Good. Instagram is filled with them to the point you can't tell what's real and what's not.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2026
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It’s about source code contributions. I’m pretty lazy sometimes about following post links, sometimes I worry about articles full of ads and other nonsense. But to not read the actual content of a relatively short text post is a level of laziness I have not yet achieved.
Ooo, I've never heard of Loops. I did try Pixelfed but found it way too cumbersome to be usable, at least fo rme.
In case anyone else was also confused by this: this is about code, not content.
Still a big deal
Hell yeah!
How would they know though? If I use Claude to make a contribution and tweak some things, it would be impossible to know unless I actively tell them I used Claude when generating my code?
"How would they know if my contribution is actually compatible with their open source license? I could just contribute code from an incompatible license, or proprietary codebase, without telling anyone." This was supposedly an actual argument against FOSS licenses back in the days. Yeah, you can't be 100% sure, but: You made your intent clear. And that's honestly what most people care about. Then all you need to do is do some rudimentary checks for quality and maybe do a quick vibe-check (heh) on the person contributing.
Okey thank you. My question was an actual question, if there was like a "tell" or something! :D
There's dozens.
Large commits, over documentation, and not being able to answer questions about the OR are good starts usually.
Prob banning ppl from running agents that are automatically pushing to github and spamming all day
If you've seen a typical GenAI pull request, it's blatantly obvious. If it has been curated well, sure it's probably not feasible to know, but "slop" is easy to tell, and the target users have very slop contributions.
Well yes it is obivous if it is vibecoded usually, but if you use it as a tool you write most of it by hand or have it help out with certain functions etc. I hope you get my point! :D
It's impossible, I'll never understand why anti ai repos draw such a hard line instead of saying hey we won't even look at 1000+ LOC PRs or design reworks with no discussion.
Both of those are pretty reasonable policies that will kill most of the fly by AI requests.
Yes, and I do agree with this.
If it's not possible to know if a contribution is AI and it's a good contribution, it doesn't matter much. And if it's bad there's no point in discussing if it is AI.
They won't...
Knowing piefed they were using AI, got called out, and are now "banning" it for the optics.
It would be worse if they actually believed it, but they probably don't.
Pixelfed not piefed, fyi
well that was quick.
Seems to be the standard.
Public statement: "AI is coming!"
3 days later
Redaction statement: "We heard you!"
Clearly, they were trying it on for size; see if the shit will stick. It's that or they don't use the internet or read news about it
did they do a public statement? i thought someone spotted dansup adding it in the log.
Good.