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Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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Make it to 2 or more years. That’s the amount of times that I’ve been seeing comments equating not using AI with hopelessly doomed project/career.

I am sure you noticed how fast the things started to change since the beginning of 2026 right? In terms of tooling, model, context, pricing, etc?

This is also something we've all been hearing for ages. "/MCP/agents/yadda yadda are totally like anything that's come before!"

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

#92

Stopping a flood with a tissue.

Don't understand the down vote. Policies like these are not truly enforceable. There are many many unscrupulous humans out there, that are more than willing to make any code they submit, look like a human wrote it, even though an LLM created it.

The purpose of rules is not limited to enforcement. This seems to be a common misconception in these threads.

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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“Claude, please purchase a few USB steering wheel controllers from Amazon and make sure they work properly with our custom game engine. Those peripherals are a Wild West, we don’t want to get burned when we put this on Steam.” >> ………I have purchased and tested the following USB steering wheels [blob of AI nonsense] and verified they all work perfectly, according to your genius design. “Wow, that was fast! It would ta…

HID and XInput, you don’t need SDL for Steering Wheels.

Xinput is a pretty constrained interface that plenty of novel controllers, including steering wheels, don't/can't adhere to. Good luck getting the PS5 controller's fancy rumble working over xinput, for example

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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Pretty sure Gabe's been partying it up in New Zeland ever since he got stuck there because of Covid

1) Gabe's a front man. He doesn't run Valve. 2) New Zealand is a favorite place for Western apparatchiks to build their bunkers. They don't move there out of a love for Kiwi culture and desire to integrate with the locals. Much like their interest in Wyoming/Montana also; they see a place they like, and they go take it over and drive out/murder whoever was there before.

Gabe may be a the front man, but he's still like the benevolent dictator for life of Valve. Kind of like how Linux Torvalds is the BDFL of Linux

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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Game development, and writing small tools in the game dev space. This week I've been working on an image editing app, mostly to play with dithering algorithms and palettes, using Odin and SDL. I mean, it's either that or I quit software development completely; it would be a shame to throw away two decades of experience in the field.

I'm interested in tools (or blog posts about this) for image editing apps. Would you mind sharing what you've build?

Nothing ready to ship just yet; I was thinking of building an image editing app that simply focuses on transformations — imagine Photoshop, without the editing part. Instead of having layers, you have a series of transformation you can tweak visually and then export to be reused and applied in batch later.

The itch I want to scratch is that I'm on Linux, and our native image editing apps are very clunky, or you have to spend a weekend every time reacquainting yourself with ImageMagick.

The other project in the back of my head is a font repository, manager and downloader for Linux. It's an unserved niche, and there is no popular central repository of fonts, despite a large majority of them are released with permissive licenses. I just want to be able to do `font-app install Inter Iosevka "IBM Plex"` and they appear under ~/.local/share/fonts

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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I am sure you noticed how fast the things started to change since the beginning of 2026 right? In terms of tooling, model, context, pricing, etc?

This is also something we've all been hearing for ages. " /MCP/agents/yadda yadda are totally like anything that's come before!"

> "/MCP/agents/yadda yadda are totally like anything that's come before!"

and they are right. We never saw that before. That's why we all fear it.

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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“Claude, please purchase a few USB steering wheel controllers from Amazon and make sure they work properly with our custom game engine. Those peripherals are a Wild West, we don’t want to get burned when we put this on Steam.” >> ………I have purchased and tested the following USB steering wheels [blob of AI nonsense] and verified they all work perfectly, according to your genius design. “Wow, that was fast! It would ta…

HID and XInput, you don’t need SDL for Steering Wheels.

You absolutely do need SDL, it's full of knowledge by humans from trial and error over years of using input devices in the real world.

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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I'm interested in tools (or blog posts about this) for image editing apps. Would you mind sharing what you've build?

Nothing ready to ship just yet; I was thinking of building an image editing app that simply focuses on transformations — imagine Photoshop, without the editing part. Instead of having layers, you have a series of transformation you can tweak visually and then export to be reused and applied in batch later. The itch I want to scratch is that I'm on Linux, and our native image editing apps are very clunky, or you have…

Alright, if you do build something I hope you share it here. I'm always looking forward to any image editing/processing apps or techniques.

Re: SDL bans AI-written commits

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I don’t use public repos very often but I had toyed with the idea of just creating a git user specifically for an agent to use for this purpose so it would not be my user account, is this not standard practice already? Kinda seems obvious to me, I mean so people can tell which parts of my public project were commits managed by an agent.
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