How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?

Intro The problem How to know if an app is vibe-coded? My biases Criteria / The experiment The problem How to know if an app is vibe-coded? My biases Criteria / The experiment Apps Amber Aria for Misskey Atmo Engine Aves Libre Balance Baly Groceries Tracker Bati: Fitness RPG BayesianBahn BeatBridge: Bluetooth Music Binary Eye BlockDrop: Block Puzzle Braincup - Brain Training BVD CaptureCap Casio G-Shock Smart Sync Chompass - Calorie Tracker DeltaSync DuressKeyboard eQuran evcc - solar charging Fechtkarte Feeder Felicity Music Player FixupXer - URL Enhancer Flexify: Gym Workout Log Forkyz Gem Wallet: Bitcoin, USDT, BNB GeoWeather GitHub Trending & Hacker News GPTMobile GymMane Harp Hue Spill invoice, quote, delivery note KeyStoreViewer kitshn (for Tandoor) Klick'r - Smart AutoClicker Lens HRV Léon – The URL Cleaner LetterBox Libre Contacts Backup Lissen: Audiobookshelf client MainTask Mako MarketMonk: Stock Tracker Markleaf MateDroid Materialious MetaGer: Search & Browser Mihrab: Prayer Times & Quran Minesweeper MinkLauncher OpenSource motd N-Zik neutriNote CE Nextcloud Nextcloud Pantry NFC Alarm Clock NouTube NovaDial Offline Translator OPNsense Manager PCAPdroid Personal Stuff Phylax PingOff PipePipe PlainApp: Phone Web Portal Privacy Flip Queens ReadBear Relatrix ReteClock ReteKey Share To InputStick Shattered Pixel Dungeon ShelfDroid ShizuWall Simple Notes Sync Sky Map Snowdrop Suntimes Calendars TacticMaster Tallybook Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders Terminator TigerDuck TimeLimit.io Timety trale Tuisku Unciv Universal Installer UnlicenseLauncher Victoria Launcher Voxscribe - Offline Voice Input Water Sort WaveUp Wikipedia Wristotle Companion Xime IME Yubico Authenticator Amber Aria for Misskey Atmo Engine Aves Libre Balance Baly Groceries Tracker Bati: Fitness RPG BayesianBahn BeatBridge: Bluetooth Music Binary Eye BlockDrop: Block Puzzle Braincup - Brain Training BVD CaptureCap Casio G-Shock Smart Sync Chompass - Calorie Tracker DeltaSync DuressKeyboard eQuran evcc - solar charging Fechtkarte Feeder Felicity Music Player FixupXer - URL Enhancer Flexify: Gym Workout Log Forkyz Gem Wallet: Bitcoin, USDT, BNB GeoWeather GitHub Trending & Hacker News GPTMobile GymMane Harp Hue Spill invoice, quote, delivery note KeyStoreViewer kitshn (for Tandoor) Klick'r - Smart AutoClicker Lens HRV Léon – The URL Cleaner LetterBox Libre Contacts Backup Lissen: Audiobookshelf client MainTask Mako MarketMonk: Stock Tracker Markleaf MateDroid Materialious MetaGer: Search & Browser Mihrab: Prayer Times & Quran Minesweeper MinkLauncher OpenSource motd N-Zik neutriNote CE Nextcloud Nextcloud Pantry NFC Alarm Clock NouTube NovaDial Offline Translator OPNsense Manager PCAPdroid Personal Stuff Phylax PingOff PipePipe PlainApp: Phone Web Portal Privacy Flip Queens ReadBear Relatrix ReteClock ReteKey Share To InputStick Shattered Pixel Dungeon ShelfDroid ShizuWall Simple Notes Sync Sky Map Snowdrop Suntimes Calendars TacticMaster Tallybook Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders Terminator TigerDuck TimeLimit.io Timety trale Tuisku Unciv Universal Installer UnlicenseLauncher Victoria Launcher Voxscribe - Offline Voice Input Water Sort WaveUp Wikipedia Wristotle Companion Xime IME Yubico Authenticator Some interesting observations brandonp2412 Codeberg The “Don’t tread on me” apps brandonp2412 Codeberg The “Don’t tread on me” apps Statistics & Conclusion I love F-Droid. I love what F-Droid stands for and I like the freedom that it gives its users. As a FOSS app maintainer I also have nothing but good things to say about the people behind the project. Maybe they’re even a bit too nice, considering how many times repro has failed due to me forgetting to commit before building 😅. But my god is it hard to find human-written software now. Intro# The problem# Sometimes I open F-Droid just to browse. You know, maybe I’ll find an app that solves a problem I didn’t know I had, or maybe I’ll find a better alternative to something I already use. And one day, while browsing, I noticed an app with an obvious and ugly AI generated icon. It’s not on the list and I will not shame it, but it got me thinking. How much of F-Droid is AI? As someone who does programming for fun and is only a student, untarnished by honest work, I get my knowledge of what the coding world is like mostly from clickbaity YT videos and Reddit posts of CS professionals. They either describe LLMs as god reincarnate or as glorified autocomplete. Both are, obviously, wrong, but that’s not really helpful in determining what I want to know. What is the actual state of programming nowadays? Whenever I use FOSS software, how likely it is that it has been vibe-coded by a rando in an afternoon? How to know if an app is vibe-coded?# That’s the trick—you can’t. Text just doesn’t carry enough meta information for any kind of assessments to be even close to accurate. However, just as that em-dash I used in the first sentence probably triggered an alarm in your brain, there are signs. While that does make the task at hand sound fickle and dependent on happenstance, the signs, especially concerning LLM code repositories, are never too hard to find. You see, the main allure of LLMs is that they allow the developer to be more lazy. That’s kind of the whole point! You just prompt, sit back and relax. So it should not surprise you to hear that this attitude is then reflected in everything the vibe-coder touches. Why write a README from scratch? Lol, just let the LLM do it. Do code-review? Naw, just let the LLM review its own changes and then also give it access to the repo so you don’t even need to press the commit button. If a project was concerned with looking legitimate, it would be trivial to do such things by hand. But it’s low effort all the way down. My biases# This part can be skipped if you don’t care about my stance on LLMs, but I need to make my position clear to avoid contributing to the circlejerk too much. To begin with, I’d like to acknowledge that LLMs are incredibly useful and capable. As 2026 has progressed, this has become more and more visible, but people being able to one-shot medium scale games and software in half an hour is ridiculously impressive, even if the end product is usually not very good. I also am very much in favor of software getting faster and more secure. The story of the Linux kernel development has shown that LLMs are capable of finding and sometimes even solving many types of code issues. With the pleasantries out of the way though, I have to admit I really hate LLMs and what they have done to programming, related engineering fields, and society as a whole. Their mere existence makes educating yourself and going on fun side projects much less rewarding. Like yeah, I did something, but with an LLM I could have done this in a quarter of the time. And when you do take the black pill and vibe-code, it’s even worse. It’s not like you did anything. The machine did that. Then there’s the atrophying effects on human brains, their unfathomable capability for serving plausibly sounding misinformation and the climate disaster that we’re just kinda ignoring. All very fun things to think about. Criteria / The experiment# As mentioned before, there’s no way to effectively detect slop, so I propose a rough 3 tier system based on the aesthetics of the repo: Mostly AI This is mostly for projects that have significant LLM smells and means I expect >50% of the code is LLM authored. Any kind of agentic infrastructure automatically lands an app in this tier as I do not believe it is possible to use AI responsibly from within a coding harness. This is mostly for projects that have significant LLM smells and means I expect >50% of the code is LLM authored. Any kind of agentic infrastructure automatically lands an app in this tier as I do not believe it is possible to use AI responsibly from within a coding harness. Hard to say / Mostly human / Other Occasional LLM commits either by maintainers or contributors, but mostly looks human. May have an LLM policy which permits certain uses. This tag means I expect <50% of the code is LLM authored. Occasional LLM commits either by maintainers or contributors, but mostly looks human. May have an LLM policy which permits certain uses. This tag means I expect <50% of the code is LLM authored. No signs of AI Could not find anything suspicious/Has a strict LLM policy. Could not find anything suspicious/Has a strict LLM policy. Note that my rating will still be quite superficial and the tiers quite loose. I did not build a “slop detector” or anything like that, so my decisions are based on looking at recent commits and their content along with the project’s branding. Also note that since I have no way of knowing for sure, there may be errors. I still believe most of my findings to be accurate however. I will also not look at the history of the app. If it has existed since 2014 but recent commits are LLM authored it will be categorized as “mostly AI” The apps chosen were the batch of updates pushed to F-Droid on September 12, 2026. That amounted to 102 apps, which was quite a lot of work for me to go through.😅 If you just want the results, feel free to skip to the results Apps# Amber# Description: Nostr event signer for Android Repository: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits were done with LLM, PRs accepted from agents, Claude Code and Codex infrastructure present. Aria for Misskey# Repository: https://github.com/poppingmoon/aria Rating: No signs of AI Justification: This is a hard one as commit naming and structure felt a bit suspicious, but I did not see anything else and decided to err on the side of caution Atmo Engine# Repository: https://github.com/saad-khan-rind/nosatmosphereeffect Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Heavy emoji usage in the README, but otherwise nothing looks suspicious. Aves Libre# Repository: https://github.com/deckerst/aves Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looked suspicious Balance# Repository: https://github.com/AshkanRafiee/balance Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Code and commits exhibit various AI smells. Baly Groceries Tracker# Repository: https://github.com/rw-account/baly_groceries_tracker Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Code and commits exhibit various AI smells. Bati: Fitness RPG# Repository: https://github.com/Guiforge/bati Rating: Mostly AI Justification: AI disclosure in README (Thanks for making it easy :D) BayesianBahn# Repository: https://github.com/DerWeh/BayesianBahn Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All commits are Claude co-authored. Though it’s really funny how Deutsche Bahn sucks so hard it has enticed people to vibe-code unofficial timetables. BeatBridge: Bluetooth Music# Repository: https://github.com/brandonp2412/BeatBridge Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Includes Claude Code contributions, quite a lot of the commits look to be at least AI Binary Eye# Repository: https://github.com/markusfisch/BinaryEye Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing suspicious BlockDrop: Block Puzzle# Repository: https://github.com/brandonp2412/BlockDrop Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Has infrastructure for LLMs, Claude co-authored commits. Braincup - Brain Training# Repository: https://github.com/SimonSchubert/Braincup Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits are Claude co-authored BVD# Repository: https://github.com/KafuuNeko/BiliDownload Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits look LLM authored CaptureCap# Repository: https://github.com/yepgoryo/CaptureCap Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Has an AI disclosure listing files written with LLM help Casio G-Shock Smart Sync# Repository: https://github.com/izivkov/CasioGShockSmartSync Rating: Mostly AI Justification: AI artifacts such as planning .md files pushed to repo. Chompass - Calorie Tracker# Repository: https://codeberg.org/fitguy/chompass Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Recent commits look AI authored. Note that this repository is hosted on Codeberg and likely violates their terms of use. DeltaSync# Repository: https://gitlab.com/Star95/keepass-deltasync Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits co-authored by Claude Opus 5 DuressKeyboard# Repository: https://github.com/pofesk0/lastcodeduresskeyboard Rating: ??? Justification: This may be the most confusing repo I’ve ever seen lol. Has been in development since November of 2025, but the owner doesn’t seem to know how to use git??? All the commits have seemingly been done by copy pasting the change code by hand through the GitHub web file editor. Quite bizarre! eQuran# Repository: https://github.com/ya27hw/equran_app Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Has infrastructure for agents; most recent commit looks LLM generated. evcc - solar charging# Repository: https://github.com/evcc-io/app Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Agent infrastructure; Claude co-authorship of commits; even commits without explict co-authorship look largely LLM generated. Fechtkarte# Repository: https://github.com/J0s3f/Fechtkarte Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Agent infrastructure; commits and code look LLM generated Feeder# Repository: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent code commits look LLM generated, accepted PRs from agents. Quite unfortunate, as this is the first app in this list that I actually use, but it works. Felicity Music Player# Repository: https://github.com/Hamza417/Felicity Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Several commits I checked exhibit signs of heavy LLM use. FixupXer - URL Enhancer# Repository: https://github.com/NeatCode-Labs/fixupxer Rating: Mostly AI Justification: AI generated icon + all recent commits look LLM generated. Flexify: Gym Workout Log# Repository: https://github.com/brandonp2412/Flexify Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Lot of LLM infrastructure; code looks almost entirely AI. Forkyz# Repository: https://gitlab.com/Hague/forkyz Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. Gem Wallet: Bitcoin, USDT, BNB# Repository: https://github.com/gemwalletcom/wallet Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. GeoWeather# Repository: https://github.com/FreetimeMaker/GeoWeather Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look LLM generated. GitHub Trending & Hacker News# Repository: https://github.com/HarlonWang/TrendingAI Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits Claude co-authored. GPTMobile# Repository: https://github.com/Taewan-P/gpt_mobile Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look LLM generated. GymMane# Repository: https://github.com/InlitX/GymMane Rating: Mostly AI Justification: README got that LLM emoji vomit; recent commits look AI Harp# Repository: https://git.sr.ht/~lepisma/harp-kmp Rating: Not sure Justification: My browser could not get through the sourcehut bot-detection test for some reason, so I was unable to check code. Saw one commit co-authored by Claude, status of others remains unknown. Hue Spill# Repository: https://github.com/sidhant947/HueSpill Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Very new, only few commits. UI looks vibe-coded though and UI is all this game has. invoice, quote, delivery note# Repository: https://github.com/gatesuperapp/g8-invoicing Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits look entirely AI generated KeyStoreViewer# Repository: https://github.com/qdsfdhvh/KeyStoreViewer Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look entirely AI generated. kitshn (for Tandoor)# Repository: https://github.com/kitshn-app/kitshn Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look entirely AI generated. Klick'r - Smart AutoClicker# Repository: https://github.com/Nain57/Smart-AutoClicker Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looks suspicious Lens HRV# Repository: https://github.com/LensHRV/lenshrv-app Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Born from one +10k LOC “init” commit. 2 remaining commits look LLM authored Léon – The URL Cleaner# Repository: https://github.com/leon-cleaning-services/leon Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. LetterBox# Repository: https://gitlab.com/muelli/letterbox Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look entirely AI generated. Libre Contacts Backup# Repository: https://github.com/AshkanRafiee/Libre-Contacts-Backup Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits look entirely AI generated. Lissen: Audiobookshelf client# Repository: https://github.com/GrakovNe/lissen-android/ Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look entirely AI generated. MainTask# Repository: https://codeberg.org/kapoue/MainTask Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5. Note that this repository is hosted on Codeberg and likely violates their terms of use. Mako# Repository: https://github.com/rama-io/mako Rating: Mostly Human Justification: I see some commits that look LLM generated, but others look human. Let’s err on the side of caution. MarketMonk: Stock Tracker# Repository: https://github.com/brandonp2412/MarketMonk Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. Markleaf# Repository: https://github.com/jeiel85/markleaf-android Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. MateDroid# Repository: https://github.com/vide/matedroid Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. Materialious# Repository: https://github.com/Materialious/Materialious Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Only a brief look, but nothing jumped out as suspicious. MetaGer: Search & Browser# Repository: https://gitlab.metager.de/metager/metager-app Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. Mihrab: Prayer Times & Quran# Repository: https://github.com/Hassan-PS/Mihrab Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. Minesweeper# Repository: https://github.com/john-athan/minesweeper Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look entirely AI generated. So does the UI. MinkLauncher OpenSource# Repository: https://github.com/katoaapps/openminilaunch Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Was suspicious about the incredibly verbose README, but could not find anything else. motd# Repository: https://github.com/trevarj/motd Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. N-Zik# Repository: https://github.com/N-Zik-Group/N-Zik Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. neutriNote CE# Repository: https://github.com/appml/neutrinote Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Found nothing. Nextcloud# Repository: https://github.com/nextcloud/android Rating: Mostly Human Justification: Has LLM infrastructure, but most commits look human. Nextcloud Pantry# Repository: https://github.com/chenasraf/pantry-flutter Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look entirely AI generated. So does the UI. NFC Alarm Clock# Repository: https://github.com/gabeg805/NFC-Alarm-Clock Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. NouTube# Repository: https://github.com/nonbili/NouTube Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. NovaDial# Repository: https://github.com/dhilipmpms/NovaDial Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looks off at a quick glance. Offline Translator# Repository: https://github.com/DavidVentura/offline-translator Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looks off at a quick glance. OPNsense Manager# Repository: https://github.com/Etregin/OPNsense_Manager Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. PCAPdroid# Repository: https://github.com/emanuele-f/PCAPdroid Rating: Almost no signs of AI Justification: Some commits include LLM created translations, however they are disclosed and few and far between Personal Stuff# Repository: https://github.com/rh-id/a-personal-stuff Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Phylax# Repository: https://github.com/sfortis/phylax Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. PingOff# Repository: https://gitlab.com/juanitobananas/ping-off Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; most commits look entirely LLM generated. PipePipe# Repository: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. PlainApp: Phone Web Portal# Repository: https://github.com/plainhub/plain-app Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Privacy Flip# Repository: https://github.com/dorumrr/privacyflip Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Queens# Repository: https://github.com/sidhant947/queens Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. ReadBear# Repository: https://github.com/Tulis12/ReadBear Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Some commits look a bit suspicious, but at a glance I did not see any obvious signs of explicit LLM usage. Relatrix# Repository: https://github.com/saad-ibra/gray-matter Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. ReteClock# Repository: https://github.com/rubidus-api/reteclock_apk Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits are AI generated. ReteKey# Repository: https://github.com/rubidus-api/retekey_apk Rating: Mostly AI Justification: All recent commits are AI generated. Share To InputStick# Repository: https://github.com/TheLastProject/ShareToInputStick Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing suspicious Shattered Pixel Dungeon# Repository: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Some stuff looks a bit sus, but found nothing serious. ShelfDroid# Repository: https://github.com/100nandoo/shelfdroid Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. ShizuWall# Repository: https://github.com/AhmetCanArslan/ShizuWall Rating: Mostly Human Justification: Found some evidence of AI usage, however nothing that looks too widespread. Simple Notes Sync# Repository: https://github.com/inventory69/simple-notes-sync Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Sky Map# Repository: https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. Snowdrop# Repository: https://github.com/ihateblueb/snowdrop Rating: Mostly Human Justification: Some evidence of AI use, but it looks limited. Suntimes Calendars# Repository: https://github.com/forrestguice/SuntimesCalendars Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looks suspicious TacticMaster# Repository: https://github.com/jazzm0/tactic-master Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looks suspicious Tallybook# Repository: https://github.com/herrerad85/tallybook Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders# Repository: https://github.com/tasks/tasks Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looks suspicious Terminator# Repository: https://github.com/8dmusichannels-star/terminator Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. TigerDuck# Repository: https://github.com/tigerduck-app/tigerduck-app-android Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look entirely LLM generated. TimeLimit.io# Repository: https://codeberg.org/timelimit/timelimit-android Rating: No signs of AI Justification: Nothing looks suspicious Timety# Repository: https://github.com/Benji377/Timety Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. trale# Repository: https://github.com/QuantumPhysique/trale Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look mostly LLM generated. Tuisku# Repository: https://github.com/omaawr/tuisku Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look mostly LLM generated. Unciv# Repository: https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv Rating: Mostly Human Justification: Some commits co-authored by Claude, but a bunch of others look human. Universal Installer# Repository: https://github.com/pass-with-high-score/universal-installer Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look mostly LLM generated. UnlicenseLauncher# Repository: https://github.com/sirdeepsleep/UnlicenseLauncher Rating: ??? Justification: Looks to be a repeat of “DuressKeyboard”. Quite a bizarre repo, but it looks like the accounts are different. Victoria Launcher# Repository: https://github.com/adelmonte/victoria-launcher Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Voxscribe - Offline Voice Input# Repository: https://codeberg.org/y20k/voxscribe Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Note that this repository is hosted on Codeberg and likely violates their terms of use. Water Sort# Repository: https://github.com/sidhant947/water-sort Rating: Not sure Justification: README shows lots of AI signs, but I did not see anything too suspicious in code. WaveUp# Repository: https://gitlab.com/juanitobananas/wave-up/tree/HEAD Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; most commits look entirely LLM generated. Wikipedia# Repository: https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia Rating: Mostly Human Justification: Most commits look human made, but there’s quite a lot of claude infrastructure. I know! I thought Wikipedia would be an easy pass too! Wristotle Companion# Repository: https://codeberg.org/wristotle/wristotle-companion Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Note that this repository is hosted on Codeberg and likely violates their terms of use. Xime IME# Repository: https://github.com/ximeiorg/Xime Rating: Mostly AI Justification: LLM infrastructure; recent commits look mostly LLM generated. Yubico Authenticator# Repository: https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-flutter Rating: Mostly AI Justification: Most recent commits look AI generated. Some interesting observations# brandonp2412# While going through the apps I noticed one user named brandonp2412 maintaining quite a few in this update cycle. Of course, all entirely vibe-coded. That wouldn’t be that much of a surprise, however they all seem to be under widely different namespaces. Some are just the app name, but some are quite confusing: “com.presley.*” or “com.codesail.*”. Either they’re just a very avid vibe-coder, or they’re one of those agents that have been given a GitHub account for some reason. Codeberg# Out of the 5 apps hosted on Codeberg, 4 are mostly AI generated and thus likely violate Codeberg’s AI policy. The “Don’t tread on me” apps# I also noticed a pair of very bizarre apps, both branded with the yellow “Don’t tread on me” flag. DuressKeyboard & UnlicenseLauncher What’s most curious is that they have been in development for quite some time, yet all the changes are done not with git but through the GitHub web file editor! Someone go find that person and teach them to use git😭😭. Statistics & Conclusion# Out of 102 apps: 74 were largely written by AI (72.5%) 10 were hard to categorize one way or another (9.8%) 18 showed little to no signs of AI involvement (17.6%) Really not sure how to cope with these numbers though. On one hand, some seem to have quite a few users. And if people are having their lives improved by using said software, who am I to say “no”? On the other hand, I’m really concerned about what the data means for the FOSS community as a whole. I explicitly did not do any code quality analysis as that would have taken much more time and would have probably been out of my skill level anyway, but I am curious about the robustness and maintainability of the 72%. Just for fun I also checked a few of the FOSS apps I actually use and quite a few showed signs of heavy LLM usage. I’ll still use them, as I find them useful, but this whole experiment has left me feeling quite conflicted. I know how to fix this though: Hey Claude, make a load-bearing time machine set to 2016 – a time when I was a happy kid, nothing bad ever happened and all was good in FOSS-land. Make no mistakes