Comment by rbtprograms
16 hours ago
well, i did go check out the company spawn from the article. its certainly interesting how hands off their process is and how much they ship, but holy shit the games were fucking horrible. there was a direct WoW ripoff (right down to the assets) that was unplayable, a racing simulator where my controls stopped working 10 second in, and some sort of RPG that i started and just never loaded. so i will take what they are saying with the heaviest possible grain of salt.
Yes exactly this is my standard for everything now. You can spend an unbelievable amount of tokens doing all kinds of things that are interesting as processes in their own right.
But is the outcome good? Is the game fun?
at the end of it: is anything of value delivered to customers? the company might say "well users make the games with AI, we just serve them and host the multiplayer." okay, but again, what value was created? they brag about being one of anthropic's top customers; congrats you are handing VC money to anthropic. why should i care? theres no answer for why anyone should care, because to them the system and clout is the product, the product doesnt actually matter.
at least thats my read on it. i dont know how else to understand whats going on here.
cynically, tech (or maybe even capitalism itself) feels like its slowly degrading into nothing but vibes and scams to get that quick buck and/or exit
This is just like when crypto people were pretending their NFT/metaverse games were fun, it's pretty funny.
I guess they didn’t read Simon Willison’s latest post on how to make fun games with AI assistance.