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Developer questions how much F-Droid contains AI-generated code

Debate emerges over whether code provenance matters to end users

5 Sep 15 7:00 AM · 12d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 6

commenters diverged on whether the source of code matters. alienbaby argued "If they work, does it matter?" as long as apps function as advertised and contain no malicious code, while bradley13 raised the emotional cost: "I love writing code to solve intricate problems. But knowing that a faster, and maybe better LLM solution is just a prompt away? Somehow that takes the joy out of it."

“If they work, does it matter? So long as what I paid for does what it says it does (and nothing nefarious..)”

alienbaby

_ZeD_ Student programmer and FOSS app maintainerF-Droid project Open-source mobile app repository

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