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by bwfan123 5 days ago
Software is only as healthy as that of the mental-models of its "human" maintainers. This was implicit in the writings of Peter Naur (programming as theory building) and the Fred Brooks (mythical man month) ages ago. AI as a tool can assist just as IDEs and linters have assisted. But eventually the mental models of the human maintainers is the gate and bottleneck. Applying this to rsync, its maintainer would need to foster and grow other human contributors to eventually become maintainers so that the human mental models are carried forward.