Comment

Comment on I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using

terraincognita@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I do use AI tools while developing this project, but I also have a BSc in Computer Science. AI is a productivity tool.

Security is something I take seriously, especially since the project deals with health data. All code has test and you’re welcome to inspect the repository yourself or point out any specific security concerns if you notice them.

Regarding licensing: the AGPL license applies to the project as a whole regardless of the tools used to write parts of the code.

If you have concrete technical feedback or security issues, I’d genuinely appreciate it.

source

Sort:hotnew top

sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You should add a disclaimer stating that you have used an LLM. I have done so for a tool I built with an LLM that I needed, because I don’t know jackshit about coding and I am not gonna pretend I do.

source
- terraincognita@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Partially agree, but I do know how to code and use it as a tool.
  
  source
- chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  because I don’t know jackshit about coding and I am not gonna pretend I do.
  
  But if OP does know and apply that knowledge to what they are doing, it’s not the same thing and doesn’t make sense to have the same disclaimer.
  
  source
- Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s not realistic to expect no AI assistance in coding in 2026.
  
  It’s also not a stand-in for a human. There’s a huge field of gray where it’s unclear how much of it was fully vibe coded vs how much is carefully hand reviewed and/or written.
  
  I’ve been a professional developer for decades and I’ve done both. Obviously I’ve hand coded stuff for many years. The fully vibe coded stuff is personal, to test and learn the capabilities of the tech. My professional stuff I watch much more closely, and I’m much more targeted in what I’m having the AI do.
  
  That said, if I were gonna use this I’d actually review the code. I’m not recommending this guy’s stuff, but you can’t rule it out on the basis of ai assistance alone.
  
  source
  - CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It may not be a stand in for a human, but that’s exactly how many of these vibe coded projects are. It’s not unreasonable to ask the developer to spend 30 seconds to describe how they use these tools.
    
    source
  - teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    A bunch of people who couldn’t tell their left shift from their right shoelace think you don’t know what you’re talking about lol.
    
    I agree, to a person who knows the machine, an AI is like a compiler: you know the output you’re going for, the tool helps you get there faster. Expecting you to do something the slow way because someone else doesn’t know how to code is nonsense. There is a massive difference between using it as a tool, and blindly taking generated code.
    
    If the internet existed in the 70s, I bet people would have asked for a disclaimer on compiled assembly.
    
    source
  - pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    It’s not realistic to expect no AI assistance in coding in 2026.
    
    Pathetic. You have a serious skill issue, that much is true, but you need to keep it to yourself instead of sharting it out into society. Code better or go get a job you’re more qualified for, like operating a tollbooth.
    
    source
    Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ignorance, fear, or are you just following the kid’s trend of anti-ai, pushback against corporate desperation?
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Guess I’ll stick to unrealistic software then.
    
    source
- terraincognita@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You can see that I use some of metrics, like test coverage, estimates and so on to prove its validation as potentially serious project, that will grow from a pet one.
  
  source
  - Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Testcoverage by ai generated Tests is close to worthless. “Tests are only as good as the person writing them”
    
    Did you generate your tests?
    
    source
    terraincognita@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I agree with you, therefore I also need contributors for that. It is difficult to run this on my own, as I have basic in coding, but not a tester, so I have to use agentic workflow to check after it was generated, so it is not just like hiding sh*t.
    
    source
- Zak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Why?
  
  It makes sense to try to give users an idea of how robust a project is, but the exact details of the tools involved in its creation rarely add much to that. It gets a little weird with LLMs because they allow someone with no programming skill to create software that appears to work, which ought to be disclosed; “I don’t know what I’m doing and I asked a robot to make this” does indicate unreliable code. A skilled developer having an LLM fill in some extra test cases, on the other hand can only make the project more robust.
  
  source
IanTwenty@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The danger being raised with the licensing is that you can’t license something if you’re not considered to be the author. There are growing examples of courts and lawmakers determining AI output to be public domain:

The US Supreme Court recently refused to reconsider Thaler v. Perlmutter, in which the plaintiff sought to overturn a lower court decision that he could not copyright an AI-generated image. This is an area of ongoing concern among the defenders of copyleft because many open source projects incorporate some level of AI assistance. It’s unclear how much AI involvement in coding would dilute the human contribution to the extent that a court would disallow a copyright claim.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/

This is an evolving, global situation and hard to know what to do right now. I think what you’ve got is fine though - you’ve made it clear your intention is to license with AGPL. It’s just that depending on the jurisdiction it might be public domain instead.

This is another reason to be clear about the use of AI in the README so your users can make an informed decision.

source
- terraincognita@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I agree, though there is a difference in case you rovided and mine. It is a human-directed work. Thousands of libraries, Kubernetes, Kubernetes still live and license is valid.
  
  source
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How does AI help with productivity? I’ve gotten so many false answers that I quit trusting it

source
- prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Imagine you are on the ground under your car and need a different tool. You ask for it and somebody hands it to you. That person is young and inexperienced. It is up to You to check if it’s the right tool, and if not pass it back (and in this example tell the person about the error and help them correct it).
  
  And sure, You can always crawl out and get the tool yourself and sometimes that is the only option and in coding terms in my opinion best practice. But you can be faster with your helper. Use it appropriately and see how it affects your work. And that’s the point, your work. Don’t pass responsibility or thought off to AI.
  
  source
  - militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ok but give me a wrench example in coding terms. What wrench are you wanting? I really am curious
    
    source
    prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    “how would you approach this task where I have x prerequisite and want y”
    
    source
- moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Because it’s able to write boilerplate faster than a human. And because it’s able to perform refactorings that are not possible with IDEs or regex due to their lack of structure. Also because you can ask it to review your files and it does find bugs that would otherwise be missed at first. There’s a huge difference between vibe-coded slop and using the tools available to you effectively.
  
  source
- SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I use it all the time as a kind of brainstorming tool.
  
  “I want to do X (and details), can you tell me what tools or algorithms are available to me? List their pros and cons and give me some comparison”
  
  Or on a somewhat recent project of mine, I has to effectively stub an entire library (but didn’t have to be done well), so I just told AI “take this page (the docs) and generate empty function stubs from it”. It doesn’t need to be high quality since it doesn’t run, it’s just to fool the dotnet engine.
  
  I also tend to ask AI to add logging to some functions, since it’s annoying to do and impossible to mess up.
  
  source
  - militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Best answer I’ve read. I get why it’s used, I just don’t trust it because there’s got to be a catch as hard as companies are pushing it. It’s available for free, so we must be the product somehow
    
    source
- jamoquanty@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  @militaryintelligence @terraincognita
  They are tools like any other, it's how you use them that matters.
  source
  - xvapx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No, they’re tools different from any other due to their nondeterministic nature. That, coupled with hallucinations, are the big differences that make me automatically dismiss anything using these tools.
    
    source
    jamoquanty@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    All sounds a bit Greek to me. Free will vs determinism with a splash of Aristotle's distaste for contradiction.
    Machine learning powers the cancer drugs that keep me alive, modern banking systems and the chess and rogue like apps I've been using since the 80's.
    Wasn't long ago Gutternberg's devilry was ruining the world and destroying art and creativity, now peeps treating it like Hersiod's ages of God's & Heroes.
    source
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m guessing you let the AI make the tests and everything, which wouldn’t give me much reassurance that any of the code is good. Sadly AI will jump through any hoops it can to get tests to pass if it can’t get the code working.

I think people who let AI run wild to create a whole app should write the tests themselves or at least only with line completion (jusdging by a quick look at the project files, I am guessing an AI did everything).

Could be food for thought?

source