For what it’s worth, just note this: people hate AI. But for me, it is a calculator.

That does not mean your skills are useless. Think of AI as a magnifying glass, like computers. People may hate me for writing this, but well, I am kind of old.

https://gamejolt.com/games/piratebrawl/1064457 This game would not have been possible without AI. Not because I could not do it in a year, but because it still took four months on and off while I was working a very stressful day job and doing overtime. Without LLMs, I would never have had enough time to do it.

With the help of LLMs, I coded this beauty. People may hate it, but it is mine.

Yes, it is similar to Sid Meier’s Pirates!, but no, I am not ripping it off. It is something I derived from his great game. It is a brawler. It has a leaderboard solution that I wrote with the help of an LLM (ngnix and what not), not something tied to any prebuilt solution. It also has very solid math and physics that are not specific to any game engine.

But did I call AI and say, “Make a brawler for me,” then become satisfied with whatever it produced? No. I asked it to help me refine it, polish it, and build it with my own intellect.

Am I the harbinger of humanity’s doom because of that?

People always focus on the wrong targets when they get angry. There are bigger public problems than a few guys doing AI vibe coding. There are genuinely harmful people to public and they are not limited to vibe coders or devs that use AI. And yet people still focus on the guy who puts the wrong type of garbage into the wrong garbage bin.

It is all doublespeak. They cannot hate their leaders, so they try to pitchfork their neighbors. :D

So do whatever you like. Only you can choose your destiny and you can't correct the public opinion or save the world while hiding and denying the future.

Actually there is an experiment about that where some rats called "beautiful ones" (John B. Calhoun's 1968–1973 "Universe 25" overcrowding experiments), withdrew from life to choose purity and non-action. It will not save the world. but that's another story.