grizzyyo

Vibe learning with AI is awesome. I write the code while AI patiently answers my many questions. I wonder with so many hating on AI generating code - do they miss out on actually learning new topics from AI? As a solo game dev without a game engine, there is a lot that I don't know and have never made before despite having worked in the field. Signed Distance Fields font rendering is one of such system. After grilling AI for a bit of why my fonts didn't look as clean as professional games do, I learned about SDF fonts. It's not something I ran into before or even knew as a way to make the fonts look better. It wasn't necessary in my pre-AI career. But once I understood the technical process the implementation was easy. One key to that understanding was grilling AI on many details of the process. It's something you would usually only get by working closely with an engineer highly knowledgeable in the task. If you didn't have such an engineer near you pre-AI, the fallback was digging through blogs and papers and stitching some understanding from that. I am finding that AI coding is mostly useless, but turning AI into a patient teaching assistant has been amazing for me for the last two years of working on the game. If you already come with a ton of experience to sniff out nonsense you can guide it along and cross examine it until you get the information. Learning from AI is like having access to an experience engineer who is very drunk. Do you need to carefully watch every word? Yes. But if you have enough patience and experience you can extract a tremendous leaning value from it. Vibe coding is the fake promise that managers are preaching but the real objective value for the last year has been vibe learning.

I took a break from making videos about my game and it went from 50-100 Wishlists a day, down to 0. Nearly 10k Wishlists in 6 months with no trailer, demo, next fest, or influencer coverage... just videos. Steam isn't going to market your games for you, it's a constant grind.