Yeah I mean. It's not like AI can think. It's just a glorified text predictor, the same you have on your phone keyboard

At a minimum, the agent should be compiling the code and running tests before handing things back to you. "It references non-existent APIs" isn't a modern problem.

I create custom embedded devices with displays and I've found it very useful for laying things out. Like asking it to take secondly wind speed and direction updates and build a Wind Rose out of it, with colored sections in each petal denoting the speed... it makes mistakes but then you just go back and reiterate on those mistakes. I'm able to do so much more, so much faster.

The symptoms you describe are caused by bad prompting. If an AI is providing over-complicated solutions, 9 times out of 10 it's because you didn't constrain your problem enough. If it's referencing tools that don't exist, then you either haven't specified which tools are acceptable or you haven't provided the context required for it to find the tools. You may also be wanting too much out of AI. You can't expect it to do everything for you. You still have to do almost all the thinking and engineering if you want a quality project - the AI is just there to write the code. Sure, you can use an AI to help you learn how to be a better engineer, but AIs typically don't make good high-level decisions. Treat AI like an intern, not like a principal engineer.

I had the same experience. Asked a local LLM about using sole Qt Wayland stuff for keyboard input, a the only documentation was the official one (which wasn't a lot for a noob), no.examples of it being used online, and with all my attempts at making it work failing. it hallucinated some functions that didn't exist, even when I let it do web search (NOT via my browser). This was a few years ago.

It's mostly not a thing developers do. It's a thing the tools themselves do when asked to make a commit.

It's typical of dev burnout, though. Communication starts becoming more impulsive and less constructive, especially in the face of conflicts of opinions.

I've seen it play a few times already. A toxic community will take a dev who's already struggling, troll them, screenshot their problematic responses, and use that in a campaign across relevant places such as github, reddit, lemmy... Maybe add a little light harassment on the side, as a treat. It's a fun activity ! The dev spirals, posts increasingly unhinged responses and often quits as a result.

The fact that the thread is titled "is lutris slop now" is a clear indication that the intention of the poster wasn't to contribute anything constructive but to attack the dev and put them on their back foot.

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You might as well donate to Anthropic.

Nothing is being hidden from review. The code is open source. They removed the specific attribution that indicates which parts of the code were created using Claude. That changes absolutely nothing about the ability to review the code, because a code review should not distinguish between human written code and machine written code; all of it should be checked thoroughly. In fact, I would argue that specifically designating code as machine written is detrimental to code review, because there will be a subconscious bias among many reviewers to only focus on reviewing the machine code.

For full disclosure, I remembered once someone claimed to me there are AI models that use much less power. But, to confirm that statement before replying, I looked up an investigation, and they say it’s much murkier, and that a company’s own claims are usually understating it. So, you’re on point.

Indeed, as they said in Italian "if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike" ... the reasoning might be theoretically correct but in the current situation it's just not the case.

And the incredible amount of damage and destruction it's still inflicting on the environment, society, and the economy.

No amount of output is worth that cost, even if it was always accurate with no unethical training.

There's actually a number of options. Lutris and Bottles are both built on top of Wine. And there are other apps that use Wine to make it all work, but I'm not very familiar with anything else...yet!

Bottles can be a little tricky to get used to - one of the biggest issues is that it sandboxes the Wine runtime, so you'll often need to move your .exe into the right file path. But, other than that I found it pretty easy to use! So if you need something that you can "drop in" to replace Lutris, it's worth a try! It has some helpful preconfigured runtime environments, depending on if you are running a general propose application or a video game. For the power users, you can even start with a blank slate.

If you're talking about games, I usually just add the exe to Steam as a non-Steam game and enable proton for it

Except they have to actually corner the market.

And if there's anything LLMs don't lack, it's competition.

Amazon is the exception, not the rule. Check the history of the dotcom bubble, including amazon. Uber is no longer allowed to lose money like it once was. That's why they've switched from cheap rides and good pay, to algorithmic pricing and shit pay.

That's a separate problem, tbh. Tell your reps you're not happy that they're selling you out.