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 jdw64 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:35PM (#50487789)

If we exclude AI art assets from that criteria, wasn't AI also used for coding in Mecha Chameleon, which recently achieved big success? Quite a few games have AI code in them. I know of a Korean game company too. It's just that labeling yourself as having used AI is marketing-negative, so it hasn't become widespread.

Just recently, someone used AI code to fix a Unity engine bug and hand-wrote the rest, and it still caused a huge uproar. It's a world where honestly disclosing that you used AI code is not a good idea.

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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by mjr00 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:40PM (#50487856)

I'm not talking about using AI to help code, which seems obvious, the parent commenter is talking about people building game engines and assets from scratch in a weekend. Meccha Chameleon was built on UE5[0], and Big Walk (the game you're talking about where the devs solved a bug using AI) is using Unity. Both of these games, I believe, took longer than a weekend to create.

[0] https://www.unrealengine.com/developer-interviews/meccha-cha...

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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by jdw64 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:41PM (#50487881)

I misunderstood what you said Thank you for correcting me.

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