NitrousTracker developers decide not to use generative AI to write code
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The three developers of NitrousTracker have unanimously decided that this Nintendo DS music tracker project will not use generative AI to write code. The decision also covers the three sub-repositories libdsmi, libntxm, and tobkit. This disclosure comes from a review of the project's dependency tree, examining the various sub-repositories the project depends on.
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The maintainer of NitrousTracker, a homebrew music tracker for the Nintendo DS, documents the AI involvement across its full dependency tree, noting that the project's own code and its libdsmi, libntxm and tobkit libraries do not use generative AI, while dependencies such as TinyUSB, Mbed TLS, binutils, GCC and picolibc include AI-assisted contributions. TinyUSB is frozen at an October 30, 2024 version to preserve AI-free status, and one vibe-coded pull request adding HobbyChop mDS adapter support was rejected. The author declines to label the project "no-AI," arguing that intent matters and that an AI-free declaration would minimize the work of those who try harder.
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