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[–] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

some telltale signs to look for in git repos:

  • .claude, .cursor
  • AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md
  • the user claude has contributed (on github); this is especially easy to notice if you’ve blocked it, so i recommend you do that
  • CONTRIBUTING.md mentions that ai-generated contributions are allowed

this list has a bunch of those stained projects, with receipts. but be warned: you will be severely disappointed in many projects you used to respect

there is also this list which contains projects that have stated that they do not allow slop!

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    also look for those in the .gitignore file

    edit: jesus christ bitwarden is on that naughty list! a password manager! psychotic.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why is Godot Engine in both lists?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago*

    godot does not allow entire ai-generated contributions, so it’s in the ai-free list

    but it does allow ai assistance (like if it just writes one line for you), and has received contributions by claude before, so it’s in the slop list

    yea those lists aren’t perfect

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago*

    Eeh idk, it depens on how they use it; Ex: I mainly use claude code to do some debugging or some boring stuff (that i could do 100% by myself but would take too long)

    But if someone use it for vibe coding then he should go to hell

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Did neovim get enshittened when i wasn't looking?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Microsoft Visual Studio or...

    Nope. Couldn't do it. Couldn't keep a straight face.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Helix or hell no

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    mcedit, clearly

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    nobody using butterflies to flip bits?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Last change to all files was made 3 months ago

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  • IBM 029 or bust!

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Unpopular opinion, but I'm coming to the realization that I don't really care if FOSS projects are experimenting with and leaning into AI. In most cases I am not donating and simply enjoying a product for free. I am no programmer I put trust in their code before, all I can do is continue to do the same. Now, paid software feels different. And I don't mean donations, I mean if Autodesk started pumping out slop (which I don't doubt is happening) then that feels far worse.

    Plus, I've gotten an insane amount of utility out of Claude as a regular dude. If I knew what I was doing a little more, I imagine that would feel pretty cool.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I'm with you, as a maintainer of some small FOSS projects with very limited time, a lot of these complaints seem entitled and uninformed views by people that don't contribute any code of their own.

    I'm sad that the internet doesn't seem to make a difference between fully vibecoded low effort low quality projects, and experienced developers using GenAI in a very restricted, carefully reviewed way. Even further, some only use it as an additional code review method. If overburdened maintainers use it to get a leg up on delivering features while keeping the quality level up, that should be celebrated and not punished.

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