Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
> I don't know what actually happened in the rsync world, but who would
> download and compile upstream rsync for a backup for crying out loud?
> 
> Did rsync _actually_ break? Did they actually do a release with the "broken"
> code? Or did that only affect people running their backups from git head?

It was released, and it was to fix an urgent set of security
vulnerabilities.  It only broke for people who used an uncommon
configuration that wasn't caught by the old regressioh test suite, and
the *new* regression test suite, which was the one which was
implemented using LLM.

Tridge was using one LLM to create a new regression test suite
(because he knew the old wasn't really up to snuff), and he double
checked by asking (a) reviewing the code himself, and (b) asking a
second LLM model to check the test suite from problems.

The LLM was not to create the bug fix, it was to create a test suite.

The new test suite has since been improved, but Tridge was in a hurry
because this was a security fix.

Cheers,

						- Ted