'We support the work of those who are trying to limit the harm generative AI is doing to videogames and our world, and apologise that Big Walk’s LLM usage may not meet their standards'
There are endless threads to discuss in this, but two really seem lost in this debate:
The distinction between vibecoding, and lower levels of LLM tool usage.
How widespread the latter already is in software development.
Basically, if you’re a dev coding for money… you’re already interacting with text models, somehow. You have been. Everyone reading this post is using code touched by them, up and down the stack.
Hence I don’t think people realize how impractical the “purist anti AI” stance really is. It’s like asking devs to avoid anything touched by Microsoft or Facebook: a good idea on the surface, but how on Earth would you actually do it?
I think what gamers really hate is higher levels of vibecoding and tool usage to make slop. As they should. As well as support for authoritarian entities backing them. But this just isn’t a practical debate without discussing where to draw the line, rather than an absolutist “LLMs or no LLMs” take, as the latter is going to catch basically every dev on the planet.
In the modern internet and tech, get away from AI entirely, period. It’s being shoved in our faces everywhere, it’s copilot on your Windows 11 machine, it’s being used to develop Linux distros, most numbers you call for support force you through AI bots first.
There are endless threads to discuss in this, but two really seem lost in this debate:
The distinction between vibecoding, and lower levels of LLM tool usage.
How widespread the latter already is in software development.
Basically, if you’re a dev coding for money… you’re already interacting with text models, somehow. You have been. Everyone reading this post is using code touched by them, up and down the stack.
Hence I don’t think people realize how impractical the “purist anti AI” stance really is. It’s like asking devs to avoid anything touched by Microsoft or Facebook: a good idea on the surface, but how on Earth would you actually do it?
I think what gamers really hate is higher levels of vibecoding and tool usage to make slop. As they should. As well as support for authoritarian entities backing them. But this just isn’t a practical debate without discussing where to draw the line, rather than an absolutist “LLMs or no LLMs” take, as the latter is going to catch basically every dev on the planet.
You can just not use it personally?
In the modern internet and tech, get away from AI entirely, period. It’s being shoved in our faces everywhere, it’s copilot on your Windows 11 machine, it’s being used to develop Linux distros, most numbers you call for support force you through AI bots first.