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.

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.

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.

How do you even define that?

those who can’t do, teach

XMPP is all the goodies of IRC but modernized for the current age, and it’s not a nu-protocol like Matrix so it’s quite lightweight to host or service.

You start as a bully when a kid, then grow up to be a fash / nazi, then they give you a badge and the ability to institutionalize your hate.

Almost sounds like a pejorative when you say it like that! :p

Wonderment is cool. The key is to know to keep it as you learn more truths about the world.

as we use AI to find vulnerabilities faster (hopefully) than bad actors can use AI to find vulnerabilities.

Oh small, simple child: who do you think has the better access to AI in the first place?

Only if efforts can transfer over, which means devs currently standing on the paid side of Google!Android would have to move over to develop Linux mobile and develop for Linux mobile.

but they have promised to

Like they promised other things in the past?

Yeet (deployment)

Stealing this for my next CS or engineering employment.