They are on liberapay if you want to support the project btw. Combined with Patreon, they sit at less than 700$ a week. That’s like half a dev before tax
Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
nialv7@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
you can criticise them but ultimately they are a unpaid developer making their work freely available to the benefit of us all. at least don’t harass the developer.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
They want to put clanker code that they freely admit they don’t validate into a product that goes on the computers of people who’s experience with Linux is “I heard it’s faster for games”
It’s irresponsible to hide it from review. It doesn’t matter if AI tools got better, AI tools still aren’t perfect and so you still have to do the legwork. Or at least let your community.
Also, you should let your community make ethics decisions about whether to support you.
Overall it was a rash reaction to being pressured rudely in a GitHub thread; but you know AI is a contentious topic and you went in anyway. It’s weak AF to then have a tantrum and spit in the community’s face about it.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Nothing is being hidden from review. The code is open source. They removed the specific attribution that indicates which parts of the code were created using Claude. That changes absolutely nothing about the ability to review the code, because a code review should not distinguish between human written code and machine written code; all of it should be checked thoroughly. In fact, I would argue that specifically designating code as machine written is detrimental to code review, because there will be a subconscious bias among many reviewers to only focus on reviewing the machine code.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You make a fair point, but I feel like the trolling reaction they gave was asking for more backlash. Not responding was probably the best move.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 3 hours ago
It’s typical of dev burnout, though. Communication starts becoming more impulsive and less constructive, especially in the face of conflicts of opinions.
I’ve seen it play a few times already. A toxic community will take a dev who’s already struggling, troll them, screenshot their problematic responses, and use that in a campaign across relevant places such as github, reddit, lemmy… Maybe add a little light harassment on the side, as a treat. It’s a fun activity ! The dev spirals, posts increasingly unhinged responses and often quits as a result.
The fact that the thread is titled “is lutris slop now” is a clear indication that the intention of the poster wasn’t to contribute anything constructive but to attack the dev and put them on their back foot.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I see your point. I might also have responded poorly to that, on some level at least.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 3 hours ago
Yeah same. I’d like to think i’d answer “I’ll use AI, if you don’t like it you can fork the project and i wish you good luck. Go share your opinion on AI in an appropriate place.”. But realistically there’s a high chance it catches me on a bad day and i get stupid.
aksdb@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Trolling? They gave a pretty good answer explaining their reasoning.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Seems pretty obvious to me that they knew this wouldn’t go over well. It was inflammatory by design.
aksdb@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yeah ok. True. I think the rest of the post has much more weight, though. But yeah, he should have swallowed that last sentence.