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New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code (www.phoronix.com)
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The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code.

Due to the growing number of GNOME Shell extensions looking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it's now prohibited. The new rule in their guidelines note that AI-generated code will be explicitly rejected

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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just an example:

I'm a programming student. In one of my classes we had a simple assignment. Write a simple script to calculate factorials. The purpose of this assignment was to teach recursion. Should be doable in 4-5 lines max, probably less. My coed decided to vibe code his assignment and ended up with a 55 line script. It worked, but it was literally %1100 of the length it needed to be with lots of dead functions and 'None->None(None)' style explicit typing where it just simply wasn't needed.

The code was hilariously obviously AI code.

Edit: I had like 3/4 typos here

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not all AI code is so obvious though. Especially if you give it detailed instructions on what to do exactly. It could be very hard to tell in some cases