I really dislike the precedent this sets.

A silver lining if this maintainer ends up being in the right is that any proprietary software can easily be reverse engineered and stripped of it's licensing by any hobbyist with enough free time and claude tokens.

Personally, I'd welcome a post-copyright software era

I’ve used AI for some reverse engineering and I’ve noticed the same thing. It’s generally great at breaking obfuscation or understanding raw decompilation.

It’s terrible at confirming prior work, if I label something incorrectly it will use that as if it was gospel.

Having a very clean function with lots of comments and well named functions with a lot of detail that does something completely different will trip it up very easily.

The Stuntman series is a still painful example.

Blame the odd non-IEEE-754 floating point implementation changing physics enough that AI fails most of the missions which softblocks progress quite egregiously

And similar to olive oil. Once you taste the real deal, it's very easy to identify the fake/watered down stuff by taste alone.

In theory the chipset max is 2GB, but the physical motherboard does not have enough address lines traced to support more than 256MB. Adding more memory would require a PCB redesign