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A comment on Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software Still the Same? [video].

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by fuussssip on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:25PM (#50487639)
Jonathan Blow is one guy. He made a couple pretty good games. He's not particularly visionary when it comes to software development. Or perhaps he is visionary but it remains to be seen if his vision for technology is really material.

He regularly denies the use of new technology that is genuinely useful, and is a fairly conservative dude (I mean in the non-political sense. I do not know his politics. He may be a conservative politically as well, but that would be independent of the point I'm making.)

I've worked with many engineers at many different scopes. Big companies, indie darlings, web services, games. Games is always the last to adapt, always the last to think that anything they didn't invent is worth their time. Blow has experience in that domain, and is colored by working in it, but I don't think he knows what's happening on the bleeding edge very well.

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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by gunslinger_meta on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:38PM (#50488640)
A guy who made his own programming language because C++ sucks for game development but everyone was saying "eh, it does suck but its the best we have", and then made a blockbuster with it, is not a software development visionary? What are you smoking?
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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by bena on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:25PM (#50489142)
"Blockbuster" is stretching it.

On steamdb.info, Order of the Sinking Star has 1830 players right now, 2404 over a 24 hour peak, and 8247 all-time peak last month which was when it was released.

It is just beating out Cuphead, which released in 2017.

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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by bellgrove on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:11PM (#50491486)
The problem with Casey and Jon is that they have tunnel vision and can think only in terms of video games and the problems in that space. Their view is even more skewed in that they've worked in relatively small teams, to my knowledge.
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