throwawaybackag

Not denying that- what Im saying is the effort with AI is several magnitudes less than without AI, and skips the learning of any actual skills.

Have you ever tried to create a game to the standard of the one featured in the article? There is no way the required level of skill is the same.

My intro to game dev as an 10 year old was learning to use my cousins C64, writing some BASIC text based games. It was pure joy discovering programming that way.

It is utterly depressing to think that kids will never take that path again. Instead, we will get pulling the slot machine lever, zero skill, zero effort, nothing gained.

"Creating something" now means typing a few text sentences in to some prompt and paying money to these companies that want to essentially make humanity redundant. Instant gratification, no hard earned skills at the end. Compare this to the kid building something themselves with scratch, improving on it, moving on to Godot etc.

The AI boosters in here saying how amazing this is are being incredibly short sighted.

Anyone doing this with their kids: please take a moment to think about the implications of what you are doing. Even explain to your kids what an LLM is, the moral implications (massivley capital funded companies have stolen so much content to make this possible and now want to sell it back to us) and the importance of effort and learning real skills.

You used k8s for a webapp to teach your kids letters?

Yep. It's like when you discover emulation and ROMs for the first time. The initial thrill and excitement of all these games... then you play a few minutes on each and it feels pointless. AI is going to destroy so many things we love.