Why Emulator Devs Are Fighting Back Against AI Code Dumps
This highlights a growing tension in the retro dev community: while AI can be a tool, dumping unrequested, machine-generated code onto volunteer maintainers wastes their time and risks driving them aw…
This highlights a growing tension in the retro dev community: while AI can be a tool, dumping unrequested, machine-generated code onto volunteer maintainers wastes their time and risks driving them aw…
Key points - agg23, developer of the Analogue Pocket SNES core, rejected a 50,000-line AI-generated contribution. - The contribution was an experimental MSU-1 streaming feature, which agg23 called 'pretty cool' but unrequested. - agg23 said the code was 'completely LLM built' and contained 'SO MUCH unrelated garbage'. - RPCS3 devs previously asked contributors to stop submitting AI slop code earlier this year. - Zelda and Banjo PC port devs criticized a vibe-coded Banjo-Tooie recompilation as disrespectful.
Timeline - Earlier this year: RPCS3 developers begged contributors to stop submitting AI slop code. - Recently: Zelda and Banjo PC port devs slammed a vibe-coded Banjo-Tooie recompilation. - Yesterday: Contributor nasonliu submitted a 50k line AI-generated MSU-1 feature to the Analogue Pocket SNES core. - Yesterday: agg23 publicly rejected the contribution, saying AI slop has 'no place in my world'.
FAQ
Q: What is the Analogue Pocket SNES core? A: It's an openFPGA emulator core that lets you play Super Nintendo games on the Analogue Pocket handheld.
Q: Why did agg23 reject the AI-generated code? A: It was 50,000 lines of unrequested, machine-generated code that would take enormous time to review, and agg23 felt it disrespected maintainers' efforts.
Q: Are other emulator projects banning AI code? A: Not outright bans, but projects like RPCS3 demand that contributors fully understand any AI-assisted code they submit.
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