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Clearly. But we’ve seen demonstrations of highly skilled folks being able to make outsized progress using LLM.

It can be an acceleration when wielded by someone who can keep the model focused.

I mean, most of the advances he made in Mario 64 come from having a deep understanding of the game's code, while enjoying the process of coming up with new ways to improve the code. Having an AI go through your hobbie like that (since he's doing it both for the sake of it and for his M64 romhack) is kind of spoiling the fun, I guess?

You really gotta lay off this childish “all or nothing” mindset. You can use AI without it doing all the work for you. You can use AI to work on a hobby. You set the limits the tool is allowed. AI is a tool.

You can, but there's no need to.

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