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Well that’s a rule that makes no sense.

These awards are behind the times and risk irrelevance.

What software in 2025 is written without AI help?

Every game released recently would have AI help.

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> Every game released recently would have AI help.

For indie games in particular, that is very much not true. In fact, Steam has a 'made with AI' label, so it's not even true on that platform.

You think many are built without any assistance for coding? My impression was that people were mostly concerned about game assets like graphics and music

I think many are built without the use of gen ai to create assets. Obviously, the term "AI" is flexible enough that you could clarify every piece of software as involving AI if you wanted to, but I don't think that's productive.

I would assume that if a tool is there and the alternative too costly that they would use the tool instead of buring their project. Just today I stumbled over this for example, where they use GenAI as well: https://reddit.com/comments/1prqfsu

Do you have proof that many are using AI for coding?

Not for coding, but today I stumbled upon these two building their passion project using GenAI, which would otherwise perhaps not be possible: https://reddit.com/comments/1prqfsu

If you join a contest with a rule that doesn't make sense, lie about following the rule when you did not, and the contest disqualifies you, it's not the rule that's the problem, it's the lying about complying with the rule when you did not. Are you really so confused by this whole thign that you don't get that or are you just another Big Tech AI fanbro?

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