Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.
It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.
Good Name For A BlogVery Average PrototypesEarlier this year, I decided to give AI coding a go. In general, my emotional reaction to doing so was “anger and frustration”, but I found if I used it carefully it sped up what I was doing. It ate at me because all the ethical arguments against using it were strong.
Yet, well, indie game dev is a brutal industry that’s only getting harder, I was feeling dispirited, and doing largely solo dev meant that if I could speed up some aspects of what I do… I should at least consider it.
Replying to @vampiress@eigenmagic.net
The TL;DR version is essentially this: Writing code is not just creative in the "writing code is an art as well as a science" sense, but also in that every line of code you don't write is a million tiny design decisions you are NOT making.
@vampiress I'm not a game developer, but there are some strong parallels with this in web design/dev land.
Recognise the strengths and the weaknesses.
@devolute @vampiress The longer this mess rolls on, though, the more it seems like it's just all weaknesses.