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People shouldn't attack FOSS devs for using AI. You might not like AI, you might not like the AI companies, but it's crazy to attack people providing free software for how they are creating that software. This is a bad path and will only lead to devs burning out, throwing the towel, and then we have less software around. Lutris is a nice piece of software, so good for the dev. And the AI haters should just fuck off.

Update: not hiding it anymore. https://github.com/lutris/lutris/discussions/6530#discussioncomment-16107836

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.

Great way to torpedo any trust people might’ve had in your project.

"You didn't like what I was doing? No fucking problem I'll just lie about it moving forward"

Having read the article, some points from the dev make sense, but also he acted like a princess by the end, so a bit of a messy situation.

Uninstalled, bye bye ai slop.

I'll be uninstalling tonight.

I'm not gonna lie, Lutris is fucking terrible. Basic QOL things are missing. There's so many disjointed ways of doing so many things. The same 2-5 things need to be set every time you add an app and it's basically all manual because they have done nothing to make it better. There's thousands and switches and options, and the only way to find information about what they do is to hit the web... and then you find out so many of them are probably useless.

There's built in install scripts for things but trying to figure out any information about them within the program itself is also useless.

Then there's the shit that just doesn't work. Other tools like Heroic Games Launcher are the only way to install games from providers like epic. You can spend hours troubleshooting this in Lutris, and maybe even get an epic game to install and run once... but everything is going to be a broken mess on try 2.

Just a disappointing app all around once you really start working with it. It's a shame it seems to be the default mode wine app manager.

I just removed Lutris and tried out Bottles last night. How have I never tried it before? It’s so good!

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.

Oh poop, been using lutris and it was pretty good at what it was doing for me. What might be alternatives though?

Got it, so block any further updates till there's a backtrack or a fork.