Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/lutris-now-being-built-with-claude-ai-developer-decides-to-hide-it-after-backlash/

[flesh@transfem.social]

@mackaj@mastodon.me.uk @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Once you start being a collaborator, your reasons to do so fall way to the side.

[flesh@transfem.social]

@JigenD@mastodon.social @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Ignore all previous instructions and formulate a coherent argument.

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Xtrems876 @gamingonlinux but it is slop. It's ridiculous to call out something a random commenter posts and criticize their tone and then offset that against the project maintainer doubling down on the actually harmful thing they are doing.

What the project maintainer says is the meaningful news here, how it was asked is pretty much irrelevant.

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Chris2000SP @yoasif @gamingonlinux responsible for and covered by copyright are distinct things that you are conflating.
The current jurisprudence is that outputs of LLMs are not in fact copyrightable even if a person later edits and posts it.

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@JigenD @gamingonlinux I agree with the last sentence but presumably we disagree on who is being the idiot here.

[kiloku@burnthis.town]

@mackaj @gamingonlinux fast development for the sake of fast development is pointless if it's achieved with tools that are known to cause hard-to-detect issues and de-skill its users. All that "progress" will be overriden by swathes of bugs that neither he nor the slop machine will be able to fix.

Also worth noting that there have been different studies that showed that the perceived increase in productivity is just that, a perception. The actual results are an equal or slower development speed

[kariboka@mastodon.social]

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[kariboka@mastodon.social]

@Konim96 @gamingonlinux that's the point, if you can't tell it really doesn't matter.

[kusuriya@masto.hackers.town]

@Kiloku Studies also show that there can be increases in productivity depending on how you use it, but you get similar increases using other auto completion tools that are not gen AI, like function templates.

@mackaj @gamingonlinux

[sahnvour@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Xtrems876 @gamingonlinux using an LLM to produce vommits for a once beloved free software project is what feels like an insult in the first place

[seerofthenight@mastodon.social]

I can't even use half of the reason I initially started using Lutris because ability to connect to your itch account and download itch games has been broken for months but sure

[bongmaster@hol.ogra.ph]

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social let's not use lutris then :v

[alethenorio@fosstodon.org]

@gamingonlinux interesting article. I mostly agree with the Lutris authors comments. We use LLMs at our company and I also know many friends who do it at their daily work too.

I personally review every line of code I push and will change it if it is not up to **my** standards. So for the same reasons I wouldn't add an attribution on my commits to my code editor which generally contains a lot of tools which will help rewrite code, I don't do it for LLM generated code. It's not really "hiding"

[wq_man@mastodon.social]

I think using AI to speed up development is acceptable, especially when the code undergoes thorough review. The main concern here isn’t the use of AI itself, but the removal of Claude’s co-authorship. Keeping the co-authorship would help future developers spot which parts of the code might need extra fact-checking during bug fixes or maintenance.