[cisophrene]

FYI, besides the obvious shilling, you’re being downvoted because Fabien Sanglard has been writing this kind of deep software RE analysis for the last 15 years, is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on classic game-engine internals, and certainly did not involve AI in doing any of this.

[ndiddy]

From the article:

> I spent the past two weeks reverse engineering the FMV format in my spare time. That was a departure from how I normally work since I did not write a single line of code. I will likely write something about my A.I framework (and opensource it) next month. But I can already tell this is an overall pleasant way to work.

[RodgerTheGreat]

It's tremendously disappointing to see Fabien stoop to using slop for his research; completely antithetical to the love for software craftsmanship I had inferred from his previous work.

[fabiensanglard]

I am curious to understand why you are disappointed.

I used A.I to write code on a personal project. It allowed me to go much faster than if I had tried by hand. Given my time constraints, it is likely I would have never found the time to complete this project.

The article was entirely written by me without A.I.

Please, help me to understand.

[RodgerTheGreat]

The articles you publish are, in principle, a celebration of the cleverness in programming and hardware design behind video games; a vehicle for appreciating human craftsmanship and artistry.

LLMs are the product of taking the creative output of countless millions of people and turning it into a statistical model which completely erases the attribution for all that material. They can regurgitate interpolated, plagiarized copies of someone else's code, divorced from its original context, but they are structurally incapable of showing where that code came from, who wrote it, or why.

Using these tools, and using your public profile to contribute to the normalization of these tools, is profoundly disrespectful to the programmers, artists, and writers whose work was strip-mined by megacorporations to build those LLMs. You are prioritizing your personal convenience while enriching bad actors who are bent on obliterating the open web, open-source culture, and the craft of programming. It's dissonant.

[grg0]

I don't disagree with your views, but attacking Fabien and saying he's being disrespectful seems like a stretch to me.

I think a better way to put it is that Fabien's blog is an inspiration to anyone looking to understand computers and programming in detail while taking a history tour of old games and systems. He personally has the skill to do so and then present the interesting bits of the system in a very compelling narrative. It gives people someone/thing to look up to. To find out that part of the analysis/output was produced by an LLM crunching through the code base is a major disappointment since it removes or diminishes the human element of the work.

[jjk7]

If you read the article, he admits he used AI for this.

[possibilistic]

This IS AI.

What's with the comment flagging?