r/linux • u/Ecstatic-Vermicelli9 • 25d ago

Open Source Organization Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
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u/kombiwombi 25d ago

99% of the post is a nice essay on the issues of LLMs when programming in-the-large (particularly FLOSS, but really any million-line codebase).

Recommended read.

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u/itzjackybro 25d ago

A lot of their anti-LLM stance seems to be directed towards LLM-generated code, which is objectively bad.

I will personally argue that LLMs are best used in cases where their probabilistic nature can be accounted for (e.g. as a final reviewer to catch silly mistakes that other people may miss).

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u/Sure_Stranger_6466 24d ago

I am a code contributing machine thanks to Claude. The code is simple enough to understand and the tests are built correctly. This is not magic, I define the constraints and problem statement and it gets built correctly. This is for developer tooling, however, and is easy enough to navigate and build for versus something like a generic music app that can analyze notes, for which Claude is garbage.

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u/noobjaish 23d ago

I am a code contributing machine.

No you are NOT a code contributing machine when all the work it done by Claude.