Tim Sweeney vocally supports child porn and deep fake porn? He certainly looks like the type of creeper, so I guess I’m not that surprised.

I wonder how many times he’s been to Trump and Epstein’s Pedophile Island 🤔

Most serious tech companies have just straight-up stopped all remote interviews. It’s simply too fraught with cheating, fake people, and foreign operatives. Interviews are in person and include hand-written code, because we’re back to high school trust issues baybeeeeee

Most answers on SO are either from a doc page, are common patterns found in multiple books, or is mostly opinion-based. Most code AIs are significantly better at the first two without even being trained on SO (which I wouldn’t want anyway - SO really does suck nowadays)

Better yet, isn’t Sony doing that exact same thing by thinking that putting an AI autoplay function into the games is what all players want or at least a gross majority?

…no? Where on earth does that come from?

Does adding a higher difficulty mean that the dev thinks all players want to play on it? Does adding accessibility features imply that everyone wants to play with subtitles? Does adding colorblind mode mean that they believe all of their players are colorblind?

The same logic can be used for difficulty settings: you play it, in harder and harder settings, to have a new/added challenge.

I can absolutely guarantee that 99.9% of players do not ever replay a game they’ve beaten. You’re generalizing your own values and goals and they’re absolutely not as common as you think they are

MMOs are the only modern games where anyone really cares if the player cheats

…what?

“For the first time, artists and game designers can take full ownership of world generation, with complete control over the final result,” Collins-Laflamme summarises. “This is a fundamental shift away from a world shaped almost solely by programmers.”

So… they just have no idea how other games work? Interesting thing to brag about…

Hytale’s world was always intended to be curated and procedural. This means designers have significant control over what appears in the world and how, even though it’s procedural.

This is literally just describing the gradient that is curated <-> procedural. Your game falls somewhere on that line, full stop. Again, it feels like they’re just flaunting their own ignorance, here? Maybe it’s just arrog- sorry, confidence that they’re doing it “right” where no one else has.

I’m not trying to shit on the game - I’m super excited to see where they go - but this article (and specifically Hytale’s world-gen explainer) are just absolutely ridiculous.

Offended by a simple comment but calls that person a snowflake. Prime loser mentality 👍 good work, snowflake.

I also appreciate the increased security

This hasn’t been true for a long, long time. Mac was only ever more secure than windows because not enough people used them to make them worthwhile attack vectors. Nowadays, iOS sees just as many vulnerabilities as every other popular OS.

…you’re so far behind the times, it’s comical. Yes, there are microphones around you transmitting the shit you say (or at least sentiment markers from it). Absolutely insane that there are people who don’t believe this today.

Which is a general statement and not dealing with your specific circumstance. If a tool works for you, by all means keep using it.

Absolute nonsense. Do people talk shit about hammers because some people keep hitting their hands with them? Do people complain about how useless ladders are, as one of the single most dangerous items in any household?

I don’t think we should be putting these tools in the hands of junior devs - as the studies show, it hinders their productivity and learning. But to generally claim that they are bad tools with no upsides is just as ridiculous as the strawman you set up.

What about my comment made you believe I was using gut feelings to judge anything? My ticket completion rate, number of tickets, story points, and number of projects completed all point to massive productivity gains.

Anyone blindly having AI write their code is an absolute moron.

Anyone with decent experience (5-10 years, maybe 10+?) can absolutely fucking skyrocket their output if they properly set up their environments and treat their agents as junior devs instead of competent programmers. You shouldn’t trust generated code any more than you trust someone fresh out of college, but they produce code in seconds instead of weeks.

I have tripled my output while producing more secure code (based on my security audits), safer code (based on code coverage and security audits), and less error-prone code (based on production logs and our unchanged QA process).

Now, the ethical issues and environmental issues, I 100% can get behind. And I have no idea what companies are going to do in 10 years when they have to replace people like me and haven’t been hiring or training replacements. But the productivity and quality debates are absolutely ridiculous, as long as a strong dev is behind the wheel and has been trained to use the tools.

That doesn’t make it a shitty camera, that makes it unsecured. Those are very different problems.

A honest person has right to live without being tracked.

The implied corrolary here is that a dishonest person doesn’t have this right? How is one determined to be dishonest?

If the lens is getting wet, it’s an awfully shitty surveillance camera.

How on earth is that not part of development? I don’t personally mind that they used it in that way, but it is not debatable that they lied and have been fraudulently marketing the game. Follow the rules of the fucking contests you enter.

If I only made a single cut with scissors and then switched to an xacto knife, did I never use scissors?

I don’t understand your argument at all. Your first comment seems to disagree with the ban, but this one explicitly agrees with it.

Your example is weird because it doesn’t exist. There is no restrictions on how chess players train, only how they compete. All you’re doing is building a strawman, not an analogy.

And to be clear, they didn’t get banned for using AI. They got banned for lying about using AI. You can agree or disagree with the rule itself, but it’s not debatable whether it was in place when they entered the contest or whether the studio lied about it.

I dont understand the purity tests we are putting artists through

I love how “don’t break the rules and lie about it when entering a contest” is a purity test, now. Y’all are fucking wild.

Or just don’t lie about something that is against the rules for the contest you’re entering? Seems easy enough.