This is one of the problems with relying on AI… it can produce an overwhelming amount of content with errors and inaccuracies throughout. If you don’t review and know the content yourself, you won’t know what it got wrong.

Yep, and this induces anyone who wants to review the resulting slop to need to turn to AI as well to even deal with the amount (or dismiss as a whole).

AI is a viral infection on software development.

As was said: they are not discussing ideas with Claude. Claude can not discuss ideas. This is vibecoding and trying to gaslight us on it under “b-b-but it’s a thinking machine, bro! We are at the singularity!”

Their comments on the bug tracker issue regarding staying on non-AI versions are however rather worrying, and they’ve ignored the issue completely, burying their heads in the sand.

As I said in the also-shared:

So yes, I use Claude quite a bit while developing xfwl4. I don’t vibe-code

Those two sentences are mutually exclusive.

I’m sad to hear that I might have to drop XFCE. Or, at least, stay in the X11 version of it.

Oh! I might check up how the repo is doing during the weekend, might merit an upgrade once the next major (3.5 if I’m getting my numbers right) comes around.

Don’t sweat it (yet) and just lock it in your package manager. If you are on Debian, the last reasonable versions can be apt get from snapshots.debian.org and then just apt pin / apt mark hold those.

I don’t remember the exact bug but just search for “data loss” and/or “changed behaviour”, either it wil come up or the devs have been whitewashing their inclusion of AI and censoring discussions.

Be wary when you use rsync, to not upgrade past version 3.4.1. Later versions were vibecoded / slopcoded and cause data loss.

People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else

And Codeberg literally makes it easier for them, as you can just download or git clone Forgejo directly from them! When have we ever seen a breakup so amicable.

Sometime in the last two years, the number of people consider themselves to be programmers has at least doubled.

As per usual, normies ruin everything.

An important consideration is that the usage of “AI” aka currently using like LLMs is viral, in a worse sense than eg.: the GPL is viral, and it’s completely understandable that some hosters would prefer to avoid the community problems that that causes.

Sure, but that does not make it mandatorily Codeberg’s mission.

Yeet (deployment)

Stealing this for my next CS or engineering employment.

And zero projects today don’t use AI in any forms

Everything I do is a counterexample. Get fucked.

Did your LLM just have a spasm?

And maybe those folks who rush to downvote will realize they can just filter out the posts instead.

Sure, but IMO that’s not the point. About one half of the point of commenting on slopware posts is to make known that the use of AI is disapproved

we can vibecode one together!

Having the tags? Sure.

Making them mandatory? Only if we have 1.- an actual process to determine whether a tag is incorrectly applied (up to a respectable level of confidence) and 2.- an adequate, *enforceable+ punishment for infringers.

Back in the time when I disliked it and, to a lesser extent, AppArmor, the reason was pretty simple:

It forces services to lie to me / It gets in the way of software doing what I tell it to do.

The examples would be rather simple. Need to spin up a second instance of a database server, sure, just set up the given config file with datadir=/mount/point/second/disk/var/lib/database. Should work… Nope. Database errors out despite the directory existing and being writable and all permissions being right. Insists it’s “file permissions”. Try to look around, to no end. Then it turns out there is some secret NSA Cabal infiltrated in my server already that… for some weird reason, forces databases to be installed on /var/lib even though when that is almost full and I mounted a second disk to have more room. And thus the service lies to me, says file permissions, well I checked them several times and they were alright.

Stupid NSA cabal thing stupidly getting in the way of configuring things and adding more entrypoints you have to edit and services you have to configure just to start up a program. I want to start a database, not set up a DEFCON 1 line! Those days I was beginning to miss SQLite already…

Similar issues I had with webservers, network share servers, joysticks and gamepads, and even audio devices. Never got a clear idea of what it was, software says something like “permission error” or “not a device file” but I checked and those are alright. A long sigh, remember than when you install a new computer you have to disable SELinux and AppArmor and reboot, boom, done, everything magically works.

Fortunately things have improved a long way since, but back in the day, they were one of the most grating obstacles to me for getting friends, let alone clients, to adopt Linux.

If you don’t trust it, why use it? It’s still slop in the end, just somewhat less slopified.

Consider: either you are smarter than the tool you use, in which case it doesn’t really offer anything much, or you are dumber than the tool you use, in which case you wouldn’t be qualified to judge its results anyway.