P03 Locke

You already missed the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2.

Isn’t that another “can’t count to three” moment?

I don’t see any evidence this actually happened besides some news article talking about some guy’s tweets. Given the hyperbole, I’m more likely to think he’s just lying through his teeth and didn’t do any of those. I can tweet whatever the hell I want and pretend to own a company, too.

Open AI o3 is coming, and 90% of dev jobs won’t survive.

Developers will be the ones shutting the door on the way out to the singularity event.

Except that outsourcing sort of works for some jobs, with some expectation of (low) quality.

LLMs are a tool that solve for, at a very very optimistic peak, 60% of the work, and still need humans to refine it into something better. And I don’t mean it would generate a 60% quality product. It’s just an unrefined, unfinished shape of clay at that point.

You can’t just fire all of the devs, replace them with AI, and expect to get anything out of it. You still need people to try to do something with that AI, and they need to be developers.

Ignoring indie games here is ignoring the answer to the entire premise. It’s part of the equation.

It would be like complaining that there’s no place to see big cats, while not mentioning the zoo at all.

This author has no fucking clue that the indie gaming industry exists.

Like Balatro… you know, the fucking Indie Game of the Year, that was also nominated for Best Game of the Year at the Game Awards.

Localthunk was able to build this in Lua… WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!

Then people will do it to troll the game.