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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
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Great way to torpedo any trust people might’ve had in your project.
It is kind of hilarious that this is actually the issue here. Sure, using AI for coding can be problematic. But then going back and removing any reference to it just to fuck with people even more. Damn.
While I hate AI as much as the next guy. It's also entirely true that people are attacking and harassing people for using making them a worse problem.
I'm entirely down for fucking with the dipshits who can't help themselves but be massive twats.
If your going to have a shit show might as well make it a good one.
I think it's hilarious how much it's bothering you guys
CAREFUL! That's borderline troll thinking.
Oh you don't like to know when we put shit in your food so you can scrutinize it? Fine we'll just not tell you.
Congratz now ALL of it contains shit.
Schrodinger’s Backdoor
All jokes aside, Windows (pre ai) was filled with backdoors now. Still is, probably has more, but it never stopped them in the past.
"Haha now you won't know what is or isn't slop!!"
"But then we'll just assume it's all slop..."
"...D'oh!!!"
They'd assume that anyway. The self-proclaimed haters have a one-drop rule.
That's why this author didn't exactly announce it - they were trying to dodge a harassment campaign.
Then they don't read very much. They streisand effected themselves.
Yeah, nah. Damage has been done already.
He should've stuck with his guns and said "the Claude code stays".
He did. You may have misunderstood.
I mean he should have simply stated "the Claude code stays", instead of hiding which were the Claude commits.
I think you mean Claude cope.
They are making the point that you won't be able to tell the difference. & It's a salient one.
Doesn't give much confidence in their coding abilities then.
Okay. I guess you want the volunteer open source dev to write everything by hand from scratch so it will pass your high standards. That's on you, honestly.
Ahh yes, how dare a community run and funded project have community accountability.
The project has several ways of being community funded.
Yes, that is what we want. Or at least everything past boilerplate templates.
Thats like…exactly how its been done up to this point???
Even if that were true, which it isn't, there are plenty of other reasons to scrutinize any use of "generative" AI.
Like...?
Like that it produces hallucinated bullshit and anyone can see that with any given 2-3 Google searches now. It's literally impossible to miss that if you use the Internet now.
I'm not a fanboi of AI, but also not all AI is equally capable. You can be upset for ethical reasons, you can dislike some things it produces for style reasons, and yes it does sometimes produce code that feels like it should work, even though it doesn't. All of these things are true.
But also Claude doing coding is very different than the AI answers on Google searches, and even those are much better than a cherry-picked highlight reel of bad results on a blog post.
Again, you don't have to like AI or agree with its use, but claiming the code Claude produces is fully bullshit because some customer support chatbot does a bad job is just being misinformed. You should at least know your enemy and its capabilities.
You took that way too literally