I often wonder what would happen if Google just refused to pay, or just kept it stuck in legal purgatory as that would be cheaper than paying the fine.
This is the thing. I do use LLMs (mostly Anthropic).
It just does not generate good useable code. I have to review every single change to a higher degree than I would my own code because it likes to slip in hidden nasties. I have to rewrite at least 50% of what it generates.
That being said, I know devs who swear that they don’t even write code anymore. Like this rust port. I can’t even fathom blindly merging something his massive.
I use Bazzite for all my gaming (Returnal at the minute) and it works unbelievably well. I don’t tinker with any of the proton version. I just press play.
I recently completed Stellar Blade with zero issues.
I don’t even shutdown the machine, I just hit the power to sleep it. Instantly resumes where I left off.
This struck me as odd too. 7 months? It wouldn’t take that long to write it in a new language.
Another thing I don’t see mentioned is code quality.
Vibe-coded code bases are an excellent example of why LLMs aren’t very good at writing code. It will often correct its own mistakes only to make them again immediately after and Inconsistent pattern use.
Recently Claude has been making some “interesting” code style choices, not inline with the code base it’s currently supposed to be working on.