I have nothing against engines; I just don’t enjoy using them.

The trouble with jams is that the LLM is, legally, where the code came from, and said code should either count as an external asset or boilerplate, or the LLM needs to be considered a team member.

Also, legally, the “vibe-coders” or “operators” aren’t the creators of any AI-generated content.

For me, it depends on what is defined as an engine.

If an engine is a suite of prepackaged tools and editors—e.g. Unreal, Unity, Godot, etc.—then I dislike game engines.

If an engine is more like a library, or a framework—e.g. Raylib, SDL, LÖVE, etc.—then I very much prefer working with an engine.

I suppose the difference is akin to operating systems: on one hand, we have full suites of software, such as the BSDs and Godot; on the other, we have lots of seperate software, like Linux distros and SDL (+ the code and asset editors of choice).

My exception to all of this is writing ROMs for console emulators, and fantasy consoles like PICO-8.

How did it playtest it? The answer is: it didn’t!

It is incapable of experiencing emotion, and is therefore incapable of what we call play.

Thanks for sharing that! It’s super nifty ^^

oh hey that sounds cool—WAIT I KNOW THIS GUY

Public service announcement: there is a massive puddle of word soup on aisle 72—I repeat: there is a massive puddle of word soup on aisle 72.

I agree with your last quote there, and that’s why I don’t use AI to create games for me ^^

It would be for the express purpose of capital, not helping the community.

Correct. That is the joke. In the comic.

I’m saying that whomever modified this comic (which is about overestimating normies) overestimated the normies during the editing proccess, by skipping over Android and iOS (which implies that the editor assumed normies would know them).

It’s sort of a meta-joke.

Actually, the joke was that experts assume normies would know BSDs and Linux. The fact of it is, most normies don’t know any OS.

My point was that whomever edited the comic was actually overestimating the average person’s knowledge. They assumed normies know any OS, even the ones most folks use daily (Android or iOS).

They simply don’t know what an OS is. To them, the UI is simply part of the phone; it’s a package deal.

Most people actually probably don’t know what an operating system is.

Just as accurately, the meme could be:

“[…] the average person probably only knows Android, iOS, Windows, and MacOS.”
“And Linux, of course.”
“Of course.”

The thing is, all of these old and respected projects existed before LLMs. It’s pretty easy to just… ban LLM usage on a project.

Yes; I was absolutely crestfallen when I caught wind of it being tAInted.

I’m currently investigating alternatives. Redox is anti-AI, but written in Rust. Haiku isn’t really suitable for most folks as a daily driver. ReactOS is basically a toy, and is tAInted anyways.

Of the BSDs, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are both tAInted; Hyperbola is still using Linux-Libre; NetBSD itself is untAInted, but uses GCC (if I recall correctly), and one of its forks, MirBSD, is in the same boat.

If I can build NetBSD using an alternative compiler toolchain, then that would be an excellent starting point for a new OS.

I say “yes”, with one exception: if they remove the offending code, the project (as a whole) is no longer tAInted.

And yeah; there are pure projects. NetBSD’s kernel is currently untAInted, but some things in the project (like GCC) are.

You misunderstand me. Rust is tAInted. “AI” is used in its development.

very true for cs in general :3

i wish Rust wasn’t tainted by ai :/

The Linux kernel is tAInted, so it would need to be forked. My current top choice is the NetBSD: it isn’t going anywhere, and it’s untainted.

I also looked at Redox (sadly Rust is tAInted, so it’s a no-go), and Haiku (which is just… a little too obscure). GNU Hurd is tAInted too, and isn’t as good of a kernel, so if I’m gonna clean up a kernel, it’ll be Linux. Otherwise, it’s gonna likely gonna be NetBSD.

So… not really a Linux distro, I’d say, but definitely a Unix-like OS.

As for software from other operating systems, it depends on the kernel I choose. If it’s a Linux fork, I’ll be super careful to keep it compatible with the Linux ABI. If it’s NetBSD, there’s compat_linux for Linux binaries. I believe Wine has taken an anti-“AI” stance, so Windows should be alright—if not: old versions exist.

As for your last question: I’m a transfemme (our main difference), (anarcho, probably)-communist, bi/pan, polyamorous, anti-“AI” programmer (who is very open to DMs (I’m lonely af)) :3

I really need to work on my 100% slop-free OS. The bulk of the work is getting a clean kernel setup, the compiler and libc working, and that’s about it; the rest is easy.

P.S. wow you’re me but a cis dude

I really need to do better about reading through configs on my favourite software. Thanks!