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I mean, we have no idea how tridge is using claude. I would easily give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not vibe-coding, is involved in the change (not just turning on auto-accept), and reviews the output before committing.

But it seems like everyone's immediate hot take here and on Mastodon is to assume the worst and shit on him.

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To be precise, I meant the open source as a whole, as this is what the parent poster mentioned. I don't know about Tridge, I would review the changes first to see what happened there.

For rsync in general, I would say that the important value is the trust in it not breaking my data, more so than other projects. That trust can be broken in different ways, AI or not, and the means are of a secondary concern. I hope this gets sorted out soon.

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