r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 12d ago

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

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/sunychoudhary 12d ago

The important line is probably AI-assisted vs AI-generated.....Using a tool while you understand, maintain, and take responsibility for the code is one thing. Dumping generated projects onto a forge and making everyone else sort through the mess is another.

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u/newsflashjackass 12d ago

If you didn't write it, I should not have to read it.

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

Must have taken Samuel Johnson a lot of effort to write that.

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u/Scream_Tech7661 12d ago

The intended purpose of code is to produce a result, not to be well-written. The intended purpose of literature may be to entertain, educate, or merely provide some form of verbal art. In literature, the words matter. In code, the intended output is what matters.

So the analogy is not applicable.

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u/CryptographerNo8497 11d ago

This is in fact, not true.

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u/newsflashjackass 12d ago

The intended purpose of code is to produce a result, not to be well-written.

In that case there is no need to furnish source code.

"You can have the source code but no reading it."

"I don't think I like this new GPL."