Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1279028/codeberg-bans-vibe-coded-projects

Relevant .

blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

I get it, but determining and moreso verifying code is mostly generated is so intractable that this will likely not do anything practically. Well, perhaps it will discourage some disclosure.

I don’t think anyone expects to catch every vibe coded project that might end up on the site. It’s seems to be about nurturing specific direction for their community, giving admins clear rules on this issue and making their decisions easier in case they do find (or get a report about) a clearly AI “led” project.

Even if vibe coder manages to stick around, they can’t be sure their projects won’t disappear at random due to the new rules. Might be enough to prevent some of them from using the site.

And: false positives? How much fun is it to go to clone your repo and find it locked because something (probably an AI algorithm) decided your project was “vibe coded”?

Don’t ask me. I have nothing to do with Codeberg and I’m not involved in the process itself, I’m just speculating. I would assume that if they’re against hosting AI projects they won’t try to hunt for them using AI screening and stick to a honour system + reporting instead but I know nothing about Codeberg’s inner workings to say for certain.

There will probably be more info on that once the official announcement drops so I guess we’ll see.

The Codeberg team seems crazy solid, or so I feel. I have all my repos there except one which isn’t open source.