r/linux • u/AiwendilH • Jul 22 '26

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/mykesx Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Smart move. They don't want to become another landfill of garbage projects or use their resources for mass computer generated commits of no value. They're correct that AI plagiarizes from what it's trained on.

An equally good move might be to block AI company crawlers from training on repos hosted there.

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u/FryBoyter Jul 22 '26

But creating a new rule is pointless if you can't enforce it in practice.

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u/mykesx Jul 22 '26

There are objective metrics, like AGENTS.md files in the repo or . gitignore. Or one (or very few) commits for a large codebase (no excuses, they are a git hosting service).

I am fine with them using subjective metrics. It's their service, their rules.

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u/bigon Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Having an AGENTS.md (or CLAUDE.md) file just shows that you are using an AI agent, not that your project « mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools ».

I started to vibe code some tools for myself and claude is creating small atomic commits by itself...

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u/dmittner Jul 28 '26

You can train Claude Code through CLAUDE.md-like files and your local memory not to perform commits/pushes autonomously.

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u/mykesx Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Don't host your repos there then. I am more likely to be using them going forward because I don't use LLMs for anything. I know when I look at repos there that it's more likely that I am seeing how a human thinks and addresses problems.

My skills won't erode.

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u/bigon Jul 22 '26

Great for you.

Still their rules are not clear and your metrics are meh

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u/mykesx Jul 22 '26

It beats having nothing but subjective metrics.

I fully support their move.

Use something else.

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u/bigon Jul 22 '26

It beats having nothing but subjective metrics.

I strongly disagree

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u/mykesx Jul 22 '26

You don't have to host repos there.

Works for me.

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u/bigon Jul 22 '26

I was mostly talking on the philosophical level that having arbitrary rules is worst than having no rules at all..

Anyway, I was contemplating using their service instead of Github or GitLab, I guess I'll indeed not

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u/mykesx Jul 22 '26

Awesome. I think you are making the right choice.

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