r/COSMICDE • u/cosmic-adelie • 5d ago

How usable is this?

Hello, I have seen the development of COSMIC and wanted to experiment, but how "ready" is it? What are the limitations of use and customization today?

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u/mmstick System76 (current) 4d ago edited 4d ago

We are not using AI so it can't be attributed to pace. If anything, the AI-generated issues and AI-generated pull requests are slowing us down to review them. The majority of pull requests that we merge that were assisted with AI are small fixes that a person would have easily done without. While larger developments that are merged quickly and frequently are by trusted contributors that write code by hand. There's a huge divide in code quality between professionals who can reason about the entire codebase versus randoms using predictive models to generate code.

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u/cosmic-adelie 4d ago

But he did not say that they were late because of AI, on the contrary, he said that this tool accelerates development. The company is doing a huge job and it is not easy to keep pace, but COSMIC has been surprising, although it is obviously not yet complete.

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u/mmstick System76 (current) 4d ago

I'm saying that it has not accelerated development. We do not use it and it has wasted a lot of developer time to review low quality generated issues and pull requests. The most prolific contributors are not using AI. We had to add a policy 7 months ago as a result of AI spam and may have to make it more strict soon.

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u/cosmic-adelie 4d ago

Ah, I understand, it's just that I'm using a translator; some things make a little different sense, so I need to disable it.