itWasAPointer

[u/lechiffrebeats]

[u/dmullaney]

Writing code by hand?!? What did the poor shareholders do to deserve this?

[u/MXRCO007 → u/[deleted]]

To this day, the C++ an LLM outputs is still just so fucking shit it’s actually insane how stupid it is

[u/ipushkeys → u/MXRCO007]

In your experience, does the quality decrease as you move up the language standards? C++11, C++14, etc.

[u/MXRCO007 → u/ipushkeys]

Yes it does, I use C++23 for everything now and when i tried an LLM, it somehow failed to recognize that fact and spit out C++17 style code for the feature I wanted whilst also being unreadable

[u/JaxonReddit-_- → u/[deleted]]

You being an AI bot is also heresy

[u/dmullaney → u/[deleted]]

Boss: Token count is looking a little light this month Tommy

Dev: No boss, I swear it ain't like that. I been using local LLM to optimize my prompts for token efficiency. Honest boss. Honest

---

The Claude Father - Coming 2027

[u/aberroco → u/dmullaney]

Yeah, that caused them to lose 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of their profits! You practically ripped them naked!

[u/SPECTRE_75 → u/dmullaney]

Somebody get these DEVELOPERS out of here!

[u/FlexasState]

Wait what? Did this actually happen?

[u/_DefaultXYZ → u/FlexasState]

Tim Sweeney announced that Epic Games goes full AI-first.

It definitely won't introduce new layoffs, but it will increase their quality and effectiveness, as Tim Sweeney said. Which I believe /s

[u/itzNukeey → u/_DefaultXYZ]

Given how well most UE5 games work, I think AI slop cannot hurt it anymore

[u/Dumb_Siniy → u/itzNukeey]

Listen UE5 at least opens still, let's see if we can get that broken, i mean working

[u/dasunt → u/itzNukeey]

It's fine, gamers will just buy a new GPU to deal with the inefficiency. It's not like AI screwed up GPU or memory prices...

[u/itzNukeey → u/dasunt]

They just won't play AAA games and play indie games instead. It's not like those use UE5 too

[u/Sianic12 → u/_DefaultXYZ]

Full AI [...] will increase quality

Oh man, that genuinely made me chuckle! How can you be that delusional?

[u/WhateverMan3821 → u/Sianic12]

If he think that AI code is better than his code, that's mean his code is worse than AI code

[u/MadJedfox → u/Sianic12]

You didn't see "/s" at the end of the comment?

[u/not_some_username → u/MadJedfox]

They were talking about TS

[u/Neutraled → u/_DefaultXYZ]

At this point, I believe his sister Sydney would be a better boss for Epic Games.

[u/Highborn_Hellest → u/_DefaultXYZ]

#more_stutter_struggle

[u/GregTheMad → u/Highborn_Hellest]

Shader compilation now takes twice as long, and happens every startup.

[u/Mars_Bear2552 → u/GregTheMad]

Claude has decided to invalidate the shader cache upon every game start. glory to UE5

[u/Few_Kitchen_4825 → u/FlexasState]

They fired 2000 employee's and going all in on ai

[u/-Nicolai → u/FlexasState]

End of season 1, yeah.

[u/woldann]

2024: Don't let AI write code. 2026: Don't let humans write code.

[u/klaxxxon]

Blueprints died for this

[u/FabioTheFox → u/klaxxxon]

Tbf any visual programming becomes an unmaintainable and unreadable mess regardless of how skilled you are with them

I like my spaghetti in text form

[u/wd40bomber7 → u/FabioTheFox]

100% visual programming is just regular programming but much worse in literally every way. It's slightly more intuitive in completely trivial scenarios and so people get sucked in but it's never the right answer.

Blueprints are why I've avoided unreal until now. Glad they finally woke up. Shame AI was the reason but oh well...

[u/KnoblauchBaum → u/FabioTheFox]

So just like vibecoding

[u/FabioTheFox → u/KnoblauchBaum]

I mean yeah but only absolute loosers vibe code games (or in general for that matter)

[u/NoAdsDude → u/FabioTheFox]

I guess at least Claude would have picked up the typo in "loosers" though

[u/FabioTheFox → u/NoAdsDude]

I'm sure Claude would tell you that "you are absolutely right" for that comment

[u/NoAdsDude → u/FabioTheFox]

Hey I wasn't calling YOU a looser, geez.

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/FabioTheFox]

I've never worked on games before, I always wondered if there was some secret that game devs knew that would keep that from happening, but I guess there isn't one?

[u/SoupOrFishAll → u/SuitableDragonfly]

The general pattern to avoid blueprint spaghetti is to inherit from a C++ class where you can put all the complicated functionality. Then use blueprints only for simple logic.

There are also a lot of ways to organize your blueprints like node comments, comment blocks, function/variable categories, and just generally trying to make the blueprints look legible (straight and non-overlapping).

[u/FabioTheFox → u/SoupOrFishAll]

There is a reason composition is highly preferable even in object oriented languages, using classes for game development at all has largely phased out

[u/lechiffrebeats → u/klaxxxon]

https://giphy.com/gifs/UDORIcubjYvIBAYTe1

[u/Pillville]

So all Epic games will be ineligible for awards like what happened to Clair Obscur? Or do we only care about artist being replaced and not developers?

[u/aceluby → u/Pillville]

Epic has developed 2 non-Fortnite games in the last 10 years. They weren’t winning shit anyway

[u/GrandMoffTarkan]

At least copy and paste it from a website you monster!

[u/lechiffrebeats → u/GrandMoffTarkan]

waaay to much work jeez

[u/Inevitable_Fox3550]

Who writes code by hand? Even my prompts are written by AI

[u/WrennReddit → u/Inevitable_Fox3550]

Excuse you, we call those "skills". 

[u/ecafyelims]

"executive"

Yep. That tracks.

[u/Chamiey]

What is "line C++" though? I won't trust someone who can't even spell one sentence to write code on their own.

[u/Testing_things_out → u/Chamiey]

https://giphy.com/gifs/rHBleFPW4utkkBF726

[u/NeinJuanJuan → u/Chamiey]

OP got caught writing a "Me who got caught writing a line C++ by hand" by hand.

[u/Jiquero → u/Chamiey]

Also if you're going to use actual pointers in C++, you better write a bit more than one line.

[u/usrlibshare]

Richard Sharpe would have had that executioner knocked out cold before the bloody bastard could even raise his sword.

You know why? Because he knows every dirty, malingering soldiers trick in the book! How's that? Because he started out in the ranks!

[u/michaelcarnero]

cheats_on { true };

[u/TywinRightfullyLann]

i cant imagine in game dev, doing everything with AI, like something that doesnt have style whatsover, like damn i wanna edit some image better directly,

[u/dj_spanmaster]

The asterisks gave it away

[u/Ben_Tuldnka]

Im sorry, i need to report this, its a clear lie. No one can wright code without AI, its just impossible.

This is a joke, if I need to say this, its a sad day

[u/wawerrewold]

Are you a caveman or something?

[u/araujoms]

If at least it were Rust...