It would be funny if this would end being the cause of consoles demise.

Decompiling is not new. Modding games that weren’t made to be moddable is not new. Heck, Pokemon DS games have been decompiled, hacked, modded, and what have you to hell and back for decades.

I'm still very cautiously optimistic about even this use of AI. For me it's about the loss of understanding the techniques and underlying process of this type of work and any work honestly. These types of advancements affect so much more than just games and it's like you said, both interesting and impossibly scary at the same time.

The Daily podcast just the other day had a very good interview interview with a mathematician about AI and the recent advancements of it potentially solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems that echoes your sentiments in their field.

Ok? Like, programming isnt magic. Why not make new games instead. Make some art.

I do not need more options, I'm paralyzed by choice as it is.

It's not awesome, actually.

It's super awesome. One modicum of power shifts to consumers to control the products they buy, and the corporatists come running with their "think of the devs" arguments despite devs not being paid in royalties/residuals.

maybe were closer to ready player one OSASIS than we think