Before you get too excited though; if AI use is something you feel strongly about, you might want to look away from Harbour Masters. As popular as their ports are for various retro Nintendo games, they appear to be using generative AI quite a lot (from PCGamingWiki). Like a growing number of open source releases on GitHub, they appear to be using Claude and Copilot.

They have an AI Policy and all that notes “Harbour Masters is not an Anti AI organization, however, we are Anti Slop”.

They might be Anti-Slop for now with their leads and experience but when they retire or leave…