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I mean, I get if you wanna use AI for that, it's your project, it's free, you're a volunteer, etc. I'm just not sure I like the idea that they're obscuring what AI was involved with. I imagine it was done to reduce constant arguments about it, but I'd still prefer transparency.
I tried fitting AI into my workloads just as an experiment and failed. It'll frequently reference APIs that don't even exist or over engineer the shit out of something could be written in just a few lines of code. Often it would be a combo of the two.
Yeah I mean. It's not like AI can think. It's just a glorified text predictor, the same you have on your phone keyboard
It's like having an idiot employee that works for free. Depending on how you manage them, that employee can either do work to benefit you or just get in your way.
Only it's not free. If you run it in the cloud, it's heavily subsidized and proactively destroying the planet, and if you run it at home, you're still using a lot of increasingly unaffordable power, and if you want something smarter than the average American politician, the upfront investment is still very significant.
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.
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.
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.
I see your point. I might also have responded poorly to that, on some level at least.
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.
Tbh I agree, if the code is appropriate why care if it’s generated by an LLM
It's still made by the slop machine, the same one that could only be created by stealing every human made artwork that's ever been published. (And this is not "just one company", every LLM has this issue.)
Not only that, the companies building massive datacenters are taking valuable resources from people just trying to live.
If the developer isn't able to keep up, they should look for (co-)maintainers. Not turn to the greedy megacorps.
If the developer isn't able to keep up, they should look for (co-)maintainers.
Same energy as "Just go on Twitter and ask for free voice actors," a la Vivziepop. A lot of people think this kind of shit is super easy, but realistically, it's nearly impossible to get people to dedicate that kind of effort to something that can never be more than a money/time sink.
It's all about curation and review. If they use AI to make the whole project, it's going to be bloated slop. If they use it to write sections that they then review, edit, and validate; then it's all good.
I'm fairly anti-AI for most current applications, but I'm not against purpose-built tools for improving workflow. I use some of Photoshop's generative tools for editing parts of images I'm using for training material. Sometimes it does fine, sometimes I have to clean it up, and sometimes it's so bad it's not worth it. I'm being very selective, and if the details are wrong it's no good. In the end, it's still a photo I took, and it has some necessary touchups.
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.
Somehow hiding the code feels worse than using the code. This whole thing is yuck.
Worth mentioning that the user that started the issue jumps around projects and creates inflammatory issues to the same effect. I'm not surprised lutris' maintainer went off like they did, the issue is not made with good faith.
Yes, both threads are led by two accounts with probably less than 50 commits to their names during the last year, none of which are of any relevance to the subject they are discussing.
In a world where you could contribute your time to make some things better, there is a certain category of people who seek out nice things specifically to harm them. As open source enters mainstream culture, it also appears on the radar of this kind of people. It's dangerous to catch their attention, as once they have you they'll coordinate over reddit, lemmy, github, discord to ruin your reputation. The reputation of some guy who never ever did them any harm apart from bringing them something they needed, for free, but in a way that doesn't 100% satisfy them. Pure vicious entitlement.
I'd sooner have a drink with a salesman from OpenAI than with one of them.
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.
Yeah, this is actually one of the good things a technology like this can do.
He's dead right, in terms of slop, if it's someone with training and experience using a tool, it doesn't matter if that tool is vim or claude. It ain't slop if it's built right.
It ain't slop if it's built right.
Yeah but the problem is, is it? They absolutely insist that we use AI at work, which is not only insane concept in and of itself, but the problem is that if I have to nanny it to make sure it doesn't make a mistake then how is it a useful product?
He says it helps him get work done he wouldn't otherwise do, but how's that possible? how is it possible that he is giving every line of code the same scrutiny he would if he wrote it himself, if he himself admits that he would never have got around to writing that code had the AI not done it? The math ain't matching on this one.
To admit some context: My company has strongly encouraged some AI usage in our coding. They also encourage us to be honest about how helpful, or not, it is. Usually, I tell them it turns out a lot of garbage and once in a while helps make a lengthy task easier.
I can believe him about there being a sweet spot; where it's not used for everything, only for processes that might have taken a night of manual checks. The very real, very reasonable backlash to it is how easily a poor management team or overconfident engineer will fall away from that sweet spot, and merge stuff that hasn't had enough scrutiny.
Even Bernie Sanders acknowledged on the senate floor that in a perfect world, where AI is owned by people invested in world benefit, moderate AI use could improve many people's lives. It's just sad that in 99.9% of cases, we're not anywhere near that perfect world.
I don't totally blame the dev for defending his use of AI backed by industry experience, if he's still careful about it. But I also don't blame people who don't trust it. It's kind of his call, and if the avoidance of AI is important enough to you, I'd say fork it. I think it's a small red flag, but not nearly enough of one for me to condemn the project.
I understand the hatred towards AI, but people gotta understand that there's a difference between coding with AI and Vibecoding. They are DIFFERENT THINGS! AI is userful, what is not are both vibecoding and shaming a developer with 30 years of real world experience with no AI support for using it for once. Using AI is ok if you do that critically and with common sense
If it's making commits for you you're vibe coding.
I use it at work, I use it for troubleshooting and if I get it to generate anything for me, I stage them and review them before committing myself
I don't support the use of AI tools in general, but i have a soft spot for long-term maintainers. These people generally don't have enough support for this to be a full-time hobby, and when a project becomes popular the pressure is massive.
If the community wont step up to take the burden off the maintainer, but they still want active development, what can you do? As long as the program continues to be high quality, i cant complain about a free thing.
If he's using like an IDE and not vibe coding then I don't have much issue with this. His comment indicates that he has a brain and uses it. So many people just turn off their brain when they use AI and couldn't even write this comment I just wrote without asking AI for assistance.
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?
If he'd just forgone that last paragraph...
Up until recently, Lutris worked perfectly for me. Ever since around the release of Wine 11, though, cant get anything to even install, let alone play. This might explain my increasing frustration with the app.
Guess I'm going back to using Bottles for the odd game or app I don't feel like trying to shoehorn into steam.
Open source stuff is awesome and I really like people improving Linux in their spare time
But, to do it this way is basically saying "fuck you" to the community which is fucked up.
Could have talked about how AI helps him or how he uses it for templates or whatever and damn even if I didn't agree with those points either that's a lot better than being like "alright good luck finding it now then bitch"
I wouldn't mess with anything this guy does anymore after this.
Im.not against the usage of AI in general. The problem only comes up if the human literally relies on it, but if you are using it for learning, quickly scrolling documentation or make code in a critical manner and with years of normal programming experience, that's fine. Bro had 30 years of development experience so I guess he knows what good code looks like
Even then, it feels dishonest to hide when such a historically unreliable tool is being used.