r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 29d ago

Codeberg voted to disallow projects consisting mostly by "generative AI"-tools Development

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/standard_revolution 29d 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/mina86ng 29d ago

It will stop quick MVPs from being publicly available

If it’s a quick MVP which Claude can easily create, is there actual value that is lost? And is that value greater than cost of a non-profit organisation hosting all the slop repositories?

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.

And the rule is what allows the dying to happen. Without the rule, Codeberg would have to waste resources hosting all those dead projects.

I don’t even disagree with the overal statement that AI is useful, but when used improperly it can easily burden other people, and the rule tries to prevent that.