

    I haven’t read the original rage/drama but I can imagine if from other drama instances.

    This post is certainly a good, founded response.

    There’s some valid concerns in AI usage, but unwarranted or inappropriate harsh criticism when it’s an established trusted developer and engineer - if we assumed good practice before then we could assume continued good practice. Maybe LLM is one point of increasing skepticism, but criticism should be open, respectful, and fair.

    They invested a lot of time and effort into a public good project. In that context, they deserve at least respectful and non-worst-assumptuous criticism.

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      People have gaps of knowledge, sometimes unwarranted confidence, other times lack of care, or just miss things. It’s not like we’re comparing the perfect human vs faulty AI.

      I went through the trouble of looking at one of the problematic changes in the latest rsync release, and what happened is that it surfaced a bug introduced in 2007 which was previously silently ignored. That’s definitely a mistake any human contributor could have made.