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.
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.
Have you read maintainer guidelines for a major distro, like Debian's [0]? I would wager there is between 0 - 1% chance that a vibecoder would be willing or able to meet these.
I took an agricultural ecology class in college in the early 90s and the professor predicted this would happen. I'd talk to farmer relatives and they'd get all angry and tell me nobody can tell me what to do on my land. More recently I'd talk to people about this and they'd tell me no way they'd eat less beef or stop drinking almond milk. Humans are idiots.
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