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After I read the title, I fully expected this to be about writing games using AI. But no, actually there is no mention of AI to be found in the text, not even i
by rob74 8mo ago
After I read the title, I fully expected this to be about writing games using AI. But no, actually there is no mention of AI to be found in the text, not even in the "Miscellaneous Thoughts" section, which seems to be mostly answers to "why don't you use X?" questions. Refreshing...
- oneeyedpigeon 8mo agoThe author is Noel Berry, creator of Celeste. They don't shout about it, but with that pedigree, I'm confident they'll be staying well away from AI.
- arlcode 8mo agoOr they'll take a look at what, if anything at all,they can use in their workflow as a useful tool not a magic solution. No need to brag about that.
- dwroberts 8mo ago> can use in their workflow as a useful tool not a magic solution. Like what? If you can already program your game and create art for it, what is it going to be doing? People are so obsessed with using AI stuff for the sake of it, it’s nuts
- segh 8mo agoI can do long division manually but I still reach for a calculator.
- dwroberts 8mo agoDo you also spend a lot of time maximising calculator utilisation in other places? Maybe trying to write letters with it or composing music with it?
- hjkl0 8mo agoWon’t you get much better results trying to maximize utilization of some sort of LLM? For many people, you’d get faster and better results trying to optimize for LLMs than for any standard word processor or music composition tool.
- _zagj 8mo ago> but I still reach for a calculator Does the calculator give you a slightly different answer each time, even with the same inputs?
- rhdunn 8mo agoI don't use AI for the sake of it, I use it where and when it is useful. For example: 1. advanced autocomplete -- if you have or paste the structure of a JSON or other format, or a class fields, it is good at autocompleting things like serialization, case statements, or other repetitive/boilerplate code; 2. questions -- it can often be difficult to find an answer on Google/etc. (esp. if you don't know exactly what you are looking for, or if Google decides to ignore a key term such as the programming language), but can be better via an AI. Like all tools, you need to read, check, and verify its output.
- bandrami 8mo agoGenuine question re #1: does your text editor not already do that?
- socalgal2 8mo agoWithout ai my text editor auto completes letters into existing identifiers or adds a closing brace With ai it add several lines of code at once as soon as it thinks it recognizes a common pattern. It’s not perfect and it can get in the way but it’s amazing when it guesses right and spits out the next 3-4 lines I would have typed
- bandrami 8mo agoI'm trying to think of a text editor that doesn't support customizable snippets and templates, and failing
- Cthulhu_ 8mo agoSpeaking for myself (who can program and all that), AI solves some of the tedium in my day job (building UI components). Most of that work nowadays is boilerplate. But at the moment it's also helping me solve more complex issues with building applications - it's JS, so you can imagine how complex it can be. I yearn for a simpler workflow to be honest, I don't want to rely on SO or LLMs to solve build issues. I want to work in Go but there's only a handful of companies using it in my country, plus my CV basically says I mainly did front-end in the past ~15 years.
- truetraveller 8mo ago"People are so obsessed with using AI stuff for the sake of it, it’s nuts". This is a GREAT observation. Thank you!
- tumdum_ 8mo agoThey don’t seem to enthusiastic: https://bsky.app/profile/noelfb.bsky.social/post/3maa3m5x4vs2u https://bsky.app/profile/noelfb.bsky.social/post/3maa3m5x4vs...
- MasterScrat 8mo agoWhy would a game development pedigree correlate with rejecting AI? As Carmack said: > AI tools will allow the best to reach even greater heights, while enabling smaller teams to accomplish more, and bring in some completely new creator demographics.
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- Cthulhu_ 8mo agoSlop is a garbage in, garbage out deal - in the hands of a competent developer who can review the changes, AI generated code is fine.
- MasterScrat 8mo agoAre you saying Carmack isn't a "talented and successful developer"?
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- coldpie 8mo agoI hate to say it but honestly, kinda, yeah... I do think that. Has he done anything significant since the early 1990s? All I've known him for since then is wasting a bunch of years spinning wheels at a virtual reality toy company and posting on Elon Musk's child pornography platform. I would not look to Carmack for tech inspiration in 2026, personally.
- yarn_ 7mo agoWith respect to Carmack I completely agree. There is too much appeal to authority with respect to him solely based on him making an impressive game (with the help of some other genius level programmers eg abrash) nearly 40 years ago.
- mock-possum 8mo agoBecause Celeste is left-aligned, and deriding AI as planet-destroying slop stolen from poor artist is a left position to take.
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