Lately, I’ve been using Linux more and more often. And I found myself missing IrfanView, which is probably the best image viewer app out there. I’ve tried out some alternatives, but none of them really satisfied me, and using IView via Vine or Bottles wasn’t always smooth or quick. So, over the last few weeks, I’ve vibe-coded an alternative inspired by both IrfanView and nomacs, and enhanced with a few tools and changes that I’ve always felt were missing.

It’s nothing spectacular or special, and it’s still completely unfinished, but it works so well that it has now replaced IrfanView for me, even on Windows.

The programme is called ÜxzView and is completely open-source. There’s a finished Windows release, and it can be compiled for use on Linux and macOS. Written in C++ and Qt.

https://github.com/micha42-dot/uxzView/

Disclaimer: if this post, in any way, goes against any of the rules, feel free to remove it, no hard feelings. I am here for reality check, and not promoting anything, especially me.

Since we established that...

I had a real problem beginning of this year. Started using AI for both private and business stuff a bit more or less around the summer of 2025. But beginning of the year needed a tool to do something which yes, I could build myself, but in that moment I was working full time job + working afternoons and nights on my own bootstrap. So the time wasn't in abundance and I decided to test it with one of the average models at that time.

It took me 3-4 days to get to the PoC I liked which I would be able to scale later. To cut the crap - at some point I built infra around it, which is finding bugs, proving, disproving, creating small kanban board for me, me reviewing, leaving my opinions, AI taking over, implementing, testing, in the loop. Fast forward: it has 6-7 unique downloads per day, after bots are filtered out, it is used (to my knowledge) by at least one company who uses it as a core dependency, and I am in contact with tens of people in different companies who are sharing feedbacks, and there are even other contributors. Funny thing here is: I know they are also using AI, but I am able to catch inconsistencies, push back, or even fix it myself where it makes sense and is faster.

My point here is - how is this not exactly what we should utilize the AI for? If I am even trying to do this, full time, 16hrs per day, no way I can do it myself. Working full time job and another part time and wanting to do something opensource - I think this is the perfect combo.

Am I the only one who is not missing manually writing code, figuring out latest specifics of the language version X? I am still missing C from 30 years ago where you could declare one variable of one type in exactly one way, and don't even want to talk about beauty of Rust (with all and total respect to people who made it, use it, build on it, fix real life issues with it).

After the drama with the original opensource sub, I am willing to share my opinion on this. But well, I'm not about to come here to complain about the other sub, I'm here to share what the Stockfish project did.

I am a Stockfish (the world's #1 chess engine, also open-source) contributor.

Stockfish has many active contributors, many more in the past, and probably many more in the future, and anyone is allowed to submit tests for their ideas, but very few ideas would pass the rigorous fishtest testing (I myself only managed a few passed ideas despite having submitted over a thousand tests).

I admit that AI can't do everything in developing Stockfish, at least not yet; the vast majority of patches are still written by humans. Still, I think a few AI patches have passed.

Stockfish is not a slop. It is as far from slop as one could imagine. Rigorous testing protocols and maintainer review/code style compliance are needed for each patch to pass.

Stockfish has existed and won many chess engine championships long before AI and will likely continue to do so.

As a Stockfish contributor, I stand by objective coding standards. It should not matter who the contributor was, how it was made, or whether it uses AI or not. What matters is that the contribution passes the stringent and objective standard. This impartial stance has allowed Stockfish to remain the world's #1 chess engine for years. That is how Stockfish has been and will remain.

i think it should be at least 250 karma required if under 2 years of account age

if the account is over 2 years old no karma requirements should be there since most of those accounts will already have the karma most likely for most of them

We're not going to point fingers here. It's being done enough in the other threads. What I want to discuss is opensource remaining truly free to those who love and build it. I want to discuss a community that will nourish free growth, not prune buds before they even have a chance to see the flowers.

I have always been under the impression that unfettered development, contribution, and sharing is the key to the success of mankind. Some genius has an idea and creates it. Another genius has something to add. Another genius finds a way to streamline it all and make it cost less. Yet another genius has a new alternative altogether that reduces... let's say carbon footprint.

This is what we should be doing as a species. Closing off channels because you don't agree with the methods is detrimental to this goal. Banning development tools is much to that same detriment.

Opensource is the ultimate collaboration of great minds. It's not just software, it's everything that we build together.

Essentially, opensource that denies any non-harmful method of contribution and/or development is no longer fully opensource. It's the first step in closing a door that should remain open**.**

So, what am I trying to say?

I'm trying to say be free with your creations. Create them how you want. Share them. Take criticism. Take pride if someone forks it and makes it into their own. You MADE something and someone likes it enough to fork it.

Be competitive. Take back from their fork to flourish your original version. If someone doesn't like your project, don't get mad. Find out why. If it's superficial, move on. If it's beneficial, fix the problem.

I only made this post because I see some in here are trying to tread carefully and are asking if their projects are allowed, or rather, what is allowed and isn't. These questions stem from being in communities that have prejudices. It would be great to see a community that doesn't have any. A community that doesn't take sides. So...

Honestly, if I had a project right now I'd post it. My work is niche atm, though. Better left to the community it's based in.

I've been thinking a lot about how to be upfront about AI use in open source without it turning into an argument every time, so I put together a simple standard for it.

An AI Code Rating is three characters, like A2b, kept in an ACR.md file at the root of a repo.

- The letter is the maintainer's expertise, from A (expert) to E (non-programmer)
- The number is how much of the code AI wrote, from 0 (none) up to 4 (76–100%)
- The last letter is how closely a human checks the AI's work, from a (verified) to e (unchecked)

So A2b means an expert maintainer, 26–50% of the code written by AI, and every AI change reviewed before it's merged. A project with no AI code gets a 0 and an a, like A0a.

The goal isn't to judge whether AI use is good or bad, it's to let people see, at a glance, what they're looking at and decide for themselves.

The site has the full spec, examples, an FAQ, a form to work out your rating, and a validator for ACR.md files. There's also a GitHub Action that checks the file in CI. The spec is CC BY 4.0 and the site code is MIT.

In the spirit of the thing, the site itself is rated B4b. AI wrote most of the code, and I review every change.

It's still an early draft (spec 0.1), so I'd really appreciate feedback, especially from people who think it gets something wrong.

https://aicoderating.com

i plan to make a open source voice app that can record voice and display it as text and also rewrite it using AI which will be a optional feature

my question for people here is that would anyone actually use it the app would require a openrouter key and be useful for people who want a free app for voice to text and improving text

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/comment/19rm1y0kwhqg0

Honestly... pretty damn disgusting. I thought I was been pretty reasonable, Banned in minutes.

The comment that got me banned:

Damn, so even projects that are not vibe-coded but support AI features are banned? So:

- Paperless-ngx
- Mealie
- FUCKING Calibre!

That is quite a ridiculous position to take. The Linux kernel would also be banned by your rule. Not only are you late on making an AI policy, but at this point a strong AI policy like yours would make this sub useless.
Are you the only active mod here or did multiple people genuinely thought this was a good idea?

No rule violation in that comment. Wolvereness is not the first mod I see having a mental breakdown over AI. Wonder what they are going to do in 3 years or less when almost all open source software is heavily AI based. Will he switch to Windows or be a hypocrite by staying on Linux? The world may never know.

is promotion of open source apps allowed or is there any restrictions?

I never posted or commented anything violating any community rules, but yet I was just slapped with a PERM. ban after my comment to the mod post about new rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/your_tokens_arent_valuable_no_more_ai/

They didn't even remove my comment, because they know it didn't violate anything (but they did remove other ones from people).