<![CDATA[rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups]]>rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

36 commits by ‘tridge and claude’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EAo9jo-U4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260603-rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups - podcast

time: 7 min 34 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups/ - blog post

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d4c05e13-a1c5-45e2-90de-47985a25ce40/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backupsRSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 05:13:57 GMTWed, 03 Jun 2026 21:27:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:06:42 GMT]]>@lproven no no it's a week to move house!

i suppose Glasgow is *technically* closer to Man than London is

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A colleague did this...

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'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project

Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: 'I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'.'

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/lproven/statuses/116692198625105480https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/lproven/statuses/116692198625105480Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:15:39 GMT]]>@davidgerard Should have come over here. We can lend a sofa.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/lproven/statuses/116692021360050508https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/lproven/statuses/116692021360050508Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:15:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:28:28 GMT]]>@lproven considering I'm having a week or so off ...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691835841513079https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691835841513079Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:28:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:01:31 GMT]]>@davidgerard It's the Isle of Man TT Races this week and I have a week off. (I've been marshalling, in between the rain storms.) After a visit to London for the Ubuntu Summit, so I've been out for nearly 10 days. Bad timing, both of Canonical and the race organisers, I'm sure you'll agree.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/lproven/statuses/116691729905221712https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/lproven/statuses/116691729905221712Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:01:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:15:53 GMT]]>@davidgerard nice summary, and good luck with the moves. 🤞

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.ivor.org/users/ivor/statuses/116691550468032702https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.ivor.org/users/ivor/statuses/116691550468032702Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:15:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:57:04 GMT]]>@davidgerard @dysfun @lproven yeah the problem is not that he doesn't use pytest, if he thinks that's not good for his purposes, so be it. Rather the problem is his tests are shit.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chx.contact/users/chx/statuses/116691476450927742https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chx.contact/users/chx/statuses/116691476450927742Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:57:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:55:52 GMT]]>@davidgerard yeah but it's a very common trope, so I just assumed he must be coming from a similar intuition, and that if he'd spent another minute formulating his claim...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.acm.org/users/nobody/statuses/116691471748876443https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.acm.org/users/nobody/statuses/116691471748876443Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:55:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:52:50 GMT]]>@nobody you know that's not the claim that claim is making

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691459830878861https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691459830878861Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:52:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:52:46 GMT]]>@davidgerard @lproven "scoop me, you bastards"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116691459547051448https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116691459547051448Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:52:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:52:21 GMT]]>@dysfun @lproven and unlike my video audience, could cover jonny on the insanely shitty tests clearly and the disparity between tridge's confident assertions and actually looking at the awful new code

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691457881073309https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691457881073309Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:52:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:50:38 GMT]]>@davidgerard @lproven i would not imagine that el reg miss an opportunity to snark here.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116691451117588963https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116691451117588963Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:50:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:48:44 GMT]]>cc @lproven surprised the closest to press coverage of this is osnews and then me, I'd think this is your bag

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691443681366953https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116691443681366953Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:48:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:04:54 GMT]]>@davidgerard

> > if human intelligence is just finer grained stochastic prediction as well.
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> Yeah, we do know, it isn’t

Mmmnaaaah, I agree with you on virtually everything else, but I'd argue that all of the circumstantial evidence we've got suggests that "human reasoning" must be "iterative plagariasm" perturbed by environment inputs after all.

A model as naive as a modern LLM being able to reproduce a surprising chunk of human work, even w/ some generalization, only supports the case...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.acm.org/users/nobody/statuses/116691271303197636https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.acm.org/users/nobody/statuses/116691271303197636Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:04:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:35:44 GMT]]>@davidgerard this has been causing log memory cascades for me. Need to find time to switch to openrsync.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116660985003036425/statuses/116689741061341298https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116660985003036425/statuses/116689741061341298Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:35:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups on Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:40 GMT]]>@davidgerard

Good balance between the social struggles of being a free software maintainer, people not being happy about your choices, and the problem that real resources need to be available to keep important software maintained.

And good luck on your move!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://timeloop.cafe/users/alienghic/statuses/116688659418857385https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://timeloop.cafe/users/alienghic/statuses/116688659418857385Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:40 GMT