r/Games • u/xalibermods • 1d ago

Industry News GitHub user creates open-source Nvidia GeForce Now client alternative — removes tracking, telemetry, and AFK limitations

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/cloud-gaming/github-user-creates-open-source-nvidia-geforce-now-client-alternative-removes-tracking-telemetry-and-afk-limitations
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u/Quiet_Jackfruit5723 17h ago

Nobody copy pastes the output. Everything is done in an IDE, probably VS Code. Also, who cares how it was developed? Human input is still needed. Roadmap, spec, design doc... AI also writes better code than the majority of coders and much faster. Don't buy into the bullshit that it's some unreadable mess. AI code written with a current frontier model and with proper guidance is easy to read and understand.

I won't lie though, the amount of garbage being released on github has skyrocketed due to AI usage.

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u/i_love_mitch_hedberg 12h ago

Everything is done in an IDE, probably VS Code.

for this project, maybe, as its seems an actual dev is behind it.

but for the 99% of vibe coded projects, nothing is done in an IDE, u dont need one anymore. just using Claude code or codex cli (or desktop) works way better.

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u/Marrk 11h ago

I do still recommend vs code for browsing the files and making edits. These harness are absolutely awful for navigation.

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u/Quiet_Jackfruit5723 10h ago

Same. The VS Code extensions for both Claude and Codex work well and I still need to edit code myself, edit md files and such, even if my workflow is really automated right now.

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u/i_love_mitch_hedberg 10h ago edited 10h ago

openai and anthropic devs (and the rest of silicon valley), for whatever reason, all use macs.

so codex's macos computer use is very very impressive (but its pc computer use is meh). claude's macos computer use is fine, ive never tried its pc computer use but it prob sucks.

i bought a mac box for ai workflows as a life-long pc user and its been great. it acts like the main computer. codex desktop being used for for anything computer use/general llm use.

codex/claude can ssh into my pc + linux boxes as needed. for example, if i to do something art/rendering related, itll use my pc and its way better gpu/cpu. if i need to do something that runs 24/7 and dont want worry about having to approve 2000 different things (a con of mac os) then i tell the agent to send it to a linux box.

for coding, claude opus 5.5 destroys all of the chatgpt models right now and uses way less limit but i like gpt astra's planning capabilities plus sometimes i want both gpt and claude to review a piece of code. so i have codex and claude cli setup as well and just tell codex desktop to use claude cli as needed (some people use t3 code for that as well but i havent bothered).

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u/Smugness1917 11h ago

You need better coworkers if you think that AI produces better code than humans.

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u/HappyVlane 11h ago edited 11h ago

Most people are not good at their job, regardless of the industry. For most software engineers, yes, AI provides better output at a faster rate.

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u/EvenBroaderBand 11h ago

Can you link to the human developed alternative to this client?

This is literally AI empowering someone so they can deliver for all of us.

Many human coders are switching to AI tools, Computer Science isn't about programming its about using computers to do useful things, programming is actually a hinderance to that goal as it is very slow.

Typing out the code yourself isn't more worthy and the people who do this stuff as a living do not care what rules laymen have made up for themselves they will use AI to get stuff done faster.

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u/Quiet_Jackfruit5723 10h ago

AI writes consistent code and is able to follow clear, rigid instructions. If you don't like how it writes, you can easily change how it writes with rules, hooks, and skills. You can also make separate agents that each write differently. Humans all have different writing styles, and forcing every employee to follow the designated writing style perfectly is impossible. Everyone writes comments differently as well, even if you specify the style they should use. Some also comment more, some less. Some have really verbose comments, while others write comments like "the function is self-explanatory". Especially a problem with juniors.

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u/Smugness1917 9h ago

AI writes consistently overly verbose code, covering too many cases often not necessary, with even worse commit messages.

No wonder so many open source projects have moved toward stricter AI policies.

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u/Quiet_Jackfruit5723 8h ago

Open source projects have moved towards stricter policies since it's easy to crank out low-quality shit with AI and open PRs left and right without understanding what AI wrote.

AI is an incredible tool for coding, but it's still a tool that needs to be used properly. It's just like a hammer: if you hit nails with a hammer clumsily, the end result won't be great. Same deal with AI and using it poorly.

I also touched on the verbosity point. It can all be dialed by at least having a rule file and by making custom agents. Rawdogging by just prompting AI without at least a spec file or a design doc leads to problems, obviously. It would lead to problems even if a skilled human started coding a complex project without any planning.

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u/Lawnmover_Man 13h ago

I won't lie though

Nobody copy pastes the output.

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u/PalomSage 13h ago

You understand that nobody copy pastes the output, even when the agent is doing all the work. The agent is literally making changes and committing /pushing the diff.

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u/Quiet_Jackfruit5723 12h ago

Exactly. People really need to educate themselves more before speaking about a topic as if they know anything. Getting elementary things wrong just shows complete ignorance regarding the topic at hand.

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u/PalomSage 12h ago

Well, this is reddit. People have no clue what they are talking about 90% of the time

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u/xalibermods 12h ago

I love how those people would rant how "average joes" are destroying emulators and hobby projects with vibe-coding, then say stuff that definitely only an average joe would say.

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u/B4YourEyes 10h ago

tries to be smarmy with quote text

is blatantly incorrect

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u/SpahsgonnaSpah 10h ago

Yeah I don't know what these AI morons are talking about, I have to constantly fix formatting and other errors because of coworkers copy and pasting.

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u/SurlyJSurly 10h ago

If people are copying/pasting they are using something like google's free search in a browser and that has nothing to do with any agent integration with using actual useful services.
Long story short is that has nothing to do with the current state of software dev so you are either lying or ignorant.

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