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Re:Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game by nicbou on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:15AM (#50436338)
I am still imoressed by hand-painted signs in Nepal and India - enough to take many pictures of them - even though AI-generated signs are now everywhere.

My watercolours still impress people enough to get requested even though they're fairly mediocre.

I can't imagine not being impressed by something made by _the person that I created_ because a machine can spit out a neater version of it.

Re:Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game by uptrails on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:24AM (#50436407)
Because we're not curating a culture of this, certainly not in tech. On HN, we celebrate AI output more than human work, in the sense that many stories make it to the top only because a project was done with AI. When people point out that they prefer human output, they usually get comments about getting on with the times. In threads about mathematics, people root for the destruction of that community. And on, and on.

Other communities are more protective of human output, but in tech, the number of people you can impress with human creativity has diminished by orders of magnitude.

Re:Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game by nicbou on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:05AM (#50436658)
HN is a bit of a microcosm and this generap disdain of art and process is not my favourite part of it.

However is this how the rest of the world works? Moreso than before?

Re:Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game by debugnik on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:54AM (#50440400)
Game dev sits in a now awkward range between tech and art, so I expect it to become much more polarised on this topic than other collectives which lean either way.