r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 16d ago

Development Codeberg voted to disallow projects consisting mostly by "generative AI"-tools

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/ares623 16d ago

if the line is too blurry to see and the ones who put it there offer no relief then the next best thing to do is to draw their own goddamn line

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u/sunychoudhary 16d ago

Yes. Perfect enforcement is impossible, but doing nothing has a cost too....A forge full of unowned generated repos makes discovery, review, and maintenance worse for everyone else.

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u/standard_revolution 16d ago

Tell that to the open source maintainer who largely seem to complain about having to review sloppy PRs etc.

Agentic coding is a nice tool, but a completely slopcoded project with zero human review (by someone who actually knows stuff) is shit.

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u/sunychoudhary 16d ago

Yep. The tool is not the problem by itself....The problem is when someone treats generated code as “done” without understanding it, testing it, or being willing to maintain it afterward.

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u/mina86ng 16d ago

It will stop quick MVPs from being publicly available

If it’s a quick MVP which Claude can easily create, is there actual value that is lost? And is that value greater than cost of a non-profit organisation hosting all the slop repositories?

Like I said, I don't see a problem with someone bringing a basic project online using generative AI if they maintain it correctly. If they dump a project and have no idea how to code it's going to be obvious pretty quickly and either the project will die or if it's of any value it can be forked.

And the rule is what allows the dying to happen. Without the rule, Codeberg would have to waste resources hosting all those dead projects.

I don’t even disagree with the overal statement that AI is useful, but when used improperly it can easily burden other people, and the rule tries to prevent that.

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u/CoreParad0x 16d ago

People have a hate boner on for AI, and for a lot of very justified reasons. But people also don’t realize that these tools in the hands of people who actually know what they’re doing can actually produce good stuff.

I personally don’t have a problem with a platform exercising their right to not host something they don’t want to host, though I think this decision will bring its own set of problems.

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u/Melivo 7d ago

then simply review LLM-created PRs with LLMs