Good grief is Sweeney an insufferable cunt.
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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Where's the meltdown?
it was right after he got SLAMMED, and then later he was DESTROYED.
If he isn't BLASTED, I'm not interested
personally the threshold of my interest varies between TORN TO SHREDS and ATOMIZED TO SMITHEREENS
That is breaking corpo face pretty heavily, imo. Starting with "this is bullshit" as a public-facing figure, in response to a very straighforward anti-AI take is about as meltdown as you can expect from a CEO on social media.
You think lashing out and insulting members of the public on social media, who weren’t addressing you at all, is normal CEO behaviour?
Imagine responding to one of the most wholesome people in the entire video game industry with “this is bullshit”
Real “Hans, do you think we’re the baddies?” moment
I like how he suggests C++ is inherently superior to C, or that 3D is inherently superior to 2D, in the same way open source is superior to closed source.
Despite >=90% of his companies' codebases being strictly proprietary, and guarded so heavily you'll drown in fines if you leak as much as 3 lines.
Well of course he likes open source, I'm sure a ton of it has ended up in their proprietary source.
Not to mention vibe coding wouldn't be a thing at all without decades of open source for the LLMs to draw knowledge from.
Kenney is awesome.
It's wild to see the dude who became famous for just making and giving assets away for free, have enough clout to ratio the CEO of Epic. lol.
Ohh! That Kenney! Yeah he is awesome indeed!
Tim Sweeney is just mad cause he's discount John Carmack and weeaboo Gabe Newell.
c to c++ isn't really moving forward, it's lateral, and i don't mean that as a slight against c++ (for once, lol). same with 2d to 3d. turns out tim sweeny just says shit thinking we're stupid, imagine that.
if he really knew anything, he would have said "c to rust," which would have also been nonsense but it would have gotten a funnier reaction at least.
2d->3d -- bigger number
c -> c++ -- two extra plusses (and plus already means extra!)
games -> epic games -- it's got "epic" in the name
You don't have to be a genus to see these are all better!
As a wannabe game dev in Godot: it is absolutely insane what Kenney is putting out there for free. They are legends.
Do yourself a favor and drop the "wannabe" part of that self identifier. If you're making games, you're a game dev.
It's hard for me to get past the fact that a person has willfully deferred their creativity and skill to an AI chatbot.
At that point, to me, you become a no talent ass clown.
At least of the folks I know that have gone all-in on GenAI, almost all of them never displayed much creativity in the first place.
One that I at least once had some respect for had walked away from doing any creative work 20 years ago. I frankly had sorted out about a decade ago that he was more "right place right time" than actually knowing his stuff. But he had a fairly common narrative I've heard a few times now: "I walked away from coding years ago, but I'm back in thanks to AI!". There's always good reasons they walked away in the first place that are generally not fixed by embracing AI.
Broadly the GenAI steps on creativitiy and skill by not producing precisely what the content creator wanted, so it favors people who don't really have an opinion on the specifics, and without opnion it's generally pretty flawed premise.
Hardly a meltdown, it's a single whiney slightly condescending response.
when the fuck has Tim Sweeney made anything open source in his entire life?
Maybe he meant taking from open-source instrad for paing for a service
from closed source to open source

From closed source to vibe source (it's open if Tim feels else his lawyers will see you in court)
"Up yours?" Why go through all the trouble creating the impression that you're interested in good-faith arguments if you're ending your message with that? What a jerk.
That's precisely what stood out to me, as well. Not sure if the double entendre was intended, but the message is clear.
Up yours, too, Tim.
when is he is never in a meltdown, seems likes it every time valve hits some milestone with its customers.
"Meltdown"
Tim Sweeney is a dipshit
Tim cries himself to sleep every night because he knows deep down he's just a cheap knockoff John Carmack.
Hey, you dont talk shit to Kenney! Kenney is a saint in the GameDev world and many of my learning projects would have no good assets if it weren't for him and others like him. Fuck off, Sweeney.
That's totally an indignant crash out... Fucking asshole in chief sitting there forcing AI down the throats of devs like grain down a goose chasing those phat phuckin slop-grois profits. I'm far from anti-AI, but this fit in or fuck off monoculture shit is toxic and unacceptable.
Kenney is based.
He proceeded to list changes which gave good, astonishing results, where no art was stolen and no backlash happened.
Then he compared those changes to AI vibe coding? What results can he bring to the table for comparison?
It's been years now, so let's do a game and compare what years of 3d instead or 2d gave us, or the same with C++ instead of C.