Afritheos

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[Afritheos @afritheos]

Lazy people are better at using AI

[Afritheos @afritheos]

@markessien Aswear 😂

[Afritheos @afritheos]

I wish @sama will allow for 2 users of the normal @ChatGPT paid plans.

I feel sad watching it go to waste 😭

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

When I was writing Unreal Engine 1, my time was divided as follows:

- Around 30% went to seriously deep coding on hard problems: assembly language texture mappers, C++ BSP trees, data persistence, object oriented systems design, and networking.

- Around 70% was just typing and refactoring large bodies of code needed for a complete engine feature set. This was not hard, and while I was doing it my mind was mostly on the deeper coding topics, thinking and planning for what's next. It didn't feel much different from vibe coding today, except that it was just me typing code on an IBM Model M keyboard rather than prompting it and reviewing the results.

So, it has always seemed perfectly logical that we would rely on AI for that 70%, once the AI could do it with a similar quality standard as we could, which has never been perfection. It came as no surprise that, after a few years of AI model evolution, it was able to take the reigns on that 70% and free up programmers' time for more valuable tasks.

What's more of a surprise is the emergence of AI as a sort of insta-Carmack able to solve hard technical problems quite cleverly and often cleanly, and that it's able to reason about and work in complex 3D scenes both by operating the tools and by directly understanding the raw data files.

I abandoned assembly language in 1998 when out-of-order CPUs made much simpler C/C++ code faster, and never I missed it. If prompting through architectural documents, concept art, and design plans can transcend typing code and tweaking vertices, that will enable developers to spend their time on higher-level, higher value technical and creative tasks.

What matters is the end product, whether it's a game or an engine. Anything developers can do to try out more ideas and make better software and games faster is a win for everyone.

[Afritheos @afritheos]

I have these African game ideas I will start working on today.

[Afritheos @afritheos]

@SSL_2004 I think not embracing AI will kill them faster 🥲

[Afritheos @afritheos]

This is just the beginning...

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration.

The aim isn't to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal.

[Afritheos @afritheos]

When AI comes for your field, you go through 3 stages:

1. Denial: AI can never do this.
2. Rationalization: AI is just a tool to help us.
3. Realization: AI can actually do this, and it's only getting better.

We've seen this play out in writing, art, design, video, coding, and more...

The cycle keeps repeating.

[Afritheos @afritheos]

@blossomozurumba I support this 💯 @Shalom_HeyEliy

[Afritheos @afritheos]

I like what #Lagoslife represents for Nigerians. 🌍

Our lives and cultures are worlds worth building.

Glad to see others competing with games rooted in African experiences. New ideas, new ways to monetise.

I think we’re only seeing the beginning.

[Afritheos @afritheos]

@Shalom_HeyEliy African Metaverse... I like it 🫶

[Afritheos @afritheos]

Worlds are getting easier to build. 🤔

Now we need what connects them: an open metaverse core. Plug in games, set rules, carry one identity.

Some exist. I doubt they’ve caught up with today’s tools.

Engine, tool, platform agnostic.

Who’s closest?