LLM-generated copycats of games really do get at the heart of why you can't simply divorce LLM generation of code vs. other mediums. Game mechanics are creative work that's enshrined in code. There isn't a clean division between vague handwavey "boilerplate" code and code that defines crucial logic.

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I cannot begin to tell how dispiriting it's been to work in the industry and watch as people who I respected or at least thought were better than this turn into zombified "I don't even read the code anymore" hacks

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It's definitely their inability to be humble in the face of an ever advancing landscape. All of these guys have seen their role of programmer change into manager and their egos didn't know what to do with that.

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So the way I understand it, decomps have a baseline level of "truth" where if the code compiles to the same game, its technically been "decomped", its something you can easily verify/test against cause the output should be the exact rom you started with. ... but that's entirely useless on its own

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