Ughhhhh someone submitted an app to appcenter that is not only obviously vibe coded because Claud is on the repo but also because there’s a lot of really big mistakes.
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@danirabbit fortunately this is going to keep happening and we are going to have to figure it out as a community how to deal with it. It's going to be a crises.
Honestly I don’t like this at all. If you want to learn to write apps please ask for mentorship and join our community there’s lot of people willing to help. But I can’t help but feel like this is a waste of my time because you’re not learning anything this way. It feels gross
I also feel like we need something in appstream so that people in the App Store can know an app was made with an LLM and avoid it
Feel free to throw your acks here: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/744
We've also now started a discussion for the appcenter submission process if we'll allow submissions to our flatpak remote that are known to contain LLM-generated code
https://github.com/elementary/appcenter-reviews/discussions/647
@danirabbit should the Linux kernel itself be included? https://lwn.net/Articles/1026558/
@danirabbit i'll be the @alatiera in this discussion and advocate for just banning anything touched by an LLM
@danirabbit was also thinking that but couldn't decide between suggesting a freeform "ai disclosure" or an OARS-like approach so we can list 'code', 'translations', 'branding'...
