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Of course it’s not necessary. I’m a way-beyond-senior dev who laughed at LLMs up until a few months ago when trusted friends, whose competence is not in question, told me they got good usage out of them.

I decided to challenge my convictions and sat down and took the time to learn how to use LLM assistants (I tried everyting from full vibe coding to manual gatekeeping of suggestions).

Now I use them for my own personal projects, and I’m much more productive (for various reasons - but one is that the initial friction of oh yet another thing I have to learn just to do X is much lower. I have no boss telling me what to do, and I select my projects myself. If they didn’t bring any benefits I wouldn’t use them.

That’s my personal view as well and so all apps I write are “licensed” as CC0. Other maintainers are taking a different view.

Having a policy against bad apps is fine - but that’s not what this policy says.

It’s trivial to write a good app using LLM aids - but that new app won’t have such a history.

That’s … incredibly stupid. It will also make Flathub completely irrelevant shortly since app developers won’t change what they’re doing just because Flathub throws a hissy fit.

/had an LLM-assisted PR merged into an open source project yesterday

Best I can do is just point to source code written by an old colleague and friend of mine from back in the day: https://sourceforge.net/p/qbubblemp/code/HEAD/tree/

I wrote system apps and UI frameworks and it’s 25 years ago so I don’t want to pretend to remember too much :D

ex-Symbian employee/developer here:

Symbian/Epoc C++ is vastly different from modern C++. Enjoy yourself, as long as you are ok with learning a “dead” eco system where a lot of the things you learn aren’t useful on other more modern platforms.

Since absolutely no one has studied the tech before commenting.

It’s:

• Open source
• Privacy protecting

Carry on.

Pre-ordered. Europe needs phones not using US operating systems.

It’s a list from 2021 and as a cybersec researcher and Jellyfin user I didn’t see anything that would make me say “do not expose Jellyfin to the Internet”.

That’s not to say there might be something not listed, or some exploit chain using parts of this list, but at least it’s not something that has been abused over the last four years if so.

It’s not just “based on”. Element and Fluffychat are two clients that use Matrix and are fully interoperable.

(I’m sure you know, but I’m not sure it’s obvious for potential newcomers)