kescusay , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Sigh… No, it’s really not. It’s a neat toy, and cleverly designed, but it’s not actually going to replace any developers.

I don’t think people actually understand how many moving - and disconnected - parts there are in a real application. What that video shows is something that has some built-in generic 2D physics components mashed up with GPT for interpreting drawings combined with text descriptions and guessing what you want from them.

It’s neat. It’s a step up from those JavaScript ragdoll physics games from ten years ago, where you could draw shapes and have stuff bounce off them in interesting ways.

Now tell it to store game saves somewhere. Now tell it to include a login screen, with OAuth integration. Now tell it to synthesize new, unique music - making sure not to violate copyright, of course. Now tell it to render its assets in 2.5D. Now tell it to include score sharing.

See what I mean? We are years - if not decades - away from AI being able to actually fully generate a useful, usable application from scratch, based on nebulous, imprecise instructions and guesswork. There are many, many things it simply can’t do right now, because doing them requires knowledge, and generative AI doesn’t know anything.