Yeah I'm more thinking about the four wheel drive Gen 4.

They'll never be allowed to compete head to head. It's like Formula E, that will always be enough different from Formula 1 so as to never show what a pure matchup would look like.

Of course it's not necessary. I'm a way-beyond-senior dev who laughed at LLMs up until a few months ago when trusted friends, whose competence is not in question, told me they got good usage out of them.

I decided to challenge my convictions and sat down and took the time to learn how to use LLM assistants (I tried everyting from full vibe coding to manual gatekeeping of suggestions).

Now I use them for my own personal projects, and I'm much more productive (for various reasons - but one is that the initial friction of oh yet another thing I have to learn just to do X is much lower. I have no boss telling me what to do, and I select my projects myself. If they didn't bring any benefits I wouldn't use them.

That's my personal view as well and so all apps I write are "licensed" as CC0. Other maintainers are taking a different view.

Having a policy against bad apps is fine - but that's not what this policy says.

It's trivial to write a good app using LLM aids - but that new app won't have such a history.

That's ... incredibly stupid. It will also make Flathub completely irrelevant shortly since app developers won't change what they're doing just because Flathub throws a hissy fit.

/had an LLM-assisted PR merged into an open source project yesterday

It's similar to being an assembler coder when higher level languages with compilers came. No need for management purging, you'll simply be competing for a smaller segment of assigments.

I don't know of a single developer that has actually used LLM aids say there's no benefit to them. Those that refuse do so for some other convictions and don't really know the difference between LLM aiding in tasks and full on yolo vibe coding.

Which I've done, and not a single person has looked them up. The reason for that is that no one here is actually interested in the subject - they just cannot accept their feels about humans being special snowflakes not having any support in the science.

Was your cognitive dissonance slightly alleviated by what you believe to be a smart comeback?

hugs