Post #2702963

2026-04-03 00:28 UTC

And as an aside: who cares if the plagiarism machines are getting better? I should hope a plagiarist can produce a final product. It's not a grand observation that theft and plagiarism will help you accomplish a task faster. it's not new information that stealing things is cheaper than making them. I do not care if Claude produces perfect code. It doesn't, and it won't, but even if it did I would not use it. Because I'm not a fucking plagiarist. And you shouldn't be either.

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@protowlf@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-03 00:36

The action item you can take away from this rant: call things like Claude or the like what they are: plagiarism machines. That's not a dig -- that's a more accurate description than "artificial intelligence". When your coworker argues that it's merely automation, be the nerd who corrects them with "automated plagiarism". Normalize describing gen AI accurately. I strongly believe if more people understood how it works they would not use it.

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