How Can I properly Evaluate FOSS apps?

Don’t think Techlore does any form of code review. I’ve seen Kuketz do it.

I also doubt anyone at PG does too. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if they did.

tbh, I’ve had tremendous success with evaluating code by chatting via GitHub Copilot + Claude Sonnet (the option is now right there in the top bar of every repository on GitHub). I’d encourage non-coders to see just how far they can go with such tools.

In fact, in the recent past, I’ve “collaborated” with LLMs (mostly, Gemini & GPT4) to reverse engineer & even make sense of obfuscated code (to find trackerware/spyware), but this exercise was a bit more technical.

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