u/Dimenzio_

I welcome everyone to another post in my series of "this place doesn't wanna host that much slop anymore". Today, I get to talk about Modrinth, the second largest platform for hosting user made Minecraft content (mainly mods) after Curseforge, and is seen as a more open, community driven alternative to it. (Even though it was sold recently too as far as I know).

Now the restrictions are pretty much in line with stuff we have seen from other platforms such as Codeberg recently (e.g. no fully AI generated content, no AI images allowed, assistance requires disclosure), still another stroke in the seemingly rising tide of sites that really can't have any idiot slop out a project in a time where storage is really fucking expensive.

Finally, as we can do every time without fail, a look at the community (citing the modded MC sub here) is overwhelmingly positive about this change. As understandably no one wants to shift through more garbage and find that the project will be abandoned because the developer got their LLM gambling addiction pointed somewhere else this week. Sammy, this stuff ain't popular! Wario! Your company is in the PR gutter!

So, Codeberg has voted (with a 70-30 decision in favor) to ban mostly LLM generated repositories from their platform. This means no more vibecoded, spec-driven Claude/Codex/OpenClaw (ew) induced code bases are allowed to be pushed onto Codeberg.

Codeberg is a bit of a special place in comparison to other code hosting platforms (e.g. Github, Gitlab, etc...) in which it operates as an "Eingetragener Verein" (German legal form of a Club, like a local football club for example), meaning you can become a member an obtain voting rights in decisions such as these. Codeberg has 1085, of which 517 decided to vote on this. (This is different from the user number, which sits a little under 400k currently! You have to actively become a voting member by paying a membership fee.)

Enforcement of this rule aside, which will not be an easy task, this shows even though everyone might scream at you that every engineer loves and could never even imagine coding without their almighty LLM buddy, it seems there are spaces where this is not true, and the majority of the people contributing decided it should be like this. Alongside policies for projects such as Godot which also limit LLM code contributions, the flood isn't unstoppable. If you care for software as a craft and passion, look outside the bubble, there's people thinking just alike.

Some may have seen that unholy 1M line Bun Rust rewrite PR a few weeks ago, which of course was surely carefully written and reviewed by Claude engineers. Seems like the biggest (?) project in relation to video downloading isn't really a fan, and they're cutting support for it.

What I also find interesting is my armchair analysis of the reaction ratio which heavily weighs positive, that kinda reinforces that this stuff just isn't really popular, even among a more "positive" environment like Github. (Quotes doing heavy lifting here, but I feel in general AI is more accepted among SWE circles, and especially Github getting flooded with vibe content, I'd expect the audience to skew more heavy pro-AI than usual.)

Personally I like this step, just from the pure fact that anyone trusting code yeeted onto main on a 1M line PR should probably be cannoned into the sun. The LLM part is just the cherry on top.

Hi! Before I start, want to give a quick appreciative sentence towards Ed and the other people on this sub. I really enjoy reading the articles, posts and listen to the podcast, it's nice having a somewhat "grounded" perspective on things going on amid all the noise everywhere else.

To myself, I am European living in a medium sized city, so the whole environment I am in is certainly a little bit different than what most regulars here (who I'd assume are Americans, going by Reddit demographics) experience, on- and offline. Be it a bit inspired from the recent post of someone from China, I figured I could give some thoughts as well, though most likely not as interesting, I'd assume. Still appreciate anyone taking the time to read and interact though!

I work at a top 100-ish company in the EU, somewhat at the forefront of this whole buildout craziness, which definitely has a sizeable impact on our bottom line too. I myself am in more of an DevOps role inside the IT department, so I may not be the exact target for it, but in regards to AI adoption and usage within my space I don't see... all that much, honestly? From what I work with directly, the only really visible thing is a different kind of search engine that works sometimes. Same with the developers I work with, consult and review the code of. Most of that is kinda same as always, and doesn't seem too LLM heavy either, even though our architecture has a lot of clear guidelines you could most likely even do with LLMs in an acceptable way. (Haven't tried that though, so maybe I overlook something).

Even myself when I code (I have written a few libraries the apps get built on, as well as tools for maintenance, automation, etc.) I really don't find this stuff all that useful. Most of the time it does what I ask of it, yes, but occasionally I feel like I would have just been quicker looking stuff up myself and writing it myself. And that would have been more fun too! Even worse when one Opus request takes 1% of the Github Copilot quota, lol. The most use I get is probably from the tab complete suggestions, because that actually works with me while developing, and doesn't throw me out of the flow completely. But game-changing, 5x performance as hailed by Mr. Wario and Twitter people? Still looking for it.

My team lead has developed a data fetching application in Python using agents because he isn't that super versed in the language. Resulted in me taking one look over it and finding a critical logic issue right away, and this was finance data related!! So with the amount of refactoring and reviewing needed, I don't think this was quicker than the alternative of letting someone familiar with the technology do it.

What I found most interesting was actually the words of a new executive (ex FAANG even) coming in -> "Yes, we will build agents, most will be shit, some are probably gonna be cool" paired with a little insight about how LLMs actually work. So, a good bit more level headed than what I expect going into that. Now add to that how usually stingy this company is with IT budget and I think the agent building idea is probably gonna die somewhere along the way too.

Finally, I feel like people in general are just more chill about it. This may be a combination of me only seeing the overseas space through the online lens, but this whole stuff isn't much of a daily topic even. You see occasional news about it, and even those are more in line with "beware of disinfo" than anything. No one goes around boasting "Yes I laid off all my Devs" or similar. It's really just another (soon to be quite expensive) tool. And the usual low effort AI slop also gets more negative than positive reception.

So yeah, rambles over. Mostly just wanted to put some words down and give a few points of view from over the pond. Thanks to everyone reading for them. Remember to smile and go outside to talk to your fellow humans, it's quite fun!