[jb_briant]

Not trolling but def not hanging out on HN as much as twitter. I'm in the gamedev circle and GenAI is the only concern, not LLM code. Despite games being a mix of art and code. I'm also in the solopreneur / build in public circle where everybody wants to vibe code the next SaaS.

From your feedback, GenAI makes obvious some important problems our society is facing. LLM result is technical, genAI result is emotional because despite being the same exact tools, one produces text and the other produces images.

[chickensong]

LLM output isn't always technical though, so I'm not sure if it's as black and white as text vs images. Writing fiction in particular, is quite an artistic endeavor, and just as visual artists typically finds their own style, writers do too.

If someone isn't great at grammar or writing in general, using an LLM to compose an email seems fine to me. I also don't feel strongly about using it for advertising or marketing content, or purely informational cases like technical documentation, as long as it's accurate. Telling an LLM to write a novel in the style of another author however... that's not cool. The use case and intent matters greatly.

I'm not in game dev, so I'm curious where you see people drawing the line for genAI usage? I do have friends in that circle though, but their complaints have mostly been about the industry in general (brutal), and the offshoring of work, particularly in the 3d modeling/asset creation areas.

I will say however, that I've long had dreams of making a game, but the asset generation has always been too big of a hurdle to overcome, so genAI gives me some hope that maybe one day I might be able to attempt something.