Almost wondering if I should do a follow up to my previous video essay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRNvINwRjkY
I had to scrap my entire next video so far and re-do it *bare metal* because 86Box now accepts AI slop commits. Which has delayed me immensely
(just *fixing* my bare metal machines could probably be a video in of itself)
But I wonder if it's worth converting all my criticisms and concerns to some kind of video essay.
All I hear about from tech circles is how "good" it is for "productivity" but very little about using it for *art* or *history* or any of those other things that it has ruined
@CursedSilicon PCEm has a no AI policy at least but it's very behind in features and amount of contributions for the last few years
Even software for retro computers is slopped now, I hate that you have to inspect the project for forensic signs when they try to hide it
@grapeshot PCem is basically dead AIUI (86box being the more active fork)
@CursedSilicon it is at least merging bug fixes again after 4 years.
I assume that's a response to 86box accepting 100,000 line AI commits to add graphics cards and a plethora of new hardware. Which will have some consequences when the tokens run out and no one understands the code well enough to debug anymore
@grapeshot Oh Christ. Did they? I just saw AI commits recently to "fix bugs"
@CursedSilicon Rage 128 is entirely Clauded and so are a lot of the recent patches to the recompiler if you look through the history. (In this project you can often tell what's been touched by LLMs by existence of more comments in the code.)
@grapeshot Uuuuuuughhhhhhhh