Vibecoding isn't a crime How Distribute Your App on Linux after Flathub refusal

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jefurii•1 day ago

Sure it's not a crime but I don't want your vibe-coded shit mingling with my actual code written by actual humans.

ganelonhb•1 day ago

the question becomes, is it the end user’s decision to decide what packages they download/use or is it the repository/package manager’s responsibility to show end users which apps are allowed to be used or not.

I understand the objections to vibe coding, but for those of us who don’t care how a good tool was built (when it actually is good), this just forces us away from your favorite platform. Like it or not, this is the present and these AI tools are available. People will use them.

That said I think it’s utterly ridiculous that this article was written using AI.

sgarland•about 24 hours ago

So download the release from the tool’s Git{Hub,Lab} page.

ganelonhb•about 10 hours ago

I mean, yeah. I don’t even use flatpak. I’m really arguing against flatpak on these grounds; that I don’t believe it to be the package manager’s job to police which packages I’m allowed to see on some arbitrary ideological grounds.

Muhammad523•1 day ago

> But the policy doesn't distinguish between someone who prompted an LLM to generate an entire app in five minutes and a developer who used Copilot for autocomplete while writing 90% of the code themselves.

How is using autocomplete "Vibecoding" now? I remember y'all that the "definition" for vibecoding requires the "prompter" to not look at a single line of code

vrighter•about 15 hours ago

Autocomplete with an LSP is fine. That's always correct.

Autocomplete with an LLM, which generates snippets for you is just a lubricated version of "copy and paste back and forth between chat window and code window"

6yyyyyy•about 21 hours ago

BASED. I'm going to feel a lot better about getting software from Flathub from now on.

digitalPhonix•about 15 hours ago

> The problem is structural

> The policy is asymmetric, and that's what makes it harmful.

Well I found the problem already

wildredkraut•1 day ago

Well, there is still AppImage, this might be the right way to go with in this case.

grigio•1 day ago

Flatpak has better software isolation and support

sgarland•about 24 hours ago

> One shared that they were flagged for using Claude Code to submit the pull request, not to write the app.

Who is opening up an LLM to run git push?!

fragmede•about 24 hours ago

You don't open the LLM app specifically to run git push, you're already in the LLM app, using it to generate code, and having that app operate git as well.

graemep•1 day ago

Further evidence that Flatpack does not solve the problem of distributing applications.

https://xkcd.com/927/

grigio•about 13 hours ago

Flatpak = git, Flathub = github

graemep•about 12 hours ago

The same is true for existing Linux package managers. You could say apt = git, Debian repos = Github.

Its not entirely true either because neither git nor Github do things like dependency handling.

There are lots of alternatives to Github. Of the two alternatives to Flathub mentioned in the article, one has disappeared, and the other has all of 93 packages.

feverzsj•1 day ago

Intentional littering is a criminal offence in most places.

krater23•1 day ago

Why should Flathub accept vibecoded shit. You don't let just anyone who rings the doorbell into your house, either.

AuthAuth•1 day ago

flatpak accepts half finished game demos without a patch in years

grigio•about 13 hours ago

This is the biggest contraddiction of this times

Arodex•1 day ago

"Vibecoding isn't a crime"

Meanwhile, a few ranks away on HN:

"Big AI to humanity: drop dead"

"The End Of Upward Mobility – AI is coming for the meritocracy"

epihelix•1 day ago

One man's vibecoder is another bot's freedom fighter?

spacedcowboy•1 day ago

This is good to know. ‘I’ built a compiler for a language I call ‘xc’, similar to Objective-C but designed to be cross-platform and have less square brackets :). It can run on any of {Windows, Mac, Linux, Zynq} and produce code for any of {Windows, Mac, Linux, Zynq, WASM, iOS, Android, m68k, 6502}.

It needs no host-platform tools to compile code, so for example I have a signed binary on my iPhone, written and signed entirely on Linux.

The compiler (v 0.61, not the released v0.6) currently produces code that is between 5x and 0.5x the speed of clang when measured at -O3 on both, against ObjC code, which is pretty good for a nascent compiler. The geometric mean of 19 mini-benchmarks comes in at xc being roughly 6% faster than clang.

Since there is also a framework and gui-designer under way, I’d like to release it as more than a tar.bz2 file for Linux at some point. Flatpark would seem to be appropriate :)

1: https://compile-xc.org/

Muhammad523•1 day ago

How is this supposed to be relevant to the article we're discussing?

QuadmasterXLII•1 day ago

'I', presumably

spacedcowboy•1 day ago

Yeah, thought that was pretty obvious, alongside the “AI-friendly” flatpark. Guess I’ll be more explicit next time…

Neywiny•1 day ago

Zynq isn't an operating system? And you seem to be mixing OSs and architectures? Zynqs and I believe Versals contain both ARM (R and A) cores and a microblaze core. They can run bare metal, Linux, an RTOS, or whatever because they're just CPUs.

spacedcowboy•about 24 hours ago

Yeah “I” wrote the OS too, for the Zynq, or at least significantly extended FreeRTOS. See https://atari-xt.com

Zynq is an FPGA with dual Arm A9 cores, on one of which I run the OS, the other is earmarked for the m68k/030 emulator. There’s a hardware 6502 in fabric which has ANTIC, POKEY, and HDMI output (with audio). The OS includes a compositing window manager which uses shared memory to give each GEM window a retained-mode drawing surface.

You can see it booted up, running the emulator in either of:

Https://0x0000ff.co.uk/mov/xt/xtos-aug-11.mov

https://0x0000ff.co.uk/mov/xt/ballblazer.mov

The compiler is self-hosting, so can run on the OS on the FPGA, but this is quite long-winded an explanation so I just shortened it to Zynq.

The “I” in quotes is (for those who didn’t notice) an indication that I used an LLM to help me do all this.

Neywiny•about 8 hours ago

It's really not. Zynq-7000 can have 1 or 2 A9 cores, Zynq MPSoC can have 2 or 4 A53 cores. It sounds like what you've done is modified the freertos A9 port. It's abundantly clear that you had LLMs do this, trust me.