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Yeah, AI is not going to replace programmers any time soon!

I'm impressed by this. You know in the beginning I was like hey why doesn't this look like counterstrike ? yeah I had the exepectation this things can one shot an industry leading computer game. Of course that's not yet possible. But still, this is pretty damn impressive for me.

In a way, they really condensed perfectly a lot of what's silly currently around AI.

> Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike

Even though the prompt mentions Counter Strike, it actually asks to build the basics of a generic FPS, and with a few iterations ends up with some sort of minecraft-looking generic FPS with code that would never make it to prod anywhere sane.

It's technically impressive. But functionally very dubious (and not at all anything remotely close to Counter-Strike besides "being an FPS").

Fitting.

It's not even technically impressive to anybody who has worked on first person shooters. It's literally trash.

look at the actual code output lol

For the benefit of those of us who don’t work in browser-based frontends, how bad could it be?

i mean it's the most bare-bones implementation without any engineering considerations

it's not something that would ever work industrially

people with code-generators they've made could do this just as fast as the AI except their generators could have engineering considerations built-in to them as well so it'd be even better

> people with code-generators they've made could do this just as fast as the AI except their generators could have engineering considerations built-in to them as well so it'd be even better

Code generators? Can you be more specific?

I think they're referring to the project scaffolding features that's built-in to framework tooling thesedays (e.g. `ng generate ng <schema>` or `dotnet scaffold`).

There's also the practice of using good ol' fashioned code-generation tools like T4 or Moustache/Liquid templates to generate program entity classes and data-access methods from a DB schema, for example. Furthermore, now there's pretty nifty compile-time code-generation in C# - while languages like F# support built-time type-generation.

...and these are all good tools IMO; but really aren't comparable to an LLM, imo.

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