System76’s COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.
System76’s COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.
Can you elaborate?
Well, I tried to use it when it came out of beta, and it was… Well, let’s call it questionable experience. It’s, of course, just mine subjective opinion.
And about “No AI policy” - it’s a good vector, but, from my point of view, Cosmic really seems as something that could benefit a lot from more rapid development cycle. Right now I use Noctalia Shell, and it’s stunning how fast it evolves.
Calling a beta software questionable is a very questionable take
“came out of beta”, though. in the first few days, or weeks, after the official release, there was extensive discussion about the issues and shortcomings of Cosmic, if I recall correctly
edit: whoops, I was too slow
I tried 1.0
It wasn’t beta. But it really felt like it.
I only started using Cosmic when Pop_OS! 24.04 came out so I never touched it before it was a stable release so I have no opinions before that. My initial impressions were that it was good enough to try as a daily driver because the things that were missing, like accessibility options, weren’t things I personally needed. Did it need work, yes. Is it a disaster of a DE, No.
When it comes to the AI issue, I’m a bit torn. I think AI can be a great tool for development. The problem is having the opportunity for some slop kiddies to constantly throw a program into chaos because they put Hermes into YOLO mode. A "No AI"policy is a way to prevent problems but I don’t think it’s necessarily a perfect one.
It’s a pretty terrible one. AI is staying part of development forever.
There are problems, and there are better and worse ways to use it. Saying “no ai at all” isn’t much different than saying you can’t Google or use stack overflow. It’s pretty similar to the “don’t blindly paste code from stack overflow” problem in steroids.
The mass of ai slop contributions is a problem, yes. We need a better solution than just “let’s go back to how it was before”. We ain’t going back, and it’s a lazy fix.
That said, AI code used responsibly is nearly to completely indistinguishable from human code. This may serve to dissuade honest developers.
really odd way to argue a point