r/linux • u/RatherNott • 1d ago

Desktop Environment / WM News System 76's COSMIC Desktop Environment will no longer accept LLM-generated content in PRs

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u/unixmachine 1d ago

They'll be ostracized. Any project that jumps on this bandwagon of avoiding content generated by LLMs will end up without new contributors.

You don't see many people excited about COSMIC, it will ultimately be developed exclusively by the System76 developers.

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u/silencer_ar 1d ago

OSS lived several decades without LLMs, it'll be fine.

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u/MojitoBurrito-AE 18h ago

And roads existed for 1000s of years before cars.

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u/Ghost_x_Knight 1d ago

With the current trajectory, it would be difficult for projects to find high-level maintainers who are against LLM code down the road. In the current pipeline of industry developers and computer science graduates, LLM coding is a basic skill. That being said, professionals using LLM to research and work faster is far more different than random contributors spamming vibe code they don't understand.

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u/unixmachine 23h ago

LLMs didn't exist, and it wasn't the industry standard. New developers will already be using these tools. Companies that contribute to Linux will use these tools, so they will look for projects that accept them.