Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code - Ars Technica

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Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code - Ars Technica - Lemmy.ca

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autodetection of dark mode. The Linux solution was provided by ChatGPT and needs to be reviewed before being deployed.

The commit in question.

tweaked launcher window theme. · ZDoom/gzdoom@584af50

* autodetection of dark mode. The Linux solution was provided by ChatGPT and needs to be reviewed before being deployed. * default to system preset instead of light theme. * dark theme is mostly th...

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Holy shit. It’s the end of the world. AI helped code a few lines to detect dark mode on a Linux system!
The problem is here is not AI, the problem here is pushing code that didn’t even compile properly straight to main. It’s a huge collaborative project, running it as a one man show just doesn’t work.
Had he made a PR/Draft, none of this would have happened.

Which by that point they’d already fixed. They mentioned they also accidentally pushed to the wrong branch.

I dunno, this just looks like someone accidentally made a bad commit and instead of being mature about it and letting them fix it we get statements like “all bridges have been burned” and a split in the community. That’s a bit overblown, and if at the first sign of disagreement the decision is to blow up a project you’re making it very hard to work with you.

Well, in that case, fair enough.
However, given that a lot of contributors allude to “putting up” with him for years, it seems it wasn’t just a bad commit that broke the camel’s back
That’s fair, I don’t know what other things have come before. It just seems really odd that there was such a severe reaction to what happened here.