Jeremy Soller 🦀

I am in the incredibly privileged position to say no to LLM use in my projects. I have heard from many people who are being forced to use LLMs for their programming jobs regardless if they want to or if they are well suited to the task.

SAG-AFTRA and WGA were able to fight this for other disciplines, it is quite a coincidence (ironic?) that software developers are both responsible for and suffering from widespread LLM deployment

I understand everyone is under pressure, and I wish you all the best. Especially if we disagree on things, I am often wrong.

I feel that everything I had hoped to gain from writing FLOSS is slowly but surely eroding. My freedom and joy are being soaked up by intense pressures, both internal to FLOSS and external.

Software will get worse before it gets better. Burnout could push maintainers to lower their standards and embrace "AI". Hardware will continue to complexify.

Where does this end?

US courts consider code to be fully written by an LLM with limited human interaction to be public domain: https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf. Public domain is NOT open source as defined by the OSI: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source. Nor is it free software as defined by the FSF or GNU: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html. Accepting these works could make software licenses unenforceable in the US, regardless if they are FLOSS or not.

LLM slop is just one part of the broader systemd/Linux sloperating system.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md

Redox OS has added a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy to our CONTRIBUTING.md: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

IF I WANTED CLAUDE TO CHANGE MY CODE I WOULD ASK IT MYSELF, I DON'T NEED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE PROJECT TO ASK CLAUDE TO MAKE CHANGES THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND