A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago “is lutris slop now” and noted an increasing amount of “LLM generated commits”. To which the Lutris creator replied:
It’s only slop if you don’t know what you’re doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn’t able to do last year because of health issues / depression.
There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn’t have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn’t AI that laid off thousands of employees, it’s deluded executives who don’t understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.
I’m not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don’t like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I’m not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.
Anyway, I was suspecting that this “issue” might come up so I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what’s generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.
the temptation of using claude code is probably higher than it looks like for a single dev, I think. Hey, in the end one can just have this in their IDE and essentially have your own unpaid intern. It’s a fairly new situation.
Your own unpaid intern, who is paid by someone else, employed by someone else, and who has access to all your repos secrets and business logic.
Yeah, nah. I think id rather not train my competitors.
Are you hosting your code in any way accesible from the internet? Gitlab, gitea, forgrjo?
Github. We use azure too. I trust Microsoft a hell of a lot more than these AI clowns.
I have bad news for you…
I know I know. To give up so easily is just fatalism though. You have to at least try where you can.
Use local models then.
If i exclude the offline software I use, from xed to libreoffice and the likes, I own very little of the services in my hand.
Yup, single dev here, can confirm. I’m coding for a living but am mediocre at it since I jumped from civil engineering to something I kind of enjoy. To me coding assistants are a huge help. Finding solutions, discussing ideas, writing down implementation plans, can’t do all that stuff with my colleagues since they have no clue about my work.
the hardest part is coming up with ideas when it’s not a job and just an interest, than finding a path to the realisation of these ideas.
The idea is the easy part I need something to do X.
So your not that food and using AI to make your products better so you can sell your coding abilities. Or your better then you think you are.
if you’re interested i used AI to learn a library to make my link-scraping script and return me only the open access pdf from Google scholar. yeah. it is virtually useless because i need to check all the same. But boy did it make me feel smart.