Moral of the story is don’t let Claude do commits. It insists on crediting itself

Also stop harassing openspurce developers

Also be transparent when you have vibecoded commits. There’s no reason to hide it. Just say that parts of your codebase is vibecoded or coded with ai assist and those who don’t like it can fork it or use something else.

I really hate this new trend of FOSS developers being attacked and harassed for using AI. You might not like if they are using AI. Or you might not like AI at all, but there's no reason to harass people who are providing you free software. Let them develop it like they want. If you don't like that they used AI, use another software. Or fork the software before they started using AI. But attacking people like that is not okay on so many levels. It's not okay to attack people for the software they are using. It's not okay to attack developers providing a free service and it's not okay to attack people at all.

Aaaaand just uninstalled lutris. There are many other ways to install windows games and applications that aren't ensloppified.

From his perspective, he's investing his free time and likely money into a project for people that are 99% of the time just leechers, as in they never contribute back and only complain.

Now he has a tool that he feels helps him deal with all that FREE labor is doing for everyone, and the very same people now want to tell him how to do his FREE labor he does for them.

I completely understand being pissed off by that.

AI is actively destroying the environment and harming people. Data centers have been caught using methane burner generators (which are banned for use by the EPA) which significantly increase health risk to residents that live nearby (cancer and asthma rates already significantly increased). Then you have the ridiculous effects it is having on computer hardware markets, energy and water infrastructure and prices.

Then after all of that, the AI themselves are hallucinating somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% of the time, and multiple studies have found that people that use them regularly are losing their own skills.

I can't figure out why people would choose to use them. I can't figure out why programming is the one place where people that might have otherwise been considered experts in the field are excited to use them. Writers, artists, lawyers, doctors, basically every other professional field that AI companies have suggested these would be good for, they get trashed by experts in the fields for making garbage. I have a hard time believing the only thing AI can do well is write code when it sucks so badly at everything else it does. Does development suck this much? Do developers have so little idea what they are doing that this seems like a good idea?

There hasn't been anything I haven't been able to run between Heroic and Steam. I didn't like using lutris anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly, unfortunately, I agree. It IS unfortunately helpful, and if you're a competent developer using AI tooling, you can make sure it doesn't generate slop. You are responsible for your code, at the end of the day.

AI does generate societal damage, but that's mostly because of how companies abuse it and less because of the technology itself.

I understand the hatred towards AI, but people gotta understand that there's a difference between coding with AI and Vibecoding. They are DIFFERENT THINGS! AI is userful, what is not are both vibecoding and shaming a developer with 30 years of real world experience with no AI support for using it for once. Using AI is ok if you do that critically and with common sense

you can criticise them but ultimately they are a unpaid developer making their work freely available to the benefit of us all. at least don't harass the developer.

I mean, I get if you wanna use AI for that, it's your project, it's free, you're a volunteer, etc. I'm just not sure I like the idea that they're obscuring what AI was involved with. I imagine it was done to reduce constant arguments about it, but I'd still prefer transparency.

Open source stuff is awesome and I really like people improving Linux in their spare time

But, to do it this way is basically saying "fuck you" to the community which is fucked up.

Could have talked about how AI helps him or how he uses it for templates or whatever and damn even if I didn't agree with those points either that's a lot better than being like "alright good luck finding it now then bitch"

I wouldn't mess with anything this guy does anymore after this.

I work for a major software company. They are bragging about how much is AI code now. It’s not just things like lutris.

Somehow hiding the code feels worse than using the code. This whole thing is yuck.