I just wrote this comment to your Medium article:
I agree so 110% with you (Andrew)! And I want to take the opportunity to thank
you for the immense service you have done for the worldwide IT community, and
still are doing without pay despite your retirement! Your work has contributed
immensely to the development of the current world-wide state of computing, and
if someone writes a definitive history you deserve your own subchapter!
For the flamers: step up and offer to review PRs, write tests, contribute your
own PRs to fix the code, etc.. Or, just please shut up. Simple as that. The only
result you might achieve is that Andrew stops maintaining rsync, and my God,
there will be a lot of angry people out there for your "contribution"
to the internet.
Sure, LLMs make mistakes, but so do humans. Prove to us that the final code
quality gets worse when using LLMs (by someone with 40 years of experience,
using Andrew's approach) or, again, shut up. The fact that AIs are currently
finding droves of issues that have slipped by fallible humans proves a point
about their proficiency.
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Robin, I am not sure I understand what you're trying to say with "In
terms of the resulting code quality, that's not functionally different from
hiring an intern". Well, yes, but this intern has read pretty much every
piece of code out there, every CVE and every fix, comment, and discussion about
them :).
Sincerely,
Stein Haugan
> On 3 Jun 2026, at 07:14, Robin Powell via rsync <rsync at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> FWIW, I think people who are going to yell at you when you're manually
reviewing all the code and stand by it as though it were yours are being
ridiculous. In terms of the resulting code quality, that's not functionally
different from hiring an intern. Sorry you're going through that.
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 8:14?PM Andrew Tridgell via rsync <rsync at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
> there has been quite a lot of outrage lately about rsync development.
> I've (perhaps foolishly) tried to address some of it here
> https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
>
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