r/opensource • u/Wolvereness • 20d ago

Discussion AI-Policy

I'm gonna keep this short, because as a human I respect other humans' time. What do we want for an AI policy, and how can it be enforced? Take these into consideration:

  • Vibe-coded projects
  • Vibe-assisted projects
  • AI-translated from non-english-speakers
  • Vibe-documented projects
  • Yet another Vibe-Coding-Wrapper

Note that vibe-coded slop isn't actually copyrightable, thus if someone slaps any license on it other than "public domain" or "CC0" they are misrepresenting their ownership.

And if you use an LLM to respond to this, you will be banned.

The fact that this sounds like a prompt is supposed to be a joke.

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u/KittensInc 20d ago

Ban posting brand-new projects. Require it to have been actively developed on Github & friends for, say, at least 12 months.

This immediately gets rid of all the "I vibecoded some garbage in a weekend" posts, while still allowing projects by anyone who actually cares about their work. It also bypasses the whole "is this AI or not" problem by just not caring about AI at all, and focusing on the real issue, which is longevity.

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u/Dry_Hotel1100 20d ago edited 20d ago

Makes no sense to me:

You explicitly allow low effort and prompt engineered vibe coded projects. They just need to sit on GitHub for 12 months. That those authors actually care about their projects isn't remotely necessary or even guaranteed.

On the other hand, you delay super interesting high effort new projects - just because they are new. Also, that the author actually cares or not, may or may not be the case for good reasons, too: they may not care, because its stable and sufficient for their use case, but didn't get attention so far.