Kirk

you're absolutely right the only solution remaining is to harass the dev harder🙄

The actual practical use cases of LLMs are so specific and rare (not to mention almost certainly more expensive without the VC funding) I'm starting to feel like the anti-AI "it will take our jobs" narrative is one that the companies help support.

It wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that these harassment campaigns against crucial FOSS infrastructure/chokepoint maintainers were funded by Thiel.

Worse even because they're not waving their fists at "the world", they're waving them at a person.

Honestly I would not be shocked if years from now we discover these harassment campaigns are funded by Thiel.

It honestly sucks that the #1 requirement to being an effective FOSS maintainer (above even coding talent) is the skill of enforcing healthy emotional boundaries.

I don't see anyone here quietly hoping

I'm no fan of vibe coded apps but rsync is literally free software with a free licence... forking it seems like less work than harrassing the guy who maintains in the hope that he capitulates.

Good point! It's probably some weird A/B testing.