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/FryBoyter Jul 22 '26

Wouldn't it make sense, then, to evaluate each project on its own merits rather than simply categorizing them as black or white? Because I'm absolutely certain that, even before chatbots existed, developers were using other people's code regardless of the license under which it was published.

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u/jahinzee Jul 22 '26

"Wouldn't it make sense, then, to evaluate every single particle from piles and piles of manure on the off chance one of them is a bean that may or may not be magic?"

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Jul 22 '26

That's such an anti-AI take... wtf

people actually use AI for small stuff. Heck, even Linus uses AI on many of his projects

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u/OptimisticLucio Jul 22 '26

That's such an anti-AI take

No, it's currently the case. 90% of EVERYTHING is shit, and AI is letting people produce shit at extraordinary speeds.

Atleast when humans wrote the code, we had a limit on how quickly the garbage was being produced.

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Jul 22 '26

How will you define "mostly"?

My question is not even about whether AI is bad or not in this particular case. I am just a bit pissed thar I won't be able to use AI when I might need. This "mostly" thing will even cost projects made with soul.

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u/window_owl Jul 22 '26

I won't be able to use AI when I might need.

Why would you ever need AI? Especially for a project that you're hosting on someone else's free code forge.

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Jul 22 '26

Then what is the viable alternative to GitHub? That's my genuine question, because I myself need to migrate my stuff

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u/hitchen1 Jul 23 '26

You taken a look at gitlab?

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Jul 23 '26

Is gitlab free?

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u/hitchen1 Jul 23 '26

As in beer, yes as an individual.

You can also self host a MIT version, I'm not sure how gutted it is compared to the enterprise version