That would inconvenience their shareholders.

Except that recreating code is legal. Or at least, broadly and in itself, fully legal. That's why you have game clones and they exist just fine for decades (civilization clones, VCMI, etc etc).

I didn't know it has ads. I used it to avoid sending a direct link to Twitter.

Why in the world aren't you blocking ads!?

Laught in adblocker

No /s needed. Chinese LLMs will be the go to for anyone who wants to do more and spend a lot less on tokens.

Someone linked an interesting article recently which I unfortunately didn’t save. The gist was that Anthropic and the others set out to sell cheaper workforce (I.e. replace programmers), so they can sell the service to all the big software giants out there.

Problem is, that these tools also enabled people to just create own solutions instead of buying existing solutions anymore. Or to rebuild an equivalent for something otherwise proprietary.

So instead of making workers of big tech obsolete, they made big tech obsolete (well, not fully yet, but you know what I mean).

They likely try to counter this a little bit now. Won’t work though, since open weight models have been and still are catching up.

Money.

So instead of asking it to build a game like x, we ask it to write design documents of x, and then we ask it to implement those?

DeepSeek, rewrite this .claude.json file.

Is this the end of game rewrites?

No...