I appreciated Codeberg’s new policy to prohibit “vibe-coded” projects and the reasoning provided for it.

Some people criticized it as vague, but it’s not: they’re simply banning a pattern of single-person projects generating CI/CD load and release cadence like they have a community and dozens of apps to support when they actually don’t.

The part I love most is the emphasis on collaboration: the free/libre ecosystem is about *people* making software and sharing with each other. Small ideas taken seriously are always the seed of something bigger. There’s a community at the heart.

LLM-generated code is more code and less commons, with hardly anyone maintaining it once it’s out.

Their resource argument is also pertinent and shocking: a drive they used to source for€700 costs €3,700 now (!), if it’s in stock at all. Plus, the site is already under heavy load from crawlers. This is taxing.

I think people aren’t used to seeing this kind of discourse because years of VC money subsidizing their services made everyone forget that things have a cost. Donor money is finite, and spending it all on resource-heavy projects is not what these people pay for.

The way they’re going about also seems fair: no purging, no sudden mass deletion, no massive scan of repos and naming names. It’s just a statement of intent applied gradually from here onwards. There’s ample time for people to decide this isn’t for them and move to alternatives.

I really like that this is a community project deciding what their commons is for, and making amendments to their terms to protect it.

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