The midterms dont mean a lot while this still happens. America still has a lot to fight back against and a lot to prove for the rest of the world.

This article is about a computer not a mobile phone. There is already rich competition in the computer dev space compared to phone.

All operating systems for computers already do this. Confusing bar to set.

Huawei has been working at this for a decade. I agree with some of your take but you are exaggerating the timeline. Also India is catching up rapidly to China too.

The US falling does not mean China will supplant them. China struggles to build alliances and have serious border disputes with nearly all of their neighbours due to Chinese imperial ambitions in the region, and how the CCP treats diplomacy.

Also, the AI bubble is popping in China too which has shed hundreds of billions too.

We can criticize and should criticize US and Israel, without glorifying another despotic regime.

You put that so well! I will re-use your good description.

Good points! Although close. Its not decompilation, LLMs are actually bad at this due to limited context windows. Most articles I see suggest LLMs support coders recreating known outcomes using templates. Devs still do tonnes of work.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/entire-games-are-being-ripped-off-by-ai-and-things-are-only-going-to-get-worse/

Steam argued its mostly due to single mechanics getting recreated, suggesting devs spend more time fleshing out new mechanics as LLMs are really just helping devs recreate workflows.

“Rather than relying on a single mechanism that someone can easily copy, you must continue to grow your game by adding features, personality, and creativity that stem from your own perspective as a developer.”

https://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-addresses-steams-ai-game-problem-as-devs-face-threats-well-copy-your-game-with-ai-and-release-it-first/

LLMs make solving known patterns easier. But devs still do most of the work.

Here is a recent example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1xoishj/my_game_was_cloned_with_ai_what_do_i_do_game/

The cloner cloned used AI to build templates and workflows to copy mechanics. He still did a lot himself. Also because the indie game used asset packs the cloner could use the same.

LLMs can’t recreate complex assets too well either so they still need to steal models and rigs etc for big games.

Not sure you read my post as I was showcasing the limitations of these tech.

Most fail to grasp LLMs were trained on over confident stackoverflow posts and terribly lazy tutorials, and worst of all we turned off human to human feedback loops to give it more training.

Its why comp sci circles of mine joke/worry we cant get past python 3.12 because LLMs have no human-created training data for new versions now that we stopped using traditional human to human platforms for that.

Its not really AI so much as developers can copy/paste and vibe code but serious projects still require proper effort. LLMs help developers who use them discerningly but every successful project has more developer than LLM still.

Cool will do :) we are a good year away from more openly marketing. We’ve done a few game dev conferences and learned so much but our game is ambitious as hell. Took us 2 years just to build sub systems. Finally done that and now we are on features and gameplay. Getting exhilarating. Our Monday night mini tournaments are so fun. But long way to go.

I suppose! Another part of it is we are indie devs. Years of programming experience but not on games. So we are learning a lot as we go! And hope to make new friends along the way looking for a platform to do the same.

Wow amazing! Its tricky to play against AI at this point as its an arena game so hit me up if you wanna try with people. We have a tournament coming to help with that too!

We are still easily a year away from serious marketing but with all subsystems built we are having so much fun with features and content now.

Lol. No. I am a life long programmer and founded a successful, profitable AI company, and train governments and industry around the world (my name is here, you can find me to verify) and I think this is hogwash.

Programming depends on creative solutions to new problems while LLMs are trained on an increasingly diminishing source material. They cant move past python 3.12 is the joke/criticism in computer science circles.

Evidence shows llms make engineers SLOWER and any serious engineer who gave them a full try understands why. They guess poorly and confidently, erase logic, have poor architecture.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/ai-productivity-workers-workday-efficiency/

LLMs are pattern machines not sources of truth or intelligence.

Indie dev here and day job is an AI consultant, engineer and academic. Truth be told genai just isnt that good. It averages to the mean so it will only really be useful for some things. The issue isnt no AI or all AI but about disclosing how much and when. Using llms to support (but not replace) programming borrows from stack overflow so is less a copyright issue. But fully replacing your code or artists with gen ai will make for shit games.

Oh thank you! Its most fun with friends as an arena game as the NPC ai is still just getting going. Feel free to join our discord to find other players. We have a mini tournament every Monday night too. :) we hoped to meet other gamers or devs on this journey. Awesome! https://discord.gg/ahZGXCvTH

Im going to share this with the team thank you :)

I am a co founder of Hermertia Wars. Bunch of indie devs making our dream come true by working on an Action RTS that takes characters from our 13+ year lore playing minecraft community, and makes them heros you control while recruiting villagers, soldiers, and directing economy. Like AOE/warcraft 3 meets smash bros. Early game. We have a long project in mind. Would love new playtesters or meet folks interested in indie dev :). We are also a workers cooperative which is the best part.

Meanwhile we were so afraid to hit submit we tested for months even if we were just launching a playtest build. Sweating before every early build submission and our steam review.

Even if it was actually a rubber stamp im glad we took so much care and am glad steam is setting up more tests like this.

Edit: i would like to add our reviewers were super kind. Our unreal build had some obscure issue and they fixed it for us, pushed it for us, and showed us clearly what it was so we understood. But. Dayem. Thats good service and support ngl.

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