Blogger investigates how much of F-Droid's app catalog is AI-generated code
A hobbyist developer and F-Droid user set out to estimate how much software on the open-source app store F-Droid is written or heavily assisted by LLMs, after spotting an app with an obviously AI-generated icon. The author admits there's no reliable way to definitively detect AI-written code from text alone, but argues that certain behavioral and stylistic patterns in repositories can hint at LLM involvement.