Online code hosting services are booming with AI-generated code. Here are some stats from the recent GitHub blog. Clearly, a lot of repositories have been created since the dawn of LLMs.
Some online code hosting websites like Codeberg are against LLM generated projects and rightfully so. They believe that LLMs are negatively impacting the FLOSS environment.
Recently I had this idea of a CLI tool for video journaling and I vibe-coded it and called it vj and published it on my GitHub. This made me think whether your projects on GitHub should reflect your programming skills or not. I did not write a single line of code for this project, and I have zero clue about the architecture of the project.
These are some serious red flags for an open source project:
- I can’t review PRs or address issues without giving it to a coding agent.
- If I were to include my GitHub profile in my CV and send it to somewhere, anyone seeing this repository would implicitly imply that I coded this project on my own if I don’t explicitly mention that it was entirely written with AI.
- LLMs tend to sometimes copy-paste code from somebody else without their permission and therefore, you might be just stealing somebody else’s code!
I eventually pushed this project to my GitHub solely to help out those that might be going through things ,and I included a “Made with AI” badge on top:
I believe that nobody should hide using AI. We should be accepting that completely vibe-coding projects yields a project that you have no clue how it works to an extent, and your technical skills don’t really improve in the process of creating them.