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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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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 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 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 condensed is vibecoded or coded with ai assist and those who don’t like it can fork it or use something else.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes 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 24 minutes ago

I’m afraid you are ac dying breed of developer

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 49 points 17 hours ago (6 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.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml -3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure anymore whether THEY are providing FOSS or just approving slop PRs. I do not like harassment at all, even less against a guy that says is/was dealing with depression. That's why I comment here. Being said that, it's kind of a jerk move to just hide the fact he is using this tool for development under his own name. As a teacher, few things would make me more mad than having a student doing this.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean does it really matter? people are using his software and it is totally irrelevant how he is developing it. It doesn't matter if he is scribbling it on paper or using VS Code or something else or an AI tool. He can develop the software as he likes. You can walz into an open source project and demand that the project has to work according to your own standards. We are not in school - in school the cheating with AI is hindering your learning progress, but if you want to use a coding agent as adult, just do it. And you don't have to disclose it because why should you? You also don't disclose that you are using code auto-completion or some other technology.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml -4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

That's where we are different. I don't use Lutris, now I'm sure I won't be trying it. Of course there are people who think this is relevant. I didn't think I'd have to explain to you that it is not about them using AI as a tool, it's about not giving enough information about their authorship what concerns me. I suppose they accept donations, well, it is important to me that part of my donations don't end up with companies that hurt the environment and people's jobs. Did auto-completion technologies steal almost all humankind constructed knowledge? Do they need catastrophic amounts of environmental resources to work? Do they produce grave diseases to whole populations near them? Did they disrupt several markets for being created? How many employments did they ruin?

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 6 points 4 hours ago

Does it really matter? You do not know how commercial software is being developed. In most cases you do not even know which language is used and AI usage is also not disclosed. You do not know this about your phone, you do not know about your appliances, you do not know how the software in your car is being made, you do not know how everything you're using every day is being created. I'm not sure why you have other standards for open source software. And please do not tell me that you are only using open source software in your car or in the train you're using as public transit.

And yes, there might be harm, but let's be honest, every other company around there is doing harm to someone or the environment. And if an open source dev uses AI this is really not the fight you want to do. fight against oil companies or something like that. factory farming, the car industry, big tech and all the other industries doing real harm. Attacking the dev of Lutris is not the fight anyone should put some effort in.

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[–] lohky@lemmy.world 5 points 12 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 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Good

Then don't use it.

But don't harass the dev

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes 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 30 points 19 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?

[–] Netrunner@programming.dev 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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.

[–] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 7 points 13 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 2 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 5 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.

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[–] r1veRRR@feddit.org 80 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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