I built a MAL clone using AI, nearly 700 commits of AI. Obviously I was responsible for the quality of the output and reviewing and testing that it all works as expected, and leading it in the right direction when going down the wrong path, but it wrote all of the code for me.

There are other MAL clones out there, but none of them do everything I wanted, so that’s why I built my own project. It started off as an inside joke with a friend, and eventually materialized as an actual production-ready project. It’s limited more by design of the fact that it relies on database imports and delta edits rather than the fact that it was written by AI, because that’s just the nature of how data for these types of things tend to work.

And if the maintainer doesn’t agree to merge your changes, what to you do then?

You have to build your own project, where you get to decide what gets added and what doesn’t.

I don’t really agree, I think that’s kind of a problem with approaching it. I’ve built some pretty large projects with AI, but the thing is, you have to approach it the same way you should be approaching larger projects to begin with - you need to break it down into smaller steps/parts.

You don’t tell it “build me an entire project that does X, Y, Z, and A, B, C”, you have to tackle it one part at a time.

Yep, it’s good for your health in moderation. As long as it’s not taking over your life to the point where it’s interfering with your normal life, it’s perfectly healthy and nothing to be ashamed about.

It’s really awful because unlike smoking or cocaine or anything else, you can’t just quit food. You need it to live, without it, you will die. Having too much of it permanently alters your hunger levels which makes you require more of it, it’s an endless feedback loop that scientists haven’t figured out yet.

It does seem like they might be making some progress on it with weight loss medicine, if it doesn’t outright cause cancer or other bad side effects. I guess we’ll see.

Okay, but we’re talking non-commercial and commercial websites alike both requiring photo ID.

That’s something new, that hasn’t happened before.

Why do you bother saying this? You really think 10, 15 years ago sites required you to upload photo ID? Did you even use the Internet back then?

Well I mean that’s kind of what Lemmy is like since it’s far more niche than something like reddit, but AI crawlers will find it anyway.

There’s other options like wine-staging and wine-devel for newer programs, and also there’s paid options like CrossOver which can even be simpler to use than Wine.

If you want the latest Microsoft and Adobe software, you’re likely going to be out of luck, but, if you want the latest Microsoft software you’d probably stay on Windows anyway.

My understanding of vibe coding is that it’s using AI to write code without reviewing the code, because the person doing the “vibe coding” isn’t actually a programmer and thus aren’t capable of actually reviewing code. That’s why a senior developer using an LLM wouldn’t be considered “vibe coding”, for example.

Welcome to the future, you will own nothing and be happy about it.

It is concerning, yeah. I usually license my own software with MIT, but, not all of it, and I think GPL is very important for Linux.

Sure, I should have clarified not surprised by the power or the price.

It makes sense that as more and more power becomes available, the price doesn’t necessarily have to increase.

Computers (especially CPUs/GPUs/SOCs etc) are becoming more and more powerful all the time, and more and more efficient all the time. It doesn’t mean that the price of them has to rise.

The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful doesn’t mean it should be more expensive than the most expensive version of the Steam Deck. The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful should be entirely expected, given the fact that it’s newer with a larger form factor (meaning that it may not be as limited in terms of heat etc)

Hopefully this is a detailed enough comment to clearly explain my thoughts on this.

It’s newer hardware in a bigger form factor.

It should be 6x as powerful, that shouldn’t be a surprise.

True, but it’s also nowhere near $1000.

Sure yeah, my comment originally mentioned designers and developers, but I was too tired to remember that in my follow-up comment.

It’s hard to be extremely detailed and also remember every single detail of what I was mentioning as well.

Oh, sorry, I wasn’t referencing the FOSS world with my comment. I was responding to the tech company’s part.

My comment was specifically about designers working for companies, with management forcing them to design things in a way that they would rather not.

It’s kind of less about designers having to justify their existence (although, yes, there are far more often entire re-designs that seem like nothing else about this) and more about them being forced to create designs that management want, rather than what end-users want.

That’s what my comment was about.

While this is true, designers are constatnly beholden to management (much like programmers are), so while designers would love to create a nice looking usable application, they end up having to go with the mockups that management requested which are of course a worse experience for the end-user.

It’s really sad.

According to statcounter, Linux desktop was over 4% marketshare in April 2025, damn that’s impressive.

We really are getting there.

Well clearly you’re lying or you haven’t been looking, because this is NOT the most popular initiative on ECI.

Regardless, you can support more than one issue. It’s not a zero-sum game, you can fight for multiple things. It’s really not that hard to figure out.