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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 2 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/games@lemmy.world
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A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago "is lutris slop now" and noted an increasing amount of "LLM generated commits". To which the Lutris creator replied:

It's only slop if you don't know what you're doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn't able to do last year because of health issues / depression.

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I'm not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Moral of the story is don’t let Claude do commits. It insists on crediting itself

Also stop harassing openspurce developers

Also be transparent when you have vibecoded commits. There’s no reason to hide it. Just say that parts of your codebase is vibecoded or coded with ai assist and those who don’t like it can fork it or use something else.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Also be transparent when you have vibecoded commits. There’s no reason to hide it.

I find it rather ironic that one thing they are transparent about is the covering up the evidence that proves it was vibecoded. Apparently, they never heard of the Strainsand Effect.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This. I'm fine with auto complete, snippets and llm suggestions. But I still need to read and review and, critically, comphrend the code. I always review it's work, and most often make changes that I know are better practices.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I’m afraid you are ac dying breed of developer

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 50 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I really hate this new trend of FOSS developers being attacked and harassed for using AI. You might not like if they are using AI. Or you might not like AI at all, but there's no reason to harass people who are providing you free software. Let them develop it like they want. If you don't like that they used AI, use another software. Or fork the software before they started using AI. But attacking people like that is not okay on so many levels. It's not okay to attack people for the software they are using. It's not okay to attack developers providing a free service and it's not okay to attack people at all.

[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The only degenerates attacking open source devs wouldn't even have the capacity to vibe code something themselves. Literal losers. If they're so much better than the devs, fork it and make it yourself fucktard.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Transparency. The developer lied and then stopped crediting Claude.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

That's twisting the order of events.

The developer was marking code when AI was used.

Anti-AI drones started harassing him in Discord, the forums and Github PRs

The developer stopped marking code when AI was used.

The Anti-AI assholes are not participating in development in good faith, this is a harassment campaign. He's taking steps to mitigate the harassment.

The fault and blame here is entirely on the people who thought it was okay to dog pile on a volunteer developer.

[–] lorthirk@feddit.it 1 points 13 hours ago

Claude must be really upset about this. But other people?

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[–] lohky@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There hasn't been anything I haven't been able to run between Heroic and Steam. I didn't like using lutris anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Good

Then don't use it.

But don't harass the dev

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The dev is going to do whatever the dev is going to do. If it works, it works and I don't see much of a problem with it similarly to how I don't have much of a problem using code from StackExchange.

I run into issues with using gen AI to sidestep learning or creativity. I just thought Lutris was hard to use because I'm pretty new to Linux.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 29 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

AI is actively destroying the environment and harming people. Data centers have been caught using methane burner generators (which are banned for use by the EPA) which significantly increase health risk to residents that live nearby (cancer and asthma rates already significantly increased). Then you have the ridiculous effects it is having on computer hardware markets, energy and water infrastructure and prices.

Then after all of that, the AI themselves are hallucinating somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% of the time, and multiple studies have found that people that use them regularly are losing their own skills.

I can't figure out why people would choose to use them. I can't figure out why programming is the one place where people that might have otherwise been considered experts in the field are excited to use them. Writers, artists, lawyers, doctors, basically every other professional field that AI companies have suggested these would be good for, they get trashed by experts in the fields for making garbage. I have a hard time believing the only thing AI can do well is write code when it sucks so badly at everything else it does. Does development suck this much? Do developers have so little idea what they are doing that this seems like a good idea?

[–] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

If you're honestly asking, LLMs are much better at coding than any other skill right now. On one hand there's a ton of high quality open source training data that appropriated, on the other code is structured language so is very well suited for what models "are". Plus, code is mechanically verifiable. If you have a bunch of tests, or have the model write tests, it can check its work as it goes.

Practically, the new high end models, GPT 5.4 or Claude Opus 4.6, can write better code faster than most people can type. It's not like 2 years ago when the code mostly wouldn't build, rather they can write hundreds or thousands of lines of code that works first try. I'm no blind supporter of AI, and it's very emotionally complicated watching it after years honing the craft, but for most tasks it's simple reality that you can do more with AI than without it. Whether it's higher quality, higher volume, or integrating knowledge you don't have.

Professionally I don't feel like I have a choice, if I want to stay employed in the field at least.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Professionally I don’t feel like I have a choice, if I want to stay employed in the field at least.

On the contrary!

I've seen quite a number of "AI cleanup specialist" job offerings so far, and even a few consulting positions on training juniors away from using AI in development.

(No, I have not seen any position open on training management away from using AI...)

[–] Arkthos@pawb.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Now software architecture on the other hand? Oh boy Claude Opus and the rest suck ass at that.

My own experience has been that if you have relatively isolated discrete chunks of code it works pretty well, and it's really nice at reviewing as well. Just unleashing it on a code base and you'll end up with a massive mess.

[–] Netrunner@programming.dev 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You can't fathom why someone would use AI and maybe hurt the environment a little while watching 18 F150s being driven by one person go by while drinking through a paper straw and a billionaire flies a private jet to the neighboring city overhead.

Okay. Sounds like jealousy that you're masking in social justice.

Ever been a developer? If you have it's very easy to see why having AI give you a massive second wind on a project you've given up on is a massive boon.

I've been a developer my entire life and AI is amazing. Sorry you hate it. Does it make mistakes? Yes. Can I fix them? Yes. Can I build skyscrapers now? Yes.

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[–] r1veRRR@feddit.org 71 points 1 day ago (13 children)

From his perspective, he's investing his free time and likely money into a project for people that are 99% of the time just leechers, as in they never contribute back and only complain.

Now he has a tool that he feels helps him deal with all that FREE labor is doing for everyone, and the very same people now want to tell him how to do his FREE labor he does for them.

I completely understand being pissed off by that.

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