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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
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What decides if something is slop or not is the thing itself. It is not your "KwaLiFiKaShunz". Bringing up "muh 30 years of XP lol lmao" means jack shit.
If he was co-authoring the code with Claude this means he submitted code made by Claude; he didn't just ask for some examples and implement in his own way. The later would be far more reasonable than the former.
What he said about the problem being capitalism instead of the tool itself is, I believe, valid. However, it should be no excuse to unnecessarily feed that very same economic system, by paying for the bloody tool.
Finally. He could've fixed what people complained about, by removing the commits, so he would keep them happy. He could also stick to his guns, and say "no, I'm not changing it. The Claude code stays". But he did neither; instead he's hiding it from the users. That's pretty much the same as saying "I'm going to treat users as gullible filth and easy to fool, instead of human beings deserving honesty."
A good thing open software can be forked.
But even if he goes metaphorically vegan, his code is still going to feed the AIs.
Which is an entirely different conversation that has nothing to do with this one.
Even if it was the same conversation (as TrickDacy said, it isn't), "you can't avoid the harm completely" is no excuse to avoid causing at least some of that harm.