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Lutris maintainer: "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." (github.com)
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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

After reading your comment, I tried it for myself, running "Age Of Wonders 4" through Lutris 0.5.22. Nothing happened. As in, literally nothing, game didn't launch, and no error. Then downgraded Lutris to 0.5.19, and first I got a message saying that wine needed to install something, and then I got an error message saying "A java script error occurred in the main process".

So the results of my experiment are inconclusive. I consider an error message a better than result than nothing visibly happening, because an error message at least tells me nothing its not working, instead of letting me wait and wait.

So, yes, it appears that the quality of Lutris has declined after the developer started using Claude Code. However, my experiment was just a quick and dirty experiment, and ultimately further research is necessary.

I propose the following experiment, keep in mind that this is basically a rough sketch of the procedure:

  1. Set up two virtual machines running linux, a and b. (TODO: Decide on distro)
  2. Install Lutris 0.5.22 on a, and 0.5.19 on b.
  3. Try out several games on both a and b, both installed and launched through lutris, and record how well they run.