So when the news circulated recently that the Lutris developer was using Claude to help write the code (and the angry posts/articles appeared) I figured I’d reach out to Mathieu to hear his side of things.
I chatted to him a little, asking for his side of the story. He goes into some depth on how he uses it as part of his work-flow, the transparency in open-source projects in general, licensing and ownership of code that A.I. writes, safety and so on. Plenty of answers from Lutris, if you’re curious on the topic. As ever, you can find the link here:
https://gardinerbryant.com/mathieu-comandon-explains-his-use-of-ai-in-lutris-development/
As someone who’s job involved VB6 just two years ago. I think we have a very different experience of software development. Sure there’s some companies who rush to the newest, but for others that costs money, they expect you to just keep plodding along with the tools you have.
If you were using VB6 just 2 years ago then it’s pretty clear to me that you were in a niche, and the exception rather than the rule.
My state’s lottery team still use cobol, my buddy is working in fortran, and many sites I touched are running on php7 (discontinued in Nov 22). Not sure it’s really all that niche to work on old tech.