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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by nonethewiser on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:12AM (#50393301)
>If you're working on a small game project without an existing framework/platform, you usually build a really bargain-basement game editor alongside it. That editor takes a long time, and it's often spent in arranging UI stuff.

Not in an age of AI.

I mean if you want to code all this stuff by hand, I get it. But that doesn't mean shoehorning a Blender UI into a "bargain-basement game editor" is a generally useful thing because it would take you a long time to arrange UI stuff without AI.

Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by beepbooptheory on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:41PM (#50397338)
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by nullstyle on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:00PM (#50397593)
I think it’s just about as weird as questioning somebody’s motives on an Internet comment thread. I certainly share GP’s opinion about game tooling, but i’m here because i still care about making good software and that involves learning about and navigating technological developments as they happen. Is that sufficient reason for you?
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by beepbooptheory on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:49PM (#50400101)
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by nullstyle on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:04PM (#50400238)
You are reading them wrong. I think they mean “customer facing” instead of user facing i.e. the player doesnt care if the level editor has some jank: they never see it.

For the types of tools that your coworkers are paid to use, vibing a first draft and developing from there is so much more time and money efficient than writing by hand that you would be dumb to spend your tooling budget differently.

Thats how i read it. Someone still needs to use tools, no one is saying that claude is going to one shot mass effect 4 yet.

Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI by jasomill on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:27PM (#50399908)
Depending on what you and the other poster mean by "arranging UI stuff", AI could either solve the problem for you or create larger problems, especially if you're not opinionated on either technical or UI matters.