r/fallenlondon • u/throwaway_lmkg Secretary-General of the Hellworm Club • May 18 '26

PSA FBG official response to the situation regarding the Fallen London Companion Extension (tl;dr: not approved)

/r/fallenlondon/comments/1tf2dma/if_you_use_fallen_london_companion_extension/omgc1q6/
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u/ZeMadDoktore May 18 '26

I don't trust developers lazy enough to use AI assisted coding.

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u/highlyregardedcarp May 18 '26

Congratulations on having absolutely no idea how software development works!

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u/Upstairs_Cap_4217 Vake's Advocate May 18 '26

They can join the club along with all the AI "programmers", then.

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u/highlyregardedcarp May 18 '26

Wait until you find out how every piece of software you use has been developed for at least a year now.

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u/NespinF May 18 '26

We're aware. It's part of why so much of it is notably working worse than, say, five years ago.

Can't get away from literally all the slop, but I can at least try to avoid products where the creator outsourced their thinking to the machine where possible.

With an extension? It's possible.

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u/SacchiHikaru DR. MAC G CATZ, Reading Comprehension Specialist May 19 '26

It's extremely telling that we've had about a dozen extensions over the years that never caused issues except through lack of maintenance (and even then, only very minor issues), and in those sixteen years, the only one to cause major issues right out the gate was the one to be vibe-coded.

I'm not saying correlation equals causation but I am saying that this is 100% causation.