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Oh great the campaign of harassment is continuing. Keep going guys, hopefully you can get another dev to quit a project, and I know none of the people commenting here have what it takes to fork and maintain it.
You wouldn't be doing anything different if you were getting paid by corporate interests to hurt the open source movement. Great job you can be proud of yourselves.
Well either does the maintainer it seems. And I don't believe we look at all code. It is hard to understand someone else's code hell its hard to understand your own after awhike.
Edit: To preface this, I concede that targeted harassment against individuals isn't a good solution to the problems I have with the way the technology is being used.
Others mention that some recent versions appear to have been unusable. If this is due to LLM-generated code and the dev doubles down on using it, I'm not sure there's too much value in them carrying on development and burying more artificially generated foot guns in there than human coding tends to have already.
That aside, the climate, economic and social problems of the GenAI boom are hardly unknown. For the dev to ignore that is... distasteful. If they won't quit using LLMs without also quitting the project, Lutris might end up another regrettable victim of the AI-Slopalypse.
Opposing GenAI isn't trying to hurt the Open Source movement, it's trying to call out the false messiah that has deluded some people into believing it's the future of software development.
Never had an issue with Lutris. Using AI doesn't necessarily mean vibecoding
Opposing GenAI is free. Do it. It just consists of not using the software you don't agree with. It's great I do it all the time.
Coordinating attacks on social media to harass a developer is not great. It's 4chan-like but at least the 4chan goblins know that they are the bad guys. This is just as slimy but with none of the self awareness.
That doesn't mitigate the environmental damage caused by others using it. I'm not opposed to the technology, nor strictly to its application, but to the irresponsible wau it's being handled currently.
You're right, I agree on that. Efforts should target the companies that offer it, rather than individuals.
I'm not sure the 4chan goblins actually believe they are bad guys so much as ironically embrace that image
Well i guess that's a great reason to harass individuals who never wished harm on anybody then 🤷
Read the rest of the comment. It's not.
Yeah i get it. It's just that the whole situation pisses me off to no end. There are exponentially more people destructively contributing to this campaign, than people constructively contributing code to projects. Cause it's easy and lazy and takes literally zero effort.
The only effect is to punish developers for having successful projects. They'd be fine if they were just dicking around on toy projects, but they chose to do something that matters, and to do it for free, and now they have haters. A lot more haters than helpers too !
We are collectively sending the message that it's better not to stick your head out and publish open source code, and this will wreak havoc on the already overtaxed FOSS ecosystem. Corporate tech must be rubbing its hand in glee now that we're doing what they never achieved in 30 years.
I like the implication that open source code must include AI, and so the only recourse is to reject... all open source projects?
You know, we had a FOSS without AI like ten years ago. I'd prefer to keep that one.
Then you're reading it wrong. My comment says nothing of the sort.
The implication here is that it's better not to publish open source code because somewhere down the road, you might make a decision that some crowd doesn't like and they will start messing with your shit. If you do your own thing in private, hand code it if you like, vibe code it if you like, you don't have any problem and you're safe. If you write private code for your corporate overlord, no problem, you're safe AND you're getting paid. But if you share your stuff, and you're unlucky enough that it becomes popular, then some internet mob might harass you at some point.
In that context you'd be pretty stupid to donate your time and energy to anything open. You'll get maybe 10 contributors in a decade, willing to help you along the way. But one misstep and you'll get hundreds of haters. The game just isn't worth it.
I see we're going with the "woke cancel culture ruined comedy" argument.
Mate, if you're going to take your ball and leave over the slight possibility that you might have to answer to some criticism one day, you're not really living in the civilized society that I do. It seems kind of pointless to even talk to you.
What a load of brainrot. You're a psychopath if you believe it's okay to campaign against a volunteer developer for the sin of having created free stuff in a way that doesn't 100% aligns with your values. On reddit, lemmy, fucking Xitter of all places, on Discord, on Github. Yup. Totally normal way to treat a guy who's been pivotal to gaming on linux for 2 decades while you sat on your collective asses.
I get that we live in an ultra-individualistic moment of history, where people like you feel empowered to shit on the efforts of others. I get that the current geo/politic/economic situation has you convinced that you can do anything to anyone without any repercussions ever. You're just learning by example after all.
I also get that the social media climate would have you believe this is normal human behavior. But it is not. Fuck you and your ilk.
The efforts of AI, you mean.
Truthfully, I wonder if we even need that guy's 20 years any more. Maybe he should retire.
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Gloves are off.
Y'all are just prejudice. Making up what ifs and whatanoutism. If you think you can do better then fork it. But you can't, and won't.
I don't think pointing out problematic aspects of LLM use is whataboutism, given that the maintainer's LLM use is the topic of conversation. A whataboutism would be "But what about Microsoft? They use GenAI too!" because that has nothing to do with this specific developer using it.
This is simply about the reasons I disapprove of using GenAI in general and relying on LLMs for coding in particular.
There are a lot of things I can't do myself. I don't see how that should mean I can't criticise the way they are done.
It also doesn't mean people have to stop using it entirely. Approval is not a binary. This isn't a company we're paying money to, it's not an atrocity, and it's not particularly large in scale (which is why making a witch-hunt out of it is dumb too).