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Y'all know I still code games the old-fashioned way, because I do that on my stream for everyone to see. There is a strict no-AI policy for any visual work I do, professionally or personally. I want to draw, animate, and design. It's my craft. But software is also utilitarian to that end.

Now, I've experimented and made utility software with AI (on my website, disclosed as such, including source). I wouldn't call them vibe-coded: I'd ask for a function, read, understand, integrate, test, and debug it. Its similar to a pre-AI workflow except I'm not constantly going back to examples.

I'm not minimizing, its proliferation has just hijacked the process. Using digital tools and to do better, faster work was always part of the job of the digital artist, so it seems systemically impossible now to not leverage it, moral implications aside, even if I want to do the drawing myself.

What can a guy like me do? What do you think this process should otherwise look like? Genuinely asking. Its something I've been thinking about a lot.

To address the above: people were credited with their code solutions when you find one on stackoverflow. For those people it mattered, and it's often a tracked metric on a site. It also pays towards site ads and other financial models. I think treating code like isolated data is not a good thing.