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by zzo38computer 14 days ago
My opinion is that they should not use AI/LLMs to program this, but I think this is not the proper way to make a bug report (and that the use of AI/LLMs is not necessarily itself a bug, even though I do have concerns and objections about their use).

They should post the text directly rather than a picture of the text, and it (and the issue title) should describe what is not working in the correct details (in this case, they do provide a few details; it says incremental backups are not working correctly when using multiple --compare-dest= arguments, and it mentions which version does work).

If they are also opposed to using AI/LLMs to program this, then they can mention that as well, but by itself it is not a proper bug report; they have to indicate what (if anything) is wrong with it (whether or not they used AI/LLMs to program it).

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I don't actually see much evidence the usage of AI here was an issue. I think you can obviously identify areas where the code isn't perfect. I'd blame this slightly on human prompting, slightly on AI.

But I'm not a sure a human on their own would've done better. There aren't enough resources to make the changes required.