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try to carefully use an LLM to do a thing -> "you're an idiot" try to carefully describe the ways you tried to be rigorous about using an LLM to do a thing -> "well you're clearly not an average user" try to carefully describe the ways you try to help average users use LLMs do a thing -> 😡🔪🔪 etc

Another day on the internet being told that I'm an entitled nepo baby who hates the poor and also thinks they're stupid and also that your podcast episode about the "this is your brain on AI" paper is lies. I should have blocked that person faster.

But a lot of people screamed at me for saying it and I'm still kinda mad about that.

but it was really hard to scale that technical cliff and im not sure im comfortable with the idea that scaling it was a choice and not a necessity

I think it's possible to distinguish between "these types of learning are necessary" and "this is the only way to get them" tho!

The thing is if you want to deliver a full polished game you still probably DO need to learn that stuff, at least the fundamentals. But being able to learn them a little at a time, WHILE doing the thing you enjoy, instead of feeling like it's an obstacle between you and that thing seems... better?

Real game devs write hardware-specific code in assembly. No engines allowed. Godot and Unity are cognitive offloading.

Okay so that is actually the literal point that I very sarcastically made. Because yeah! We do not judge games by the degree to which their code was written by the developers! We never have! That's not a thing!