Someone just cloned my game with AI. No beef, from his profile it looks like he is just messing around and having fun with what the model can spit out and probably will not finish anything. I too sometimes use some form of ai to brainstorm and maybe test some idea before i put my time to it.
Started thinking though. Posting dev progress used to feel safer because nobody was realistically catching up in a couple of days. Now any decent idea gets cloned almost immediately and the feed is so stuffed with AI slop that original stuff has a harder time even showing up.
And yeah it kinda sucks. Used to feel like there was more art in making games. Even a tiny prototype gave you actual pride because you dragged it into existence yourself and you understood what you built. Now even when something small works that pride feels thinner. Views used to be bigger too a lot of the time because just having a thing like that exist was rarer.
Copying with AI still will not save you if you do not know what you are doing though. You see a spider game and want to remake it but you do not know procedural animation or IK so you keep asking the bot to fix the legs and it goes nowhere. Or you want that miniature tilt shift look and you keep poking model scale and camera distance instead of just putting blur and depth of field on it. Without the actual vocab you slam into a wall pretty fast.
So I will drop a few favorite pre AI tricks in the replies. Some math, graphics or another tricks that hyped me when i was younger.
I hope that i was able to put my feelings through words and i just want people to feel what I felt as a kid when i used to staying up late dreaming of making something, learning everything from scratch, and feeling the genuine magic of indie games before everything started feeling like something idk dead and artificial.
@AriDavidPaul@ccatalini "mentally model these as biological agents" - there is no need to mentally model them. they are already mathematically modeled and mentally modelling them as biological agents for the people who dont understand the mathematics behind is the exact thing they are doing anyways.
@AriDavidPaul@ccatalini thats clearly a false equivalence. We don't understand what a dog with rabies will do next so lets just equate it to llms because we dont know what they will do next either. And since the dog with rabies had motives and desires that we dont understand the llms must have it too.
Software engineers burning out thanks to using AI coding tools is becoming a major problem I don't see anyone talk about all that much. There's some "vampire effect" in these tools, and it drains a lot of devs.
This video by @stolinski is a very good and important one, to start:
@mcfarland72409@antoniosarosi now they will ask which model did you use? which harness did you use? was thinking medium or high? and if everything checks out your prompt must have been not good enough ๐คฃ๐ญ
@2wlearning got the same goals but I was trying to work on automated essay scoring and I just started reading Programming Massively Parallel Processors textbook ๐ญ