GamesRadar reports that agg23, the developer who ported the SNES FPGA core to the Analogue Pocket, publicly rejected an unrequested contributor patch that added an experimental MSU-1 streaming feature, saying it was a roughly 50,000-line diff that was completely built by an LLM and contained large amounts of unrelated code he would have had to review by hand. The core is one of the open-source openFPGA emulators the handheld supports, and the maintainer said the behavior was not acceptable, that pushing machine-generated work nobody asked for infringes on other people’s time and brainpower, and that AI-generated code has no place in his project. The article ties the incident to a broader fight across retro-emulation and open-source projects over low-effort, vibe-coded contributions, noting that the RPCS3 team made a similar plea to stop submitting AI slop code earlier in the year.
Analogue Pocket SNES core developer says AI-generated hack is loaded with slop code and wastes time and brainpower
GamesRadar reports that agg23, the developer who ported the SNES FPGA core to the Analogue Pocket, publicly rejected an unrequested contributor patch that added an experimental MSU-1 streaming feature, saying it was a roughly 50,000-line diff that was completely built by an LLM and contained large amounts of unrelated code he would have had to review by hand. The core is one of the open-source openFPGA emulators the handheld supports, and the maintainer said the behavior was not acceptable, that pushing machine-generated work nobody asked for infringes on other people's time and brainpower, and that AI-generated code has no place in his project. The article ties the incident to a broader fight across retro-emulation and open-source projects over low-effort, vibe-coded contributions, noting that the RPCS3 team made a similar plea to stop submitting AI slop code earlier in the year.
Source: Gamesradar