there's maths to be done here. Decent cover art will cost perhaps £400-£800 for a small press, assuming an illustrator is involved. If it's text only, or they're using a stock photo, less. How much will AI cost them in lost sales?

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Imagine how much cool shit you could learn through reverse engineering a proprietary graphics API, why would you throw all that potential knowledge and skill away just to get some shitty unreadable code that works until you have to do any maintenance? It sucks man.

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"Oh boy a MechWarrior 2 map viewers!" >vibe coded "Oh boy a PowerVR wrapper!" >vibe coded "Oh boy a new renderer for MechWarrior 4!" >vibe coded I feel like people already didn't see coding as a type of art and now it's really clear to me they don't. Everyone just wants an end product.

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I try not to think too much about the vibe coding slop apocalypse, but after seeing like five promising retro game projects I've wanted for years turn out to be slop mere seconds after discovering them, I think we should just destroy all vibe coding models.

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the news keeps making me wonder if we're heading toward a two-layer internet in some form layer 1 is a dysfunctional mall, castles built on failing castles, it's accessible to everyone but has no purpose beyond product layer 2 requires significant tech knowledge to even access, but still knows joy

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