[LLMCodeAuditor]

“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 take a stoopid human 48 hours just to receive the shipment.”

[I would think Claude would recommend using SDL instead of running some janky homespun thing]

[reactordev]

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

[jhasse]

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.

[thunderfork]

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