Submitted 1 day ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
Source: gog.com/…/senior-software-engineer-c-gog-galaxy
We already knew that GOG were going to be looking more seriously at Linux, as covered here previously on GamingOnLinux. However, they’re going a step further as noted in their job listing on how “Linux is the next major frontier”.
They use generative AI for assets in their website and require potential devs to use AI in their workflow. Fuck em.
If you want to ditch every software company/vendor that uses LLM code tools, you may want to never touch software ever again.
Doomposting about AI inevitability is only beneficial to AI companies… If your claim is even true. And if it is, we should shame everybody else.
If your morals and ethics can be changed by inevitability then what’s that say about you?
Sounds like a regular software development job where instead of being a Luddite, people use the latest technology for the job.
Luddites didn’t fear technology, they feared for the commoditisation of manual labour and they were dead on right as pauperism followed.
What’s the opposite of a Luddite? Hey, if you enjoy bending over and letting techbros do with you what they will, don’t expect me to provide any lube. Now run along and ask ChatGPT how you should feel about this response.
The good thing is they don’t have DRM so boycott is extremely easy and at the same time very hard
require potential devs to use AI in their workflow
From where did you get that?
From the job posting.
“Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption”
I would love to. They deserve a little lovin’ for all the work they put in preserving games. 10/10, would buy games from them over Steam any and every day.
no fucking thanks.
i’d stay with the unofficial clients rather than touch this soon to be slopware.
ok that was always allowed
Yeah, but they gotta make sure everyone knows they have an opinion, lest you forget they exist 😂
I wish though they were a bit more friendly towards Proton/Wine. Knowing what games are compatible and to what degree before purchasing them would make me happier.
Old news.
Two days old. Before they were saying to “consider” implementing a linux version for their launcher, now they are hiring.
Corollary: All news are old news.
Good morning GOG!
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AI Mandatory, game preservation optional. Glad they got their priorities straight 😅
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Seems like they want to hire an AI salesman, not an engineer.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s kind of the new loyalty test you have to pass for companies nowadays to get a dev job.
“Oh yeah I love AI and want to be replaced by robots. Spank me harder daddy”.
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Honestly if part of their job is at all trying to get old shit to run on new operating systems AI is very useful for that task.
Part of my job is keeping a 30 year old c++ application compiling and building on newer versions of Linux. LLMs have made this a far easier experience.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I don’t want to say you’re totally wrong, but I am skeptical of the benefit. Sure, maybe it works now, which is cool, but is it making changes that are maintainable? The next time someone does this is it going to work? If we just constantly have LLMs update code, when does it start breaking, and when it does is it going to be in a state someone can fix?
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Here's the secret: talk a big game about being pro AI in the interview, then just don't use it on the job. What are they gonna do, grab your hands and put your mouse cursor on the Copilot button?
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Copilot business subscriptions have fairly granular usage tracking, so they’d probably just replace you right away with someone who isn’t quite so reserved. Looking at the comments here and in other places, there is certainly no shortage of such people.
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yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
50 shades of grAI