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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 243 points 8 months ago* (22 children)

Before hitting submit I'd worry I've made a silly mistake which would make me look a fool and waste their time.

Do they think the AI written code Just Works (TM)? Do they feel so detached from that code that they don't feel embarrassment when it's shit? It's like calling yourself a fictional story writer and writing "written by (your name)" on the cover when you didn't write it, and it's nonsense.

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  • [–] 175 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I'd worry I've made a silly mistake which would make me look a fool and waste their time.

    AI bros have zero self awareness and shame, which is why I continue to encourage that the best tool for fighting against it is making it socially shameful.

    Somebody comes along saying "Oh look at the image is just genera..." and you cut them with "looks like absolute garbage right? Yeah, I know, AI always sucks, imagine seriously enjoying that hahah, so anyway, what were you saying?"

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Not good enough, you need to poison the data

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't want my data poisoned, I'd rather just poison the AI bros.

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  • [+] 116 points 8 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 63 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They’re not going to maintain it - they’ll just throw it back to the LLM and say “enhance”.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago

    Sigh, now in CSI when they enhance a grainy image they AI will make a fake face and send them searching for someone that doesn't exist, or it'll use a face of someone in the training set and they go after the wrong person.

    Either way I have a feeling they'll he some ENHANCE failure episode due to AI.

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  • [–] 80 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    From what I have seen Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. seem to be running bots that are going around and submitting updates to open source repos with little to no human input.

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  • [–] 71 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Do they think the AI written code Just Works

    yes.

    literally yes.

    It's insane

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    That's how you know who never even tried to run the code.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    that's the annoying part.

    LLM code can range to "doesn't even compile" to "it actually works as requested".

    The problem is, depending on what exactly was done, the model will move mountains to actually get it running as requested. And will absolutely trash anything in its way, From "let's abstract this with 5 new layers" to "I'm going to refactor that whole class of objects to get this simple method in there".

    The requested feature might actually work. 100%.

    It's just very possible that it either broke other stuff, or made the codebase less maintainable.

    That's why it's important that people actually know the codebase and know what they/the model are doing. Just going "works for me, glhf" is not a good way to keep a maintainable codebase

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    LOL. So true.
    On top of that, an LLM can also take you on a wild goose chase. When it gives you trash, you tell it to find a way to fix it. It introduces new layers of complication and installs new libraries without ever really approaching a solution. It’s up to the programmer to notice a wild goose chase like that and pull the plug early on.

    That’s a fun little mini-game that comes with vibe coding.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Reminds me of one job I had where my boss asked shortly after starting there if their entry test was too hard. They had gotten several submissions from candidates that wouldn't even run.

    I envision these types of people are now vibe coding.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I would think that they will have to combat AI code with an AI code recognizer tool that auto-flags a PR or issue as AI, then they can simply run through and auto-close them. If the contributor doesn't come back and explain the code and show test results to show it working, then it is auto-closed after a week or so if nobody responds.

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