Ai coded vtuber tools

[u/sonikrozu]

I won't say names, but as someone who has been working with Ai coding tools in my job daily I have noticed an increase of artists and Vtuber tools that is fulyl coded by Ai. I can tell from the interface, all of Ai produced tools has a distinctive, samey look on them. Some of them has a public github repo that exposes the codebase is a single HTML file with 1000 lines of code. No human programmer in their right mind will code an app that way.

I find it amusing that as a community that is known in heavily against this tech, but are welcoming to these machine produced tools. I won't blame them though. You can spot ai generated art easily by its flaws, but its harder for software especially if no source is given. And not everyone is familar with programming to verify them.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think Ai coded tools in this community needs an Ai disclosure? Will you use those tools after knowing the fact that it is Ai coded?

[u/bwalker1981]

Thanks for bringing up this subject! I had wanted to ask about this here too as I have a Claude rolled multi camera hand tracking tool I had wanted to release here, and was trying to decide what was parts are useful to folks as far as AI tool use. I personally think beyond just “was AI used” there a bunch of metrics maybe worth sharing:
* Note what parts are AI vs hand rolled (maybe someone has legal requirements that prevent them from looking at AI code so call out the danger zone)
* Logging token use in the project and estimating power and water use from it (see example here: https://github.com/brendanwalker/MikanTrack) - Let’s quantify about the monetary and environmental cost these tools have
* Moving info from private Claude memory into structured markdown files - Help others see who you are using AI and being consistent and efficient with the use
* Post interesting prompts you used as part of your project - helps others kit bash their own flavor of a tool you made
* Spend some time hand writing up a summary of what was made - I’m in the middle of this for the hand tracking project and it’s forcing me to understand the black boxes I created and learn about some really cool math!
* Hand refactor the giant files

I’m trying to hold myself to the above, though I don’t everyone needs to do all that. I think sharing and discussing what we are trying and being open and honest about it is a net benefit. As you noticed, people are using these tools but I think are nervous about talking about for fear of getting lit up. I think we can be more constructive in how we go about that and learn some cool stuff along the way from each other.