"Oh you're upset about a Nazi tattoo..."

I mean kinda? The kinda people who get nazi tattoos are the kinda people who threaten my existence you know. Has that occurred to you? But also, your reformed soldier boy story doesn't hold a lotta water when he did *checks notes* four tours and then worked for Blackwater. You realize that right?

The fact is, a lot of you folks are an absolute fucking sucker for a solider boy with a sruffy beard, wearing a trucker hat. You fucking NEED to believe in that redemption story. And no, I don't know why - because I'm the kinda people that gets merc'd by guys with nazi tattoos and Blackwater experience.

You don't seem to get that if you keep pushing these guys forward as a left wing savior, you're gonna have to do this one alone. Marginalized ppl will RUN FROM YOU.

Anyway, one thing that jumped out of Tridge's recent riposte to all this is that he knew about regressions that weren't covered by the test suites, and that's not in the release notes, and he shipped anyway.

I have a set of feelings about generative AI, but I guess this newfound "velocity" makes it pretty easy to convince yourself that major, maybe-breaking changes are ... no big deal. Just a patch, damn the downstream, ship another one and reliable semver ends up more genAI roadkill, I guess.

One notably modern political tactic is the conservative efforts to tell you something is an "entitlement" so they can scold you into giving it up, but these aren't "entitlements". These are baseline expectations in a functioning society.

Oh, so what, you think you deserve to just _drink_ whatever comes out of the tap whenever you _want,_ like some sort of _special fancy person_?

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

Not only that, but I expect to get notified well ahead of time if that might change.

also, do you think what me and the other people spreading the unfortunate news that another piece of our software infrastructure has become slop really want is an angry mob? fuck no. I just want the damage to stop. I want to be able to trust and enjoy software again. I want maintainers to stop going mask-off as assholes whose personality has become much worse after Claude pumped their head full of air and bullshit. I want all of the well-documented visible and hidden damage caused by LLMs to stop.

yes I’m fucking angry, most people should be. and if you’re going to ignore our advice and do damage to us anyway, I guess all of us together are going to look like an angry mob when the pain makes us flinch and scream.

big “it’s your fault for being dramatic after I hit you” energy, especially given the destruction inherent to turning an extremely popular community project and all of its previous contributions into broken slop vs the uhh damage??? of people being upset

it’s especially rich given that we’ve just seen a bunch of LLM boosters throw a fucking tantrum when a maintainer put up even the most minimal amount of resistance

and like no, these aren’t at all the same. the LLM boosters claimed damages and couldn’t back that up. rsync meanwhile is fucking busted and likely to get worse. only one of these parties are the victims of damages; the other party is feigning injury.

or to put this post in words that those suffering from exposure to LLMs can understand:

You’re absolutely right! It’s my fault for mouthing off, and that’s on me. Here’s what I learned from this interaction:
- You can hurt me and I can’t complain about it. 🚀
- If I try to stop you, you’ll tell me I’m the one who’s causing damage to you. 🧨 🤑