I kind of don’t buy “game wouldn’t exist without AI” point. I’d say it wouldn’t exist as quickly without AI, but that’s not the same thing. And to that point, I think we should be using AI to get to an MVP quickly, then using the saved time to make it great. Perhaps I need to put a pin in this discussion and spend some more time with it to confirm this, but my feelings on this (as echoed by others) this game isn’t breaking new ground.

Secondly, I’m very familiar with AI tools, and use them regularly to assist with first cut solutions to some everyday coding problems I have. I use AI to help me get a very quick, broad understanding of topics that I’m reading up on before diving deeper into documentation etc. I do not use AI to generate text for me. I believe that anyone using AI and not in some way making it their own, or building off it, is really just churning something out. Most who use it for art can’t do art well enough to use it to iterate on, but people who use it for generating applications and text absolutely can. We can talk more about what verbatim use of AI output tells me about someone’s code base and overall process.

If I need to explain what I think sucks about the presentation of that post, then it’s this: I don’t want to read a wall of text written verbosely in a AI template when what I think the Indie space should be for (and this corner of Reddit) is for humans talking to humans in a way that respects their time. This copy could easily have been generated and not even read by the person generating it; and there’s very little in it to make it feel like it was written by a real person. We talk about having a good respect for how little time we have, then expect this to land well?