Fuck AI

For those who've never heard of him, Andrew Tridgell is not just some kid cosplaying as a programmer, he's an open source legend. Apart from rsync he created Samba. Oh, and apparently he annoyed Linus Torvalds into inventing git lmao

Sure, it looks like he's made a blunder or two but let's not dogpile on him please. This is Fuck AI, not Fuck People.

Seems like the real story here is one guy maintaining a critical infrastructure begging for volunteers to help out and nobody steps up. So yeah, I really don’t like what he does. And also the OSS community is failing him.

Sounds like they've now become completely dependent on AI to make the simplest, smallest changes. 😬

to me it feels like this guy has burnt out, and is in desperate need of new contributors.. quite sad

Gallons of water and who knows how much power to add a discord link on a text document?

Even more egregious waste of resources than most uses of the hallucination machines.

I know, this is about AI, but can we stop for a minute and rage about the fact that fucking open source projects use a fucking spyware as a service that collects massive amounts of user data?

LLM usage has been shown to have a negative impact on cognition and in my experience it can really destroy a dev's confidence and coding ability. If he's being forced to use LLMs at work by idiots with business degrees then that could be effecting his work on rsync, amplified by the burn out.