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What is the alternative here? If you assume everyone is already going into the blender, that means everyone is going into the blender and it doesn't matter anyways. If we don't go into a blender, but you spent the most crucial 4 years of your career saying everyone is going into a blender, I fear for what your career prospects will look like on the other side of that potential blender-less future.

I think you should spend more time reading what people who oppose AI think about what AI is capable of doing. Many people still don't understand that it can search the web.

Can someone tell me if I should invest in any of these or just wait until mitchel's multiplexer is out?

What I see a lot of in my own industry (games) is that people that don't like AI either 1) see something that changes how they think of it and start the slow path of adoption or 2) continually dig their heels in and/or refuse to update their priors.

As technical qualms were solved and many other capability issues with AI have been solved, the continual heel digging and goal posting by group 2 has started to just feel more akin to a religious stance than something based on any specific fact. There is no version of AI that they want to see, they will oppose it on moral(-ish) grounds on sight, etc.

AI has real issues, but like you, observing this re-adjustment in realtime has been really interesting, especially as it seems to come from people I share 99% overlap in interest and politics with, but who hate AI like they do.

It also feels akin to de-radicalizing MAGA or something. The rejection or idea that they are wrong causes a whole worldview to collapse in something akin to ego death, so instead of facing that possibility they just insist they are right.

Really great write-up!

This 1000x.

At the same time, the lack of this makes it then very easy for me to tune out harness noise.

"Thing" style systems are very common in AAA. I link to the interview with the Dreams (Media Molecule) team where they describe a system very much like this. ECS is also not mutually exclusive here.

I honestly didn't except this to get traction on HN so I'm updating the blog post now. I just read some recent post too that was like "mistakes technical blogs make" that I think brought up this same point yet here I am! Thanks for the tip.

hello, author here!

It's definitely not my intention to try and describe ways for making game development be more turnkey. I'm more trying to directly address ways to make non-one-shot (read: actual) game development be more tenable when an agent is involved.

You pose an interesting theory related to "if star wars was real they would have robots fly all the planes". In that, something our own nostalgia and hubris will ultimately lead us to always mostly demand manned aircraft.

I have had a lot of things just kind of _happen_ by virtue of writing blogs and publishing software. These things all have very strange second lives that exist beyond your own initial conception of them that is consistently surprising.