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
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.