sudo apt purge lutris r.i.p.
There should be a A.I. free Fork
Go ahead. Contribute your own personal time and fork. Be the change you want to see instead of bring prejudice and screeching at some guy giving up his free time so you can play video games.
Using AI to help generate your code invalidates the copyright, so using Claude invalidates their GPL license.
He used OpenClaw to write and commit code. That shows a complete lack of care for even the most bottom of the barrel security standards.
If there’s any valid reason for someone to be ridiculed over using AI, it’s that.
lol wow, apparently the stealthing was even more roundly ridiculed than the contributions - and rightly so:
Update - 13/03/2026 11:10 UTC - The Lutris creator has restored the Claude attribution, with a comment noting “Since it’s such a big fuss, I’m putting the Claude attribution back”.
Also, what an absolute limpdick way to respond. Dude seems like a complete chode who is missing the whole fucking point. If he is an “engineer with 30 years experience”, he should fucking know better.
I’m curious, are you a developer? I’m just a hobbyist but reading his comment on the article it seemed reasonable. The problem is the capitalist handling of technology, not the technology. And tools like Claude are actually very helpful with coding, provided you have an understanding of the subject matter and aren’t just copy pasting what it’s giving you.
Yes, I am. I just happen to be quite against the usage of CodeGen LLMs (and LLMs in general) for an absolute litany of reasons - based on topics including, but not limited to:
- efficiency of implementation (it’s just enormous piles of markov chains brute forcing inputs into stochastic outputs; or: why aren’t we exploring analog implementations for this, which is a much better architectural fit in terms of the physical silicon)
- energy impact (it’s massively spiking utility bills for shitloads of people, because the cost is being socialized)
- ecolological (including auditory) and hydrological impact
- economic impact (bubble tiem)
- unbelievably huge licensing issues that are consistently hand-waved away or summarily dismissed without meaningful comment
- double-standard of piracy (it’s ok if OpenAI does it, but it’s not ok if you do it)
- societal impact, including how trivial it is now to generate completely fabricated text, visual, audio, and video content from effectively nothing
- professional impact (leadership prioritizing AI bullshit over pretty much anything else)
- impact on the domain and profession of computer science itself (companies have significantly cut back or eliminated hiring juniors/entry-levels)
- hobbyist impact (where the fuck are homelabbers supposed to buy RAM and SSD nowadays, let alone GPUs?)
I can go on, but I’ll leave it there for now.
I wish people would highlight the hypocrisy of the whole licensing/copyright issue and piracy issue.
Alternative title: Lutris lead dev decides to torpedo own reputation and codebase
Here’s an idea. Don’t hate on unpaid open source developers that are suffering from depression. If you don’t like it, fork it and move on with your day.
Also, developer using AI = bad is the dumbest take. Great engineers are hard to come by. I guarantee you have used code written by a developer who is less competent than this engineer using Claude.
I do however understand the environmental impact and all the annoying AI hype. All I’m asking is we don’t be rude to unpaid open source developers.
An incompetent human is better than throwing a bunch of dice and hoping that it’s the answer. An engineer that tells me that instead of using a hammer, they shoot a hole in the wall with a gun because it makes it easier to put a nail in, is not an engineer but a walking threat.
Also, you’re not an open source dev if you use AI, your a code ape copying and stealing unattributed code.
I think it’s better to think of AI as a nail gun. If you give a nail gun to an idiot, they will ruin your project much quicker than they would with a hammer. But in the right hands, a nail gun is very effective. You blame the person, not the tool.
The responsibility still falls on my shoulders. If I merge the code the LLM presents to me without reading it, I’m the one getting fired, not the LLM. Anyone who’s merging Claude’s code without understanding it is dumb.
No because the nail gun is a proper tool that has been made properly.
But actually thanks for making me think about it, because my example is inaccurate. It’s not like shooting in the wall, but more like giving a gun to a trained monkey and telling it to shoot at the wall.
Sure, you can wear a helmet and tell people to duck so they don’t get shot, and sure it is easier than using a hammer yourself. However everyone would agree that it’s stupid as fuck.
LLMs don’t understand code. They don’t understand anything at all, to be exact.
So why on earth would you give to a tool that has the sole purpose of bullshitting convincingly, the task of doing skilled labor on complex systems?
Also, in your example, a nailgun would be a framework or whatever, that is making your job easier. It still has to be reliable. In no way could AI be likened to that.
Idk, but I bet if you gave an LLM to a monkey it would still build better software than Microsoft.
