Emmmmm, the fuck is that?
Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software #929
I didn’t expect to realise that rsync is maintained by one person, who decides to vibe code their own very popular project.
Some comments from my research on that issue.
Rsync has to be one of the worst spaghetti projects I’ve worked with. It’s an incredibly decent tool, but it’s code is an exact opposite of what you’d expect. And it’s written in C. I’m not surprised letting Claude loose on it for roughly 2 months already caused visible breakage. The question is, with it being very obviously a bad idea, can the maintainer still be trusted if he let something like this happen?
26k code changes in 2 months….. rsync was 67k LOC as of 236417c (latest not obviously vibecoded commit it seems?)