tainted-software

Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.

Contributing

To contribute to this list, file a pull request adding it to the appropriate category, along with any known alternatives. The pull request must include links to evidence of such (social media posts, screenshots, commit history, links to CLAUDE.md, etc). Title the pull request "Add <software-name>" or such.

The bar for being included in this repository is that one ne or more core/prominent devs must openly use LLMs to develop their software. That means that for the time being, simply being "neglectful" and allowing things by contributors that happen to use LLMs does not warrant inclusion on this list. In the future, this may be tightened to projects that accept contributions that are known to be made with genAI, or even any project maintained by known genAI boosters.

Tainted Software

Developer Tools

Name	Alternative(s)	Evidence
cargo-nextest	Just use cargo test	CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md in repository

Editors

Name	Alternative(s)	Evidence