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Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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The Godot Engine team recently posted about more issues with "AI slop", including various pull requests that have become a big drain on resources.

You've likely seen other projects talking about this across the net, because AI agents and people who use various generative AI tools are generating code and submitting it to lots of projects to pump up their numbers - often while having no clue what the code does and not even testing it. This is becoming a bigger problem as time goes on.

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[–] 39 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I'm concerned that this AI slop will hinder Godot to become a better alternative to untiy/unreal. May the bubble pop soon enough.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Considering the latest news from Unity, all Godot has to do is exist to become a better alternative.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I mean unreal is not a bad engine but the main problem with it is the company:
    And there are in-house/bespoke engines that that ain't for everyone.
    But i hope godot does well.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm biased but I would say unreal has been a "bad engine" (still better than unity regardless of parent company) because it encourages bloat and is bloated. Is it really that good once you remove it's graphics fidelity? (Genuine question because I abandoned it before deep diving into it) We really need to go back to the roots of lightweight and optimized "apps" such as Godot.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think the graphics part i agree, but isnt the main purpose developers use UE Over Unity is Graphics???
    And for optimizations, I heard that its the developers fault for the optimization. (Or atleast one of my friends who is a UE dev told me)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There's probably a ton of reasons why someone would want to use unreal. Blueprints for example.

    As far as "it's the devs fault", the unreal editor itself takes forever to load and requires installation vs Godot being nearly instant and portable binary. Systems like nanite or lumen while cool have been reported by some as traps that can make games feel really unoptimized.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I do not think the bubble popping will fix this.

    1. people are incentivized to make plausible looking submissions regularly for jobs. The bubble popping will not remove the need for jobs or metrics.
    2. the AI tools required to make OK submissions are already developed, with open source alternatives and many potential places they can be hosted. I think hosting will get cheaper if the bubble pops, as all those data centers come online and look to sell compute.
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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    We need some combination of:

    • Different incentives for contributors; companies stop caring about regular code contributions.
    • Strict submission criteria that's very cheap to enforce.

    These are human problems, but annoying difficult ones.

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