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"It has no place in my world": Analogue Pocket SNES emulator dev says AI-powered hack is loaded with slop code and wastes "time and brainpower"

“You sent me a nearly 50k line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and you somehow expect me to review it”

— GamesRadar+

What happened

A volunteer who maintains the Super Nintendo emulator for the Analogue Pocket handheld was sent an unrequested new feature made up of nearly 50,000 lines of AI-written code. He said it was cool if it worked, that he had never expected to see the feature built, and that he would not be reviewing it.

Read it at GamesRadar+ ↗