Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

Post by olalonde » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #152

olalonde wrote: post #81

It would be cool if they just admitted that this is ideologically motivated rather than hide behind pragmatic excuses. 1) "unclear copyright status" Even if the copyright concern was legitimate (highly doubt so), Codeberg would be fully protected under safe harbor laws. 2) "little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code" Inclusion of harmful code is no more likely than human-extruded code (probably…

> Even if the copyright concern was legitimate (highly doubt so), Codeberg would be fully protected under safe harbor laws. If their mission is Free Software in some Stallman-adjacent interpretation of the idea, then it is actually quite a legitimate concern. The problem isn't that the code is illegal to possess, but that it's not Free Software, since that is entirely based on a licensing copyrighted code , and since…

Post by roundabout-host » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 11:40 AM UTC

OleksandrC wrote: post #57

timjver wrote: post #36

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That doesn't really answer the question of how they're going to detect it at scale. Ban repositories with long comments?

They could, for example: 1. Rely on users flagging suspected repos (with human moderators reviewing afterwards). 2. Deploying AI agents to evaluate repos against known AI-generated-code patterns (also with human moderators afterwards). Of course, the irony of the situation - using slop machines to fight slop.

Post by Trung0246 » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #12

guessmyname wrote: post #7

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Most people leave the “Co-authored-by: ” lines in their Git commits [1]. I’m not sure why exactly, but I suppose it's either laziness or a lack of care. Regardless, if I were Codeberg, that would be the first thing I’d detect, and then I might use a Random Forest Classifier to identify the rest. [1] https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/how-tos/commit-chan...

AGENTS.MD and CLAUDE.MD also provide easy detection avenues. Trivial measures will probably catch 70-80% or more. You don't need a 100% enforcement rate for a rule to exist, indeed there are basically no rules anywhere in the world that achieve that.

Post by m4xp » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC

peter_retief wrote: post #60

wow this is murky water, I love the abstraction of AI, I feel like the director of an orchestra creating beautiful music in code. I always resented having to write the same code over and over, now automated by AI but also support free and open software, as all knowledge should be

Post by veeti » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:35 PM UTC

lionkor wrote: post #115

veeti wrote: post #98

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Once you look at how German anti-nuclear lobbying set Europe back decades on its energy independence and made us dependent on authoritarian hellholes of the world, it all makes sense. They just want to do the same with AI.

Open source code that is AI authored is worthless. If I need an LLM authored, idk, terminal emulator, I will simply ask my AI or use one of the tens of thousands out there.