Tim tweets regarding AI read like anti woke copy pasta rants replacing woke for AI as the subject matter. Maybe he asked chatbots to rewrite arguments using his favorite anti woke influencers as a template.
What none of these tech idiots get is this was never the scarcity anyone wanted to solve. We already had an avalanche of games. We didnt need genAI sprinkled everywhere to make it worse. Nobody would have cared if these were scoped for programming and dropped onto dev machines, but again programming was never a bottleneck. You can’t generate away out of the art, maybe you could have used it to generate bones and the shit ass parts of 3D modeling to free up artists to just create. It didnt have to be this way. But they wanted their centralized surveillance machines. None of this scale up is actually about genAI. Its about surveillance.
/rant, sorry
And actually after watching the video and thinking, you dont even need AI for that. Classical computer programs do generate bones good enough for you just to edit them. You could solve it with just math to “free artists”
I work with a lot of software and am seeing this everywhere - problems that would be efficiently and cheaply solved with classical approaches but are solved with slow and expensive inference.
Just recently I saw an llm call to extract a postal code from a structured input. Regex would be trivial to solve it, but the person who set it up used fking LLM. What a joke.
There was recent drama around a completely vibe coded attempt at multiplayer Daggerfall. All of the prompts were leaked into the original github repo. One of the best was when Claude was asked to change an inventory icon for a fish. Claude’s response was to create from scratch a pixel art editor just to spit out a 36x24 PNG of a rotten fish.
And these guys wonder how they can possibly be burning through literally thousands of dollars in tokens every month 🙄
PEBKAC- Use codex for images, Claude for code.
BUT that is hilarious 🤣😆🤣
I kinda wonder how they end up there. Couldn’t they have just asked the bot to make the regex code if they were already using it? I imagine I am just being fucked by my biases here cause I would already to know to ask it for that.
I can only imagine there’s a lot of people who learn programming who are unaware of a lot of principles and techniques. Everything’s a nail to them, so they make use of their hammer, which in their case is Claude or ChatGPT.
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Yes, they could have. Easily. They didn’t think to ask.
That’s the limitation is this LLMs, they can action if the instructions are sufficient, but layer 8 is still involved, and the l8 root cause persists.
To be honest, I’ve wasted entire evenings on regex. Fuck regex. We need a replacement that isn’t an llm but fixes that archaic shit. Make it human language
Yeah, that’s fair. If you have one problem and solve it with regex, now you have two problems.
Though in this case the monthly inference budget ran out causing a system outage. I was on call, so, getting a page off hours makes me dislike the llm approach even more haha
If being out of tokens causes an outage, you have architectural problems
Steve isn’t wrong…
My theory is that Tim Sweeney knows Epic is failing, so the whole thing about bragging about AI was to try to get other companies to AI slop stores together to attack steam
The guy clearly isn’t really in it for gaming at this point
yeah the one consistency is that he is often trying to be controversial and bold. So has an extremely attention seeking personality, or he is desperate. Maybe both.
I’ve always felt like something shifted for the worse at Epic about 20 years ago between UT2004 and UT3.
Off course Tim. How did this man survive for this long?
