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embedding-shape • today at 3:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Point out what verbatim piece of text forbids any and all usage of LLMs for coding and having that project on Codeberg?

Literally the first "informal guidelines" (subject to change of course) states:

> Projects who have an active community that cares about and maintains the software

You can use LLMs for development + fulfill this requirement, contrary to popular belief.

They want to get rid of slop projects and vibe coders, not any project that has any developer that used any LLM. But again, requires you to read through the actual text to actually get their intention here.


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IslandRebel • today at 3:41 PM

> You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/commit/96fac426a32d1ba...

I have read it. This effectively narrows down the use of AI drastically IMO. Which is what I said.

This effectively limits it to stuff like code completion and using it as a chat assistant and doing some medium level refactors.

They should have just completely banned it. As the ambiguity itself causes problems. Even if you use LLMs maybe say 25% of the time, sooner or later that means that a significant portion of your code base is AI generated.

> They want to get rid of slop projects and vibe coders, not any project that has any developer that used any LLM. But again, requires you to read through the actual text to actually get their intention here.

I am not a vibe coder (I am a software dev with almost 20 years experience) and am using Heavy LLM assistance (I am running Qwen 3.8 locally) for some of my projects. I am making sure the code output is decent, well documented, has tests etc. Sure what I am doing is something betweeen "vibe coding" and "proper development" but there would be no way for me in the few hours an evening to even get to the stage I would be at in some of them without LLM assistance.

I would not be able to use codeberg for hosting my project under their rules.