There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.

There’s a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Anthropic’s Claude.

Seems like something relevant to talk about, with AI tools being a huge cause of problems in the hardware industry. Like how the Steam Deck is constantly sold out and Valve can’t even give us a price or release date of their upcoming hardware. All because these AI companies are sucking up all component manufacturing for their data centres. Every extra person using all these AI tools is only adding to the issue.

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.

  • rustbuckett@programming.devEnglish
    31·
    11 hours ago

    He’s right. It’s just another tool in the hands of a skilled technician. The upgrade from a hammer to a nailgun didn’t suddenly make everyone a master carpenter, but in the hands of some that knows how to use it, it can greatly increase productivity. We are in the very early stages of AI, and we are working out the details. While it’s not a great comparison, I remember when Windows 95 launched and, when you could find RAM, it was literally worth more than its weight in gold. Small shops had to keep it in a safe. This was because Windows 95 needed at least 8MB ( <- not a typo) of 30 pin SIMM RAM to run well. A couple years later and people were putting them on their keychains as a joke.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      26 minutes ago

      funny, people said this exact same thing when LLMs were still brand new

      Also speaking of RAM, do you know why it’s gotten absurdly expensive all of a sudden?