• cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 hours ago

    I love Lutris, but man he really screwed himself with his immature approach to this.

    I was also suspicious that those Claude co-authorship would raise some issues in the open source community

    So he knew it would cause a fuss when it came to light he was using AI, so what does he do?

    I configured Claude code to skip the co-authorship line in git commits.

    Rather than be fully transparent upfront he hides it. And his response when called out on it was doubly childish.

    A lot of people didn’t like how I initially worded my response, something like “good luck figuring out what committed by me or by Claude now that the co-authorship is gone”.

    His justifications for the use of it are irrelevant.

    I still considered the Claude generated code as something I could have written, just slower.

    I also like using Claude to commit code I’ve written myself because it just writes good commit messages…

    And his reasoning for why he thinks people are upset at his use of AI shows he doesn’t understand the issue.

    I think a lot of the critics think that AI generated code should be flawless.

    This doesn’t invalidate the technology as a whole…

    Ignoring the many issues with AI that do invalidate it one of which is its inherently anti-FOSS which I guess he doesn’t seem to mind except under the terms that he might be sued for copying someone’s code.

    Also, there is enough open source code available that I would hope Anthropic doesn’t feel the need to train their models on potentially litigious code base.

    Lmao. Sure.

    In is original comments on Github he shifts the blame to overall capitalism but doesn’t see how continuing to pay into AI and further normalize its use as problematic.

    So he doesn’t seem to get it I guess.

    The rest of the interview is mostly just pro-AI.

    • oddpixel@lemmy.wtf
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      8 hours ago

      Humans love to be lazy when they can be, and AI is a tempting fruit on the tree. People get sold on this vague promise of a shortcut that will allow you to prioritize other things, while whichever plagarism machine arbitrarily inserts whatever code does the job.

      His response is a good example of where a developer of a large project who probably doesn’t get enough help, or just decided that lazy is better than actually doing hard work, has shut off his brain and is relying on a computer that’s incapable of coding standards that benefit the project.

      As a senior FOSS dev of nearly 25 years, AI is going to poison our industry with these types of devs enabling it’s possible demise.