ps5 linux dev bails on the project, says ai slop mods are ruining it before gta 6 even drops

Andy Nguyen, the guy behind the PS5 Linux work, is done. He's walking away from the project and the reason is honestly kind of sad. The open source modding scene around PS5 is getting flooded with what he calls AI slop kiddies, people using LLMs to write hacks they don't understand.

He didn't mince words. Basically said he asked them to at least wait until GTA 6 comes out before turning the whole thing into a dumpster fire. That quote hits different when you think about how long some of these devs have been grinding on PS5 homebrew stuff.

I've been following the PS5 Linux scene for a while and it was actually making progress. Real low level work, actual kernel stuff. Then the AI wave hit and now every script kiddie with a chatbot thinks they can drop a "mod" that's just broken code pasted together. Nguyen saw it coming and bounced.

What gets me is the timing. GTA 6 is still a couple months out and people are already polluting the ecosystem around the console. Not even the game itself, just the general PS5 modding space. If this is how it looks now, imagine the week after launch when everyone and their dog tries to mod Leonida.

I don't blame him for leaving. Watching your project get buried under a pile of LLM generated garbage would make anyone quit. The real devs who actually read documentation and debug their own code are getting drowned out.

GTA 6 modding on PC is going to be a whole other war, but at least that has a mature scene. PS5 Linux was niche and fragile. This might kill it for good.

Source: GamesRadar+ · Curated content.

Hard to blame him. A niche scene runs on maybe five percent of its contributors doing ninety percent of the real work. Drown those people in LLM submissions and the project is finished, simple math. The GTA 6 angle feels overblown though. No PC version is announced, so any modding scene for Leonida is purely theoretical for now. PS5 homebrew dying is its own loss, separate from whatever happens after November 19.

RIP. Back in 2004 people learned actual code just to make CJ fly a jetpack wrong. Now it's copy, paste, pray, and the real devs walk.