From 6e73ae460829d91788a36403d2988e1633fc7313 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:46:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Add a "Sibling Repos" section for referencing other forks and similar repos --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 07b097f7..7644bf80 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). * [Maintainer Fatigue](#maintainer-fatigue) * [Deskilling](#deskilling) * [License](#license) +* [Sibling Repos](#sibling-repos) ## Definitions @@ -412,6 +413,12 @@ There is increasing evidence to show that LLMs negatively impact developers' cod This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license. Please see [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for more information. +# Sibling Repos + +This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. + +- [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. + [Delta Chat]: https://delta.chat/en/ [Elvish]: https://elv.sh From 971f677f65a5faa129900129f89bfc967e51dc1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:24:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Add noai.starlightnet.work/list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thank you to @tjk for the suggestion and to @cyrneko for working on the list and also this repo 💙 --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7644bf80..a87a3b12 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. - [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. +- [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. [Delta Chat]: https://delta.chat/en/ From db8850801bbf9ef1a4bfd8c760bbcbadef1b642b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:29:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Add slop-free-index Thanks to @sebastien for suggesting it and thanks to @brib for maintaining this. --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a87a3b12..4797da8a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -415,10 +415,11 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 # Sibling Repos -This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. +This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. - [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. - [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. +- [slop-free-index](https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index) is a list of software that has taken steps to reject AI in its development processes. [Delta Chat]: https://delta.chat/en/ From 3da5c3746dba952cd52104165e650ebfca759eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:31:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] clean up links and wording --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4797da8a..c6efd2d5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. -- [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. +- [llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. [#12](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/issues/12), [#22](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/22)) to help us here. - [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. - [slop-free-index](https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index) is a list of software that has taken steps to reject AI in its development processes. From 8aaafce725470e8d951360b7e1bd939a594583f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:37:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] note that some of these repos are kind of the opposite of ours, but still in a good way :) --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c6efd2d5..9691d63d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 # Sibling Repos -This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. +This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding AI/LLM usage OR identifying/elevating projects that do NOT use AI/LLMs. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. - [llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. [#12](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/issues/12), [#22](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/22)) to help us here. - [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. From d30d3e4e3d15f95c3c29615aa18a9069f9ba2adc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:19:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] fix javascript not being clickable --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9691d63d..379e4315 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). * [Programming Language-Specific Tooling](#programming-language-specific-tooling) * [C](#c) * [CSS](#css) - * [JavaScript / TypeScript](#javascript--typescript) + * [JavaScript / TypeScript](#javascript-and-typescript) * [Python](#python) * [Rust](#rust) * [Game Engines](#game-engines) @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). |---|---|---|---| | [`tailwindcss`](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss) | [`twind`](https://github.com/tw-in-js/twind) | [Sponsorship page states explicitly that the founder uses AI to write code and even sells access to his "Cursor/Claude/AGENTS.md rules"](https://tailwindcss.com/sponsor) | | -### JavaScript / TypeScript +### JavaScript And TypeScript | Name | Alternative(s) | Evidence | Notes | |---|---|---|---|