I think that Julia discourse should host some discussion about the use of LLM and coding agents in the registered packages.

[image] kahliburke: Is it ‘slop’ in your opinion to copy a function from a Fortran library almost verbatim, but not quite, add an error along the way, write it with @goto which is rather un-Julian, register that as a package in the general Julia registry, with only one test case that doesn’t exe…

[image] mbauman: By registering a package, you’re taking something valuable from the community — a name in the default Pkg registry. Just to say you also take a bit something more important, reputational capital.. this is already happened in the past.. when something doesn’t work, often is no…

[image] goerz: If someone wants to establish such a badge system on a voluntary basis: ok – I’m not sure how much traction it will get, but it’s a fine thing to experiment with. It will get no traction at all, unless it is required as a part of package submission to declare the usage of LLM …

I don’t understand why in the PR @Mikhail_Kagalenko posted, comments need to be so confrontational, I don’t really find that there is any reason for it. I see that the PR is being made mainly to hold up a point. And it does that well in my opinion, but, at the same time, I see some (weaker) evidence…

[image] Mikhail_Kagalenko: As @mbauman stated, [image] mbauman: It’s not about right and wrong, that’s just the thing. It’s about the informed consent. That was definitively not my point. My point was that none of these topics (curation, LLM tool use, even GMO use) are binary and cle…

This is going to go off the rails rapidly if we keep going this way. Let’s try to tone it down to a more constructive conversation

[image] [ANN] Tachikoma.jl — A terminal UI framework for Julia I’m not trying to take over the conversation, but “vibe code” is something that’s going to be a part of our new reality, and we should all get on board. Open source exists because people give their time and energy to create software o…

[image] xlxs4: People in a specific community have to abide by the agreed upon rules . It’s not clear to me how that has anything to do with open source You noticed that we are talking about package development and not Julia development, right? Is anyone here getting paid to develop packages?…

[image] Ronis_BR: You noticed that we are talking about package development and not Julia development, right? Those linked rules are for package development! [image] Ronis_BR: Is the Registry fully curated so that all the packages undergo massive analysis? No. You’re assuming an extre…

[image] Ronis_BR: So, besides the name and version number, there is very little to impose, only perhaps, advice. I think your assessment of how much is imposed would change if you spent time watching the issues in GitHub - JuliaRegistries/General: The official registry of general Julia packag…

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Should General have a guideline or rule preventing registration of vibe-coded packages? Community general-registry	82	2981	October 21, 2025
Reliability of AI coding tools Offtopic llm	30	968	November 19, 2025
JuliaLang/julia is AI slop now and I am heartbroken Community	28	1713	March 29, 2026
Anthropic gave me 6 months of Claude Max for my contributions to the Julia ecosystem :) Offtopic ai	73	2703	August 12, 2026
Please more bureaucracy on package registrations! Package Management	20	1417	June 11, 2023

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