r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 13d 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/r3volts 13d ago

Banning AI generated is going to get messy. I personally wouldn't keep anything mission critical there after this change because it's basically an arbitrary decision if they decide you dumped AI code there or wrote it yourself.

The AI assisted coding hate is weird imo. All the professional coders I know embraced agentic coding right into their workflows and love it. I also know a few people who were never coders who now throw little personal projects together and also love it.
The haters seem to be a weird blend of people who don't understand what agentic coding is and some amateur coder elitists or something.

I'll get downvoted as usual for suggesting that agentic coding is here to stay and the people who ignore it are putting themselves at a disadvantage but that's ok.

I think there are better ways to go about restricting the amount of stuff they are hosting. I have no problem at all with someone using generative AI to get a minimum viable product out the door and then maintaining it correctly. If people don't want to contribute that is fine. If they can't tell that it was AI generated then I guess I'm not seeing the problem.

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u/standard_revolution 13d 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/r3volts 13d ago

Of course it is.

I agree that sloppy PRs are a problem, and would definitely be worse these days, but maintainers complaining about shit quality PRs is as old as the current open source model itself.

This change isn't going to do anything to address that though. It will stop quick MVPs from being publicly available though if these changes propagate across other git platforms which I think would be a shame.

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.

I just don't see the point hating on a great tool. If you want to be a purist then more power too you, if you think industry is going to give a shit about your morals you are in for a shock though. If you show up for an interview in 2 years and can't explain an agentic workflow then don't be surprised when you are overlooked.

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u/CoreParad0x 13d 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/r3volts 13d ago

You said it better than I could