Over the past couple weeks, there’s been a lot of discussion around Lutris and its developer, Mathieu Comandon, following comments about using AI tools (specifically Claude) as part of the project’s development.
It’s the kind of topic that can very quickly spiral into wider debates about open
I love Lutris, but man he really screwed himself with his immature approach to this.
So he knew it would cause a fuss when it came to light he was using AI, so what does he do?
Rather than be fully transparent upfront he hides it. And his response when called out on it was doubly childish.
His justifications for the use of it are irrelevant.
And his reasoning for why he thinks people are upset at his use of AI shows he doesn’t understand the issue.
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.
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.
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.