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For me, it definitely is. Hell, my idea generation outpaces my ability to delegate it to agents. I can't do all the things I want to do because I don't have enough time in the day to vocalise them all, let alone hand code.
But in my case, I choose to handcode sometimes because I value the certainty of the results more than the speed of development.
It's the choice between a well-engineered application that does a handful of things reliably through a well-tested UI, or a rough-around-the-edges app that does 50 different things passably well, most of the time, with an inconsistent UI and lots of small bugs
People here might question the "lots of small bugs" but I have developed some apps solely with LLMs and despite using test-suites and spec-driven development I still face constant regression and UI bugs creeping in with every revision.
A good example - in React Native, in Android, Claude cannot keep the controls above where the onscreen nav appears, no matter how many times I ask it to. It'll solve it until three iterations later when the issue will return on another screen.
And then you look up one day and you don't recognise the codebase
LLMs produce games that look right but feel all wrong, because they're generalising and imitating. This is also why AI video tools can make an astonishingly authentic looking "GTA 5-but in Roman Times" or whatever, but they couldn't conjure up anything original. Only imitations of what people have already thought up.
By their very nature, they predict from a large set of data what the most likely thing is, and as humans, we crave the less likely thing.
My submarine game is generic tripe. Sure, it checks the boxes of what I asked for. You explore an undersea world in a tiny sub. Hooray. LLMs can build this kind of thing that nobody wants to play in minutes. But if you asked LLMs to make a thousand different undersea games you'd never get Dave The Diver, or Barotrauma, or Subnautica, or Sunless Sea, or Aquanox. You'd just get something that looks like it was released for Kinect but never charted.
Here's a one-shotted submarine game I made with Fable a few weeks back - https://roryok.com/games/deepdive3d.html. One prompt, and I think it's deeper than this (if you'll pardon the pun)
https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...
The cheapest walkman model is $399.99
Ok so I guess it is literally just openings of famous literary works, and not great first lines
Uhm... how did I get to the bottom if I scrolled 0%?
This is fast becoming a feature people want.
You think people don't complain when the train is late in other countries? That's hardly a uniquely German thing
This confuses me as I have never been to Germany and do not speak German.
But rules are rules.
from the article.
I don't think the evidence supports this. It's not mislabelling things, it's fabricating things the user said. That's not part of reasoning.