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Séverin Lemaignan

@severin@hci.social
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Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

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Joined October 30, 2022

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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
Until recently, this would have required being a solid coder. Not anymore. I deeply believe that LLMs will empower people, like nothing before, to _own_ the technology they depend on. I wish the open-source community would realise that. LLM might disrupt today's open-source workflows, and force a deep transformation. But LLMs might also become an extremely powerful vector to support and expand the _idea_ of libre software. Let invent the processes, practices, tools to make that happen! 9/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
Even though I've written code for 15+ years, with 100s of pre-LLM open-source repositories, I am not really interested in the code itself. In fact, I'm very happy for an LLM to do that for me. What I deeply care about, however, is to build excellent open-source tools, and make them available to everyone. Tools that are as good or better than proprietary ones. I want to contribute to a world where people own their tech stack, and do not depend on the whims of a few capitalist actors. 8/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
But the important point is elsewhere: I did not submit this PR because I really wanted to join the community of Inkscape developers. I submitted this PR because it wanted to address a pain point in the software. I did it (with the help of an LLM) and I thought it could be useful to others, so I tried (and failed) to share it. 7/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
Accepting a PR from a new contributor implicitly means accepting the contributor her/himself into the project: a technical contribution in exchange of social recognition. But this only make sense as long as the contributor has actually contributed a significant effort. In my case, I did not code anything. Were defining a problem, supervising a LLM, testing the results, participating to the follow-up discussions, sufficient contributions? maybe not. @doctormo@floss.social you might have a different take? 6/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
There was a good technical reason for it, but at this stage, the back-and-forth and permanent need for justification was draining, and I decided to eventually withdraw my PR. In that case, I think the negative feelings were as much about the objective risks (who would maintain that code, etc), as they were about the subjective feelings that accepting this kind of contribution would open a pandora box of (potentially useful) LLM features that do not deeply 'belong' to the project ethos. 5/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
One example: I submitted a PR to Inkscape https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7862 to improve a specific algorithm. The code was entirely written by Claude.My role & contribution were purely about defining the problem, supervising the coding process and testing the result. The code was initially well received (as the feature was useful), but the feeling changed when @doctormo@floss.social one of the lead maintainers, found that the LLM code duplicated a specific colour conversion algorithm already implemented elsewhere. 4/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
It seems to me that the open-source community is torn between conflicting feelings atm: real, difficult technical challenges that might force an unpleasant re-thinking of how to 'do open-source'; the subjective feeling of being somewhat robbed of a hard-gained expertise and peer recognition by no-effort 'LLM kiddies'; but also the recognition that LLMs are extremely powerful tools, probably much better that the average OS programmer, and not likely to be simply waved away anyway. 3/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @severin@hci.social
The critique is valid and focuses on the *coding* side of open-source. One can argue whether 'hand-coding' will still be relevant in a few years, or whether it will become a niche craft, like coding directly in assembly today. But there's no denying that the slow-paced community-building process on which open-source thrive -- and where individual contributors find meaning and social reward -- is hardly compatible with the primarily individualistic & fast-paced nature of LLM code churning. 2/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Jul 25, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
There's a lot of negative sentiment about LLMs in the libre/open-source community atm. @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de decision to largely forbid hosting of LLM-generated code is a fresh example. @sesivany@social.vivaldi.net wrote a good, balanced piece on the topic: https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/07/23/how-ai-is-changing-open-source/ -- I won't repeat the arguments here; no doubts, LLMs are having a major impact on both the technical and social foundations of the unwritten 'open-source contract'. 1/9
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · May 14, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @0xf0@camp.smolnet.org
@0xf0@camp.smolnet.org ...if only it was any good... 15 years that I _have_ to use it (...main/only option on Linux), and I still rage-quit it after 10min everytime I open it. I can see why one might want to support it for political reason (and that's a good enough reason), but man... The UX was already bad 15 years ago, and it hasn't changed a bit since then.
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Mar 31, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @delta@chaos.social
@delta looks like an impressive release! Audio/video calls based on WebRTC 🤩 Congrats to the devs! imho, the last remaing hurdle for much greater reach for deltachat is contact discovery. Any plans/ideas about that?
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Mar 24, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
@EUCommission what does the 'research' side of the agreement entail? Will Australia join the Horizon Europe research framework?
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Mar 24, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social

At the #HRI2026 conference, I presented our thoughts on the current #HumanoidHype: yes, that's a lot of undeniably cool machines, doing backflips and complicated dances, but well... it feels that the US and Chinese companies leading the show haven't fully realized/understood what it means to create robots to work alongside humans.

More here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/skadge_hri2026-humanoidhype-responsiblerobotics-share-7442217711637749761-BJzN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACXCd8B5Q2e7tT7qrUwwsR-eymaaKR0ceg

You can read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/deSmD7dK

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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Mar 17, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social

@BenjaminRosman keynote at #HRI2026 : strengthening the ML community in Africa. Now running the largest summer school in AI in the world. Inspiring! #SustainableHRI

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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Mar 16, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social

Miriam presenting our work on generating robot faces procedurally for our #Emy social robot. @hri@hci.social #SocialMinds

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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Feb 28, 2026
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @delta@chaos.social
@delta I share the feeling about deltachat loosing its 'unique value proposition' (the transparent 'merging' of emails and chat). The technical argument 'we are still 100% using the email infrastructure' is true, but also kind of moot if I can not anymore (easily) use my email address as handle. Combined with the by-design lack of central contact discovery, how am I supposed to know if my contacts are on deltachat? 'In-person'-only discovery is not great UX imho
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · May 17, 2025
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @haeckerfelix@mastodon.social
@haeckerfelix@mastodon.social congrats!! #twig us really what connects me to the community. I love it!! Thanks so much!🤗
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Séverin Lemaignan @severin@hci.social · Aug 07, 2024
Séverin Lemaignan
@severin@hci.social

Social robots tamer & Senior scientist #SocialRobotics #HRI and AI @CSIC @IIIA

hci.social
Replying to @chriswood@mastodon.design
@chriswood@mastodon.design great write up! If you don't know him yet, I encourage you to check the work of @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org -- he is a very respected digital artist in the Linux community, and does regularly extensive testing of free software/hardware setup on Linux, like https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide
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