- Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705 - May 2026 (466 comments)
Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334021 - May 2026 (81 comments)
by happymellon
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- A bit of a mixed one here.
The vibe coding got the project attention and it looks like he's going to get the help he needed.
However the "outrage", if you even call it that, wasn't entirely misplaced when pretty basic bugs were introduced by this, such as:
Can't use rsync with absolute paths:
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/922
Links mode is broken:
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/915
The scale of the commits, and rewriting the entire testing framework was pretty big for a "bugfix" revision.
- 11 hours since this has been posted and 20 comments. Nobody that's raging really cares about the reasoning. All that matters is: AI use spotted -> time for the warpath.
- The sooner we all collectively realize that the commonly cited "reasons why LLM code is bad" and "reasons poorly architectured, poorly planned, poorly tested code is bad" are a circle on a Venn diagram, the sooner we can hopefully make some effort to escape this sports fan tribalistic nonsense.
- All of this noise and velocity will provide significant cover for the Jia Tans of the world.
by oompydoompy74
0 subcomment
- I really feel for the developer of Rsync. He did absolutely nothing wrong and got flamed to hell for it. I’m glad he has help now and I hope all of the negativity doesn’t get to him. I would certainly have a difficult time with my mental health if I was on the receiving end of all this hate.
- > I did not just vibe-code “convert test suite to python”. I’m a software engineer with 40 years experience (yeah, I’m OLD!)
Interestingly enough, I see the trend of people with decades of experience using AI more and more often. I'm in the 20 years club myself, and I do AI-assisted coding every day. It does help, and I'm grateful to have a tool like this to quickly try new ideas and throw them away if they suck. Shaming the author for using AI to help with the CI stuff is baffling to me. Are we witnessing just another ideology-driven tribal reaction on the rise?
by CaptainFever
2 subcomments
- It's sad that the outrage posts got hundreds of comments while this article, from the maintainer explaining the CVEs and test suites, only has this singular comment and is already on the second page.
A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.
by ChrisArchitect
0 subcomment
- Related:
Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705
- I think he should just retire for real (from rsync) and enjoy the time, who would take all the negativity and keep going for a volunteer project like rsync.
And this has nothing to do with AI. It seems to me that a significant amount of people in IT disconnected from reality.
Go throw a couple potatoes in the ground and see them grow or whatever. Your opinion most likely wont matter nor make any difference.
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