Meanwhile they couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.

Ah, yes, now the angry mob who never contributed to Flathub will be accusing us of bribery because we changed the LLM policy to require full disclosure instead of a blanket ban.

This community is fucking hopeless.

I don’t hate Python per se as I’d need to be insane to have such a strong feeling towards a programming language. It’s great for prototyping, however, I tend to productionize prototypes instead of writing things again in something “serious” as I’m not particularly skilled in anything else.

I should probably pick up Go or Rust for real but my monke brain refuses to while it can happily mash more Python together until the regrets come down the road.

Some guy just decided to effectively fork entire Flathub infra to publish a glorified web view for a WhatsApp webview app and a card game, both vibe coded. Slopfest is going well.

We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.

https://github.com/flathub-infra/documentation/commit/992f57b30de98ddbd5e80959e9672998c83c8c97

I've had some reservations about it, so the wording before that commit was relatively milder. I know it's an unpopular opinion on the Fediverse, but I do think LLMs are inevitable, and the reality is that you can expect less organically grown code as time goes on. I believe it can be a useful tool in and outside FOSS; I hoped we will see a larger number of apps where authors made some effort beyond prompting an agent. Meanwhile, the number of unpleasant interactions I've had with entitled submitters acting as if they were bestowing their brilliant software upon us idiots who are rejecting it went through the roof in the last month. I'm tired.

As always, we are not applying this retroactively, so any vibecoded apps which were already published will remain available.

GitLab could have won by not doing anything at all but they would rather be renaming issues to work items, adding a dumb split view for the issue tracker, and working on other misfeatures no one asked for, anything but fixing 5+ years old bugs and half-assed functionality. And this doesn’t even touch the layoffs and “AI first” pivot.

I'm old and grumpy, and I don't see what jujutsu solves.

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?