Why not? I’ve added it to my projects. It’s simple, just open README.md. Write “# Use of AI. This project does not currently use AI. / This project is entirely vibe coded & I don’t read the code at all. / I occasionally use Claude Code but thoroughly review its output.”
Save. Commit. Push. How is that not straightforward?
I think there would be a lot less drama around this if authors were just up-front about how they use AI. Put it in your readme, just like you do with licenses.
I don’t see why unions are necessary for that. If it turns out they are wrong and AI can’t reduce the need for humans they will quickly realise.
In any case, they’re pretty clearly just using AI as an easy excuse for layoffs they want to do anyway.
now that Rust has called attention to them.
More like now that Rust is embarrassing C.
A common pattern. GCC’s error messages only got good once Clang embarrassed it.
It’s sci-fi that AI is going to take over, but we also need unions to prevent it? Hmm.
Looks reasonably legit to me. You can always ask for more details if you’re interested. What exactly do they want you to do? What software is it?
It does feel slightly odd that someone would be spamming GitHub users for something like this, but you never know… Can’t hurt to ask for more details anyway.
It’s going to have terrible UX, a complete pain to build, the contribution process is going to be some git send-email mailing list nonsense, it’s going to expect you to have read the manual (probably in info just to be difficult) cover to cover before you even consider using it.
But on the other hand it probably has at least decent documentation, it probably works reasonably well, and there’s zero chance of rug pulls, closed source add-ons, etc.
Overall I would say it has negative connotations. If you said “check out this package manager, Fooly”, I’d think “ok might be good, might not”. If you said “check out this package manager, GNU Fooly”, I would say hell no. It’ll be awful.
It’s the software equivalent of books that have “how to read this book” sections.
Implementation was never just typing. It’s discovery and learning. Tooling changed, human problem solving didn’t.
Yes this is weapons grade slop. It’s practically a cliche of slop.
Slop in the subheading before I even get to the first sentence. No thanks.
That is… shoddy. This is basic stuff.
I wasn’t commenting on the specifics of this case; just that the general provisional that offering something for free absolves you off any responsibly is completely wrong.
Yeah but that is only…
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW
The law fortunately does not require payment before you have any moral responsibility to others.
You can’t put “free apples!” outside your farm, and then when people who eat the actually poisoned apples die say “well, did they pay me for them?”
Typescript is JavaScript, just with static type annotations.
Ah you’re expecting users to browse with no JS enabled. Does Radicle’s web interface actually require JS anyway? And either way that’s no reason to pick C over Typescript.
Cradicle’s web interface improves security by keeping all the complex functionality in the HTML server and serving pure scriptless HTML to web browsers instead.
That isn’t really any more secure.
I hear it allows more control over compiler behavior
Not in a good way - more like a “oh good what compiler flags do I need to mess with to make this code work?” way 😄
there should be radicle apps in multiple coding languages, like there are BitTorrent apps in multiple coding languages.
Reasonable. C is still a poor choice though.
Is Tor really “straightforward”? It sounds anything but.
Also C? In 2026? Radicle seems to be written mostly in Rust, with Typescript for the web interface. Why on earth would you want to downgrade to C?
Also I believe Mold only supports ELF.
And based on the benchmarks they’ve posted, Wild is even faster than Mold.
Lol, I know absolutely nothing about Postman but seriously suggesting Bash scripts, curl and grep as a way to test APIs is a nice way to tell people not to bother listening to your worthless opinions!
A Python script is far more reasonable.
Depends what you want to do, but for scientific stuff, R or MATLAB.