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There is never not an alternative to something, and I can always have my AI botch together my own version if I think this is going to get me better results.
It’s people who insist that potentially millions of other people should be affected by their vibe-coded stuff too, by upstreaming it into Debian.
I vibe coded some simple things for the family myself, but I don’t expect or require anyone else to want or use it.
As a beneficiary of Debian, this is good, you are praising Debian with feint damnation. I wish Debian had done more gatekeeping in the past on specific components.
I was proud of that, and am slightly bummed to hear someone thinks it sounds AI-like. Also, I had a typo, its supposed to be "faint" (light) not "feint" (fake-out), though the latter worked out in context, and works by adding a homonym layer to the turn of phrase already turned on its head. 2 layers of smug, conceited cleverness - or 1 layer and a typo if you're not feeling charitable - that gets in the way of clear communication seems very human to me, YMMV.
Also there’s an implicit moral judgement there against gatekeeping.
Gatekeeping serves a useful purpose in any functioning organization of all scales, from a community center to a country, from an open source project to a Fortune 500.