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Gen AI will not doom us all directly, but it will cause foolish people to make bad decisions. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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I don't understand the whole "if AI went away, how would you get anything done?" argument. If you go back 4 years, we were doing things just fine without it.

My hot take is that indies should charge more for their games. Not like $70, but maybe $20. In a market currently being flooded with cheap AI slop, there's a customer value expectation that you can tap into by charging more for a hand-crafted game. Your game costs more because it's better!

People say "oh, but a lot of the ethical and quality problems with gen AI will be fixed over time." But those problems aren't fixed yet, there's no actual plan to fix them, and I'm not sure what incentive people even have to do it.

I'm thinking about how I recognize those distinctive gen AI cartoon drawings. Like, what are the visual hallmarks of the style that I'm using as identifiers? Flat lighting? Uniform line work? Inconsistent use of perspective? Something about the texturing? All of the above?

I've seen AI compared to microplastics: pervasive whether you like it or not. But that doesn't mean we should go around intentionally eating plastic.

One thing I'm super, super, SUPER salty about is the idea that AI usage has made tech interviewing even more broken than before. Which is to say, I would no longer feel prepared to go into a tech interview without a moderate amount of AI proficiency, and I resent this.

I suspect that a lot of my current annoyance with having gen AI shoved into everything is that it feels like injecting tech debt into things that were working (mostly) fine before. Yes, it allows people to build things faster, but it does not help us maintain those things.

I'm thinking about software development tools again. Specifically, I've been struggling a bit with trying to decide if LLM-based coding assistants can be considered a type of high-level programming language. But also, very importantly, I'm remembering that we aren't limited to just one methodology.

As more information about the Big Walk thing comes out, the weirder it gets. The devs used a chatbot to help debug a performance problem that even the Unity devs were unable to fix. But hypothetically, what if the Unity devs had use a chatbot and simply relayed that answer to the Big Walk team?

My opinion of Twitch isn't very high to begin with, but yeah, they're really trying to push me away with this "we're using your streams to train gen AI unless you opt out" shit.