jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
neuromatch.social
So rsync rewriting all the tests puts the entire project in play. Now the entire protective surface has been sloshed through a layer of probability, so the loop must accelerate. Followup PRs add more carveouts with lengthy LLM justifications that sound perfectly plausible but amount to an erosion of the protective surface. We go from cumulative improvement to a random walk.

This is like a human cell goofing up its p53 genes and deciding that being cancer is good actually.

  • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    That was a nice detailed explanation. The description of the way the tests degenerated was really worrying. Even some boosters insist the tests need careful human oversight.

  • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Has anyone run the set against the recently added coverage support? Do we know if there where test cases for the CVE behaviour before the faulty patches were added?

  • deliriousdreams@fedia.io
    43·
    2 days ago

    This is a person who requested contributors who is suffering under an onslaught of AI generated bug reports and people who know this project is in maintenance mode adding to that by making requests for QOL updates but who won’t actually contribute to the project in any way.

    Using AI because you’re overwhelmed sucks but I don’t have the ability to step up and help. If you do, then by all means.

    • o7___o7@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      Yes, people and companies should step up.

      No, the answer isn’t replacing the test suite with nonfunctional slop and running it as root.

      It’s all so amateurish and bizzare that my first thought was that someone stole the maintainer’s account. I guess nobody’s immune to the siren call of the slot machine.

      It’s unjustifiable bullshit.

      • Anisette [any/all]@awful.systemsEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        It feels like someone being overwhelmed/exhausted to the point of saying “fuck it, I don’t care anymore” and afterwards rationalising the use of LLMs as the only way they can keep up, while simultaneously falling for it’s addiction. It does demonstrate why relying on one-man projects without chipping in is risky. Unfortunately the companies that rely on it are probably also captured by the bubble so they won’t think so.