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Actually, the moat is regulatory. Expect these companies to behave themselves in progressively more grotesque and sycophantic ways to get the federal government to make open/foreign models (and their output) illegal. After all, their very survival depends on it.

Here is the comment I deleted:

“Same to you. You’re all over this thread with smug comments and cheap snipes. Why are you even here? Are you gaining anything at all from this discussion?

There are loads and loads of people on this site with decades of experience building products and businesses. Don’t talk down to them.”

I deleted it because, in my haste, I did not have time to fully vet the first paragraph. Other than that, I stand by my words on basic netiquette 100%. If this comes off as “very angry and hateful,” you may be a bit sheltered.

As for the grandparent comment, my personal feeling is that this type of rhetoric stems from insecurity and/or contagion from the deluge of AI corp propaganda we’re all drowning in. No previous technological advance elicited this sort of persistent cheerleading — not smartphones, nor the internet, nor personal computing itself. (There was no need for it: you just used the new thing and if it worked, then it worked, QED.)

Everyone has a plan until they get sued into oblivion.

“the thing you haven't come to terms with…”

Why the fuck do so many people write like this nowadays? Quit acting like you have access to some sort of universal knowledge or unique insight into other people’s state of mind; it’s extremely obnoxious. You’re presumably trying to communicate with adult professionals, not children.

So… similar levels of garbage code, but with no eyes looking at it.

Speaking for myself, I would not touch any professional practice sporting a slopcoded website with a ten-foot pole.

Unless this is the endpoint of software engineering (React for the next thousand years?) someone’s gonna have to do the work of understanding and pushing things forward. It won’t be an agent.

Recently Silksong, Celeste, Rhythm Doctor, Star of Providence, Spelunky 2, then classics like Fez, Cave Story, La Mulana, and many more...

It's a huge mistake to think that indie teams would make better games if only they could balloon their projects to AAA-size.

Some of the most meaningful and engrossing gaming experiences of my life have come from 1-3 person teams, especially over the past few years. Meanwhile, the vast majority of AAA titles just feel like time-filling entertainment chow to me: fun-shaped but ultimately pointless. I would strongly argue that artistry and auterism is nearly impossible to preserve beyond a certain game size; the experience can't be focused by definition.

In any case, many of the most talented indie game devs are rejecting this technology outright.

It's pretty clear to me that the primary value-add of AI is as an enshittification accelerator. (At least in the commercial sector.)

Using “woke psychosis” seriously in a sentence is its own kind of psychosis.

That’s a whole lot of words that, when strung together, mean absolutely nothing. Good job.

How convenient.

Incidentally, this suggests that once an LLM is capable of accessing and distilling a competitor's LLM without human intervention, then any legal argument about TOS violation is moot. But somehow I doubt that will fly in court.

And what if the LLM ingested and “understood” it as part of its training?

When I was 13, these games were delightfully naughty and super exciting. But with age comes empathy, and it just doesn’t feel good anymore to rob and kill randos in a virtual world. I see enough of that shit on the news.

Same reason I probably can’t rewatch Clockwork Orange despite loving it as a teen. Crime, murder, and rape aren’t just abstract concepts anymore.

(Thankfully, there are plenty of games that don’t wallow in darkness. And don’t take 1000 hours to beat!)

AI is not an abstraction, which should be obvious to anyone who's progressed past programming 101.

AI is not an abstraction.

A worrying number of “engineers” here seem to think that programming is a purely mechanical process with little actual thought involved.

Ironically, this is the most Reddit-brained kind of comment imaginable.

Things are great until they’re suddenly not. Money will only do so much when half the world is livid at you.

I'm not on Twitter at all because it doesn't feel good to use a social media platform owned by an ardent white supremacist directly responsible for the deaths of thousands in the third world. Blood money, blood attention.

1/3? Try 2/3 or more. And the technical articles I used to enjoy reading are outright gone.

This is an entirely different site from what it was just a few years ago, even if the orange tint remains the same.

Well, at some point, he gets an arrest warrant from the ICC.

AI chud bait.

It’s truly a waste of time to post this sort of content here anymore. The community is too far gone and the hackers and enthusiasts have long left for greener pastures.

The torch of software engineering will be carried by people like the author going forward.

Ah yes, just want I want, slopcoded dev tools by people who don’t understand what the fuck they’re doing and who will drop support the moment their agents hit some minor issue.

No, it’s really not. Fuck that shit completely. Call it out until this vapid, inhuman mimicry of communication vanishes from this earth.

Slop.

Proselytizing actions like this is step one of collectivization.

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