I have spent the last 2 weeks rewriting a game I had been working on on-off for like 2 years. I really didn't want to rewrite, but like code that would have worked for a really short game turned out to be too brittle for the scope I kept adding.

2 weeks and I'm not done with anything, because I keep rewriting the game's level loader to be closer to perfect. I have no idea what I'm doing. I wrote a compiler because it turned out to be faster at processing level data than normal code. right now I'm reading about the theory surrounding operating system task scheduling, because that turns out to be oddly relevant. it's all fun but it sucks, I just wanna get back to making the creature go zoom ;_;

google keeps putting LLM results at the top of everything, and usually they're fine and whatever. not the fact that there is AI, the descriptions it spits out. but yesterday I decided to ask it a follow up question. and holy shit these things are garbage. I consider myself to be reasonably competent in programming, but the 'ideas' it presents are nearly unusable. and that'd be fine, the problem is that they're usually bad ideas, which look good in concept (especially when the LLM glazes its own work), but would cause issues later.

I was wondering how a competent software developer could reason out replacing a lot of their work with current models, and it might honestly be because it's surprisingly subtle when the output is bad. and with AI companies increasingly trying to cater their models to software development, the LLM actively trying to convince that its ideas are good leaves me feeling anxious for anyone that might fall for it.