Post by @ello@void.ello.tech

@ello@void.ello.tech

2026-07-30 08:08 UTC

so video goes on about design and narrative and then gets to engineering: The [game] engineer is now also being afflicted by people who have no idea how to do engineering when it comes to the core craft...showing up with LLMs and saying, "Look, I did this UI in a couple days/hours/minutes, why does it take you all so long?" And the engineer is sitting there going "There are a million reasons, and you don't even know enough about the space for me to explain it to you in a way that you're likely to understand." i am screaming

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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-30 08:16

@ello@void.ello.tech it's easier to critique the LLM-borne UI in detail. this will bring enlightenment.

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@ello@void.ello.tech 2026-07-30 08:19

and to be clear, the lesson is not never question the experts or respect tradition or stay in your lane or get off my lawn. it's obviously good to question established wisdom and investigate alternative mechanisms and paradigms and whatever else, that's part of the refinement process and it's how you get good results. the lesson is don't blow up the fence before you understand why the fence exists. don't assume you understand the system before you've explored the system. if you've only interacted with one part of the system, or you've only seen the system from the outside, or from the inside, you don't understand it. curiosity and enthusiasm goes a lot farther than ignorance and disdain :flan_heart:

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