Molyneux is the perfect spokesperson for AI

Peter Molyneux is not a man historically known for the soundness or accuracy of his opinions.

The quote doesn't actually say "its now impossible to program without AI".

What it really is saying is "It's impossible to make a product without AI somewhere in the supply chain".

Which I still don't exactly believe, but its much different than what people seem to have read.

It surprises me 0% he would say that, and that isn't a compliment.

Yeah, bullshit. What, did someone Thanos-snap all code editors and game libs that existed pre-"AI" out of existenve? It's a choice, and he's just trying to rationalize his.

With the power of AI Pete is gonna overhype and underdeliver to an extent not thought possible before

I do it literally every day.

I have basic completion in my IDE that just completes property names.

I'm pretty sure all "his" good ideas were stolen from someone like the first Fable and Black & White and all his original ideas are barely worth being described as garbage so fuck off Peter.

It’s never an actual engineer saying this, always the “dreamers.”

Almost impossible for him? That I believe.

I have personally witnessed multiple coders who were once what I'd call proficient become shells of their former selves because they basically gave up thinking for years and can no longer just code like they once

Peter Molyneux saying this is the confirmation that it's all a bubble and a scam.

Isn't this the guy who took like 9 years to come out with fable 2 and it turned out to be a pile of poo

Suddenly everyone forgot how to program.

I'm still not using AI, still able to code. Sorry to hear he and his employees have lost their ability, just like we said they would.

I'm imagining doing Advent of Code for these AI suckers. Would that be fun for them? Do they just paste in the problem text and say "generate the solution, no mistakes" and that's fun for them? Where does it end? Bah.

imagine someone explaining to you that it is inevitable tor life's work must be stolen.

Is anyone still listening to what he has to say?

But can AI turn an acorn into a tree ?

I understand the idea and use of AI in coding but to say it's impossible to not is just stupid.

Ah, yes. The Jim Cramer of video games says to trust AI.

Umm. Just no. A lot of what I do at work, AI can help only in minimal ways. I know this because some people insist on using it, and I'm always seeing their trash PRs. Because it's just no good with such specific stuff where it can really only try to find generic solutions.

While I think the visual studio and similar auto completion stuff to be awesome stuff. The internal tooling we have to write code doesn't have this and guess what, we're doing fine.

But then I don't work in a game studio. I cannot say how it is in that industry.

Is it convenient for a lot of things? Sure it is. But, you know I try to avoid it for my own personal stuff, just so I keep the brain cells that are there for software development, active and able to do it unassisted.

Creativity or profit?

No, maybe not. One thing you still can do without AI is to think logically and critically.

He's actually right here, although the headline isn't quite what he said. It is legitimately becoming difficult to find any tools that do not have some AI integration. Like, are we going to expect game companies to make their own IDEs just to avoid having AI touch the development of the game? That's... just crazy. Unreal Engine has an AI assistant now, do all Unreal Engine games need to come with an AI disclosure? The goal is obviously to identify the stuff that is actually slop, not just stuff that was made with tools that could enable slop.

He's one hundred percent correct. It's just not popular to acknowledge reality.

If you take a very broad definition of "using AI" as ever having used a Google search where an AI summary came up, or having used a Linux or Microsoft kernel, IDE or software component version where AI was used for coding or checking/verifying the code in any way, then yes, it's almost impossible, as you will have to revert your tooling completely to a 2022 or earlier toolchain.

However, your decision to use an LLM (AI) to generate new code is fully your decision as a programmer to make, always will be and I don't think that's anywhere close to impossible.

Peter looking to take back his title of biggest dip shit back from Tim Sweeney I see

It’s VERY possible if you’re not a hack.

Lol Peter Molyneux.

Lol that chode is still around? Fuck 'em. Dude is a hack who is known for making bullshit statements.

Still sad that someone has been making grand, unverifiable claims about the emergent behaviours of AI that utterly fail to manifest for the last few years and it was not Peter Molyneux.

You did it 3 years ago? Your brain get fried in such a short time?

rabble rabble rabble rabble!

Using VS Code, it's impossible to tell what the recommendation or auto complete is from. Is it AI? Is it context of the current code? Is there a difference anymore?

Regardless, I write my own code and I use AI to teach me HOW to make functional code, since I'm poop at coding. I'm using as a tool for learning and self improvement.