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Updated my actual-budget container today, and met with authentication failure - I am locked out of my budgets.

I turned to the github repo for troubleshoot, and.. Noticed that their commits are pretty much dominated by AI now.

At least they seem to be being up-front about their AI usage by tagging commits with the tag, but it still feels icky to me.

(As a 'bonus', their only support channel is on discord - but I guess that's the norm for many open-source projects.)

Is this fact of life now? Are most projects being written and managed by LLM nowadays? Not sure I can trust the projects nowadays.

Is there alternative budget app which does not involve LLM?

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[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Aside from fundamentalists the usage of LLMs and coding agents will increase. It's a tool in the toolbox now and many devs do or will play around with it. Some will have to learn to not overdo it; but that's nothing new and a lot of fancy technologies or frameworks along the way caused some disruptions because people jumped on the hype train without applying some caution or critical thinking; but that evens out after a while.

Might be we see a big drop in usage when costs increase, but it's also very very possible that the many technological advances we currently make (hardware to run models becoming more streamlined and the models themselves being tuned more and more) will mean, that we indeed reach a point where this can be done comparatively cheap and maybe even local (to some degree) without having to take out a loan.

I wouldn't say "managed by LLM" though, just because you spot (partially) agent written commits. It's hard to judge from the outside how much knowledge the maintainer puts into it. There a big band between vibe coding and fully manual coding. And if we are honest, even "fully manual" is a flexible term (does code completion count? does looking at stack overflow count? does looking at other implementations count? using a search engine?).

The world is changing, for better or worse. But cut devs some slack and let them get used to the tools. (And to re-iterate that: bad quality and bugs were a thing before agents as well. It just took longer.)

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It's not a tool, it's a chaos generator.

Don't let people who build houses do it with cardboard boxes instead of bricks, even if it looks like a house in the end.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's not a tool, it's a chaos generator.

Just like humans. Bullshit code and bad developers existed before agents helped make them.