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Big Walk Fixed a Bug With AI (thelemmy.club)
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Some awards show controversy had House House disclose possibly the lightest possible LLM usage you can imagine. Anyway it's a Bad Game now.

Amongst all the glut of genuinely vibe coded slop, inventive AI reverse engineering and the plain ol' realities of LLM living in modern software development, I get a bit frustrated seeing it all grouped into one essentialized category.

The common understanding of what AI even is, is at an all-time low, imo. People see 'AI code' next to a game title and imagine someone prompting claude for 20 minutes, and these sorts of stories and over-the-top reactions don't help.

The basics of what happened with this story, is that a particularly bad Unity bug plagued the team and the unity support wasn't being a help. LLM fixed the bug. I'm shocked to see that even this usage is considered unacceptable to some people.

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[–] 20 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

Most people dont want any AI usage whatsoever. Shit is radioactive. Sometimes that bites like in this situation, where had LLMs been kept.local and didnt have the stain of Big Tech it would be seen as cool. But because they are stolen labor spy machines nobody wants them and I agree. Local are cool though, and House House doesnt deserve this hate for this, but the lines in the sand are fully drawn and quartered by now.

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  • [–] 8 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

    the lines in the sand are fully drawn and quartered

    wut

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    What you're not familiar with the common expression "drawing and quartering a line in the sand"?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 20 hours ago

    Yes I do agree that an ideal scenario is local models tailored only for software development and used only by software developers, and I think that'd be the future of the technology in any just society. I don't know if the lines are fully drawn in the sand under our current market dynamics, though. From what I've seen the application of the LLM in the above story is almost standardized now, as in you could accidentally generate the solution to your problem by just Googling. I haven't spoken with someone in programming that hasn't remarked that it's everywhere in the workplace and I haven't seen a git project without a claude contribution in ages.

    Lots of people are vocal about their stance on AI in development, but we're not seeing those principles in practice.

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