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What part did you do?

I can also buy a painting instead of painting one.

The demoparty Assembly actually has an vibe coded demo competition. And maybe that is a solution to the problem, but it just does not interest me.

Sceners are no strangers to imposing artificial constraints on themselves. Just look at high end 64k, 8k, 4k, and 256byte intro coding, there is no real reason for it other than the challenge. So I really hope this mindset can be applied to AI use as well.

Because building something with AI is not as impressive as building something without it.

No, its not at all similar. Comparing shader coding with AI prompting is just dumb, sorry.

I think i was pretty clear in my original post.

Its about people doing the seemingly impossible with technology, not technology doing whats possible with technology. If you use AI, you did nothing but ask it, and i could never be impressed by that.

And how would you vote in the competitions at demoparties? By tokens used?

Most parties strictly forbid the use of AI in production, but im afraid some people aren't honest enough to abide to that rule.

I understand that it might be nice to be able to play old demos in your browser, and its fine, but...

Please keep AI away from the demoscene.

Ive been active in the demoscene for almost 30 years, its a big part of my life, and i am truly worried people using AI to build tools and code demos will destroy it by removing the very reason why its interesting. I want to be impressed by real peoples knowledge, skill and creativity. Not your ability to prompt.

Mostly, i hate the AI remaster option. It was never intended to look or sound like that.

Nice to see Setsukos blog here on hackernews! She has done a lot of great interviews with sceners over the years you should check out.

I met her once at Tokyo Demofest, and I still feel bad about making her try the Swedish licorice I had brought... :)

Most typefaces all look the same to me... I think I'm typeface blind if there is such a thing. It's all just text to me...

You kind of miss what the UNESCO Intangible Heritage list is actually about. It’s not like they’re handing out gold stars to things they think are "the best" or most "exceptional.

The whole point is to recognize and help preserve living traditions.

It kinda looks somewhat like sámi clothing to me

A cool feature for sure, but, kind of ruins the whole concept of that a chiptune is. For me its about the limitation of the system. If that is not one of the core reasons you are into chiptunes you might as well use whatever you like to make music that go plipediblop. (edit): Then again, i have always considered mod and xms that use samples and sound like chiptunes to also be chiptunes even though they fall outside of the true definition.