Janelle

swe and games | data @do_bigr

[Janelle @_jyulo]

I truly wonder what this means for hobbyists, or people bootstrapping a project for the first time.

You can burn a couple hundred $$$ in tokens for one project, but repeat a dozen times and it eventually becomes thousands of dollars.

Pre-AI, failed games still bought you skills and the judgment to discern quality work for hiring others. Now the same money can leave a beginner little to show for it, especially if they cannot defend the design decisions behind their codebase.

[Cody @beascripts]

Something I've noticed recently is that a lot of developers who rely on AI to make their games are now realizing they can't actually afford to keep developing them.

This was always one of my biggest concerns with AI. Not that it would replace developers, but that developers would become so dependent on it that they'd gradually substitute their own technical skills with a service they don't control.

I think a lot of people are now realizing that they're no longer just investing time into making a game. They're burning tokens, paying subscriptions, and funneling money into massive tech companies just to sustain a workflow they've become dependent on.

What was sold to people as a way to make game development more accessible has effectively introduced an entirely new financial barrier to entry.

The producer becomes the product.

You've outsourced so much of your workload to a subscription service that your ability to create is now tied to someone else's pricing model. The more dependent you become, the more expensive it becomes to operate independently.

I genuinely believe the developers who will succeed on Roblox in the long term are those who remain the architects of their own projects. People who understand their codebase, make their own technical decisions, use LLMs only to accelerate monotonous tasks like debugging rather than outsourcing the process.

You are no longer a developer when you cannot function without AI.

These companies have managed to turn developers into recurring customers of the very tools they were told would make them independent.

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@Simonblox deal

[Janelle @_jyulo]

got a bloxopoly signed by david back in 2019 and now im rlly wondering 💔

[John Shedletsky @Shedletsky]

There's a full set of 2013 Bloxcon trading cards for sale on eBay right now.

Crazy what these go for these days, although this one hasn't sold yet, so who is to say.

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@codelead_ yes lmao

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@EGOTISMS_RBLX it’s true i was the officiator

[Janelle @_jyulo]

if ur a roblox dev or a tech bro i will go out of my way to help u on ur hinge profile

i had a friend go from one like every six months to a day to matching w two absolute baddies in one day from my advice

just sayin but dms r open

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@Shedletsky @ptrackrman see the glass as half-full not empty

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@2hex_ @ReconnectRy_n @NuggetD3v @SimplyALemonUGC so cutsey

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@SimplyALemonUGC CUTEEE

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@Beartikal fuck no

[Janelle @_jyulo]

selling to highest bidder

[Janelle @_jyulo]

instead of rdc stickers i’m selling liquid iv at 300% markup in light of everyone barhopping the night before

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@ProfineRB @DavidBaszucki @paradoxum_games banger

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@EGOTISMS_RBLX dms r open

[Janelle @_jyulo]

instead of rdc stickers i’m selling liquid iv at 300% markup in light of everyone barhopping the night before

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@Wishtap_ yo

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@asimo3089 @MrChickenRocket wait this is super cool, how does it work under the hood?

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@felpix_ ucsb too and it’s a state school

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@Repotted_ @I11yrian @Smokiixx @HZSMITH211 @FranFuzz @cirek_ in awe with how stunning the maps are

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@Crypticinvest1 there’s something to learn from everybody

[Janelle @_jyulo]

@SimplyALemonUGC girllllll 😭💔💔