We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.

https://github.com/flathub-infra/documentation/commit/992f57b30de98ddbd5e80959e9672998c83c8c97

I've had some reservations about it, so the wording before that commit was relatively milder. I know it's an unpopular opinion on the Fediverse, but I do think LLMs are inevitable, and the reality is that you can expect less organically grown code as time goes on. I believe it can be a useful tool in and outside FOSS; I hoped we will see a larger number of apps where authors made some effort beyond prompting an agent. Meanwhile, the number of unpleasant interactions I've had with entitled submitters acting as if they were bestowing their brilliant software upon us idiots who are rejecting it went through the roof in the last month. I'm tired.

As always, we are not applying this retroactively, so any vibecoded apps which were already published will remain available.

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Flathub has updated its policy to explicitly ban AI/LLM usage in both the app submission process and the applications being submitted. The maintainer shares personal reservations about the strict ban, acknowledging LLMs as inevitable tools, but explains the decision was driven by a surge in entitled submitters pushing AI-generated apps with little effort. Already-published vibe-coded apps will not be removed retroactively.

Bart Piotrowski: "We have updated Flathub's LLM …"