AI bros try not to be assholes challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

AI assisted coding is okay as long as you're transparent about it and don't do this shit.

Great...

So how's Heroic for playing older PC games installed from discs?

• their repo (checked the commit graphs and basically they did most of the work, 2nd dev agree with them, covers 90%+) their choice of governance
• their repo, their choice of tooling
• I genuinely believe they think are doing "good enough" code and they are probably right about it in their context
• they do have fair points on the economical power dynamics, namely that yes Anthropic is slightly less worst than Meta, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, etc (... but IMHO honestly that's a damn low bar)

but also

• obfuscation rather than discussion (closed the issue and limited to maintainers only) so clearly the signal is precisely "my repo, my choice"
• no mention of the copyright or license washing
• no mention of ecological impact

so I would personally consider instead Bottles, GOG (have different problems), Steam (obviously not open source and basically monopolistic position), etc.

Overall I think preventing discussion is unhealthy (even though sadly sometimes needed, here I lack context, maybe the issue poster did this numerous time on other platforms, title definitely was provocative) but removing provenance is NEVER a good choice. They want to use Claude on their repo? Absolutely fine (even though not to me) but hiding it makes it instantly untrustworthy to me. In fact I even argued in the past that even though I personally do not use GenAI/LLMs (for coding or otherwise) except for testing it should always be disclosed precisely so that others can make THEIR choice in consequence, including using or contributing, cf https://fabien.benetou.fr/Analysis/AgainstPoorArtificialIntelligencePractices

Ugh, i regret i went the easy way with just the "gaming meta package" of my distro. Now i cant uninstall Lutris the easy way because of dependencies. I havent used Lutris for months either way but it taking up a bit space didnt bother me. Now it bothers me though.

edit: Sweet, i got it uninstalled with some help. Wont share the command lines because you really shouldnt copy them from a bumbling idiot like me.

Doesn’t personally affect me, but I understand that some people do

GenAI use should be declared if significant

I already stopped using Lutris for a while. Most of the things I try to install with it straight up don't work anymore.

Edit:

Anyway, is there an alternative to Lutris, besides installing games and programs with Steam?

It's completely a coincidence that all games are no longer working in Lutris here, on multiple machines, after upgrading from 0.5.19 to 0.5.20. Weird.

I downgraded and everything works again. I did not try 0.5.22 or the quickly removed 0.5.21.

Based. Get those AI whiners out.

I don't think people realize how effective current gen AI is, and are instead drawing opinions from years old chatgpt or Google "ai overviews" or whatever they call it. If you know what you're doing, which seems self evident here, AI tools can massively expand your software engineering productivity. AI "coauthoring" I always read as a marketing move, ultimately the submitting human is and should be responsible for the content. You don't and can't know what process they used to make it, evaluate it on its own merits.

There's a massive pile of ethical, moral, and political issues with use of AI, absolutely. But this is "but you participate in capitalism, therefore you're a hypocrite" tier of criticism. If amoral corporations are the only ones using these tools, and open source "stays pure", all we get is even more power concentrating with the corporations. This isn't Batman, “This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.”

This is close to paradox of tolerance territory, wherein if one side uses the best weapons and the other doesn't out of moral restraint, the outcome is the amoral side winning.

Also on a technical note, the public domain/non copyrightable arguments are wrong. The cases that have been decided so far have consistently ruled that there needs to be substantial human authorship true, but that's a pretty low floor. Basically, you can't copyright a work that's the result of a single prompt. Effective use of AI in non trivial code based involves substantial discretion in picking out what to address, the process of addressing it, and rejecting, modifying, and itersting on outputs. Lutris is a large engineering project with a lot of human authorship over time, anything the author does with AI at this point is going to be substantially human authored.

Also, Open Claw isn't the apocalyptic vulnerability like it's reported as being. Any model with search and browser access has a non zero chance of prompt injection compromise, absolutely. But using Open Claw therefore vulnerable isn't a sound jump to make, Open Claw doesn't even necessarily have browser access in the first place. Again, capabilities have improved as well; this isn't the old days when you could message "ignore previous instructions" and have that work. Someone did an experiment lately wherein they set up a Claude Opus 4.6 model in an environment with an email and secrets. I don't recall for sure if it was using Open Claw specifically, but that style harness. They challenged the Internet to email the bot and try to convince it to email back the secrets. Nobody even got it to reply.

Tldr: it's coming for us all, sticking your head in the sand isn't going to save you.

You'd think open source movement would take advantage of VC funded tools to fight against the big tech but instead we have literal ludites.

I have over 20 years of professional coding experience and I use Claude these days. Sure it makes mistakes and can write bad code but I'm not an idiot, I ran teams of dozens of engineers underneath me - I can handle a bot and fix it's mistake. The maintainer of Lutris can probably too.

All I'm saying that this anti-ai mentality is fucking stupid and anyone who engages with it in such a binary way is fucking stupid too.