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Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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Looking forward to most posts having “No AI” tagged on. Definitely a huge plus.

This makes me wonder if there will be a time when "No AI" will be considered up-scale (of sorts) like hand-sewn clothes or artisan bread

Yes, like proper cooking became slow food, we will get slow programming.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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In an age where games are written by algorithms and dialogue is generated by AI, The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge stands apart. It’s the first open world "like" modern text adventure written entirely by a single human being, no AI, no procedural generation, no corporate fingerprints. Just words, code, and imagination. Built in pure QBasic, The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge now spans over 3,900 handcrafted rooms which will be…

> games are written by algorithms and dialogue is generated by AI

I don't think we're there quite yet, and hopefully we never will be. A tiny minority of games, maybe.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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In an age where games are written by algorithms and dialogue is generated by AI, The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge stands apart. It’s the first open world "like" modern text adventure written entirely by a single human being, no AI, no procedural generation, no corporate fingerprints. Just words, code, and imagination. Built in pure QBasic, The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge now spans over 3,900 handcrafted rooms which will be…

Maybe "human generated" is your marketing hook, but I personally don't care what the source of something is, I care about the quality.

Well, the current rule of thumb, speaking generally, is that human work is of a much higher quality than AI work, so the original comment seems fair.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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This makes me wonder if there will be a time when "No AI" will be considered up-scale (of sorts) like hand-sewn clothes or artisan bread

And, of course, it will be inferior to what the machines make. Just like machine created cutlery is essentially perfect, but human smithed cutlery will have lots of small imperfections.

Cutlery is, of course, a very different thing from artistic works. Has a machine ever created cutlery as beautiful as a human being can?

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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This makes me wonder if there will be a time when "No AI" will be considered up-scale (of sorts) like hand-sewn clothes or artisan bread

Yeah, I imagine “hand-coded” will be a common phrase on a lot of repos soon

Maybe one day but, right now, I think the onus is on the minority of AI repos to declare it rather than the other way round.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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Yeah, I imagine “hand-coded” will be a common phrase on a lot of repos soon

Maybe one day but, right now, I think the onus is on the minority of AI repos to declare it rather than the other way round.

Agree, but they have no incentive to. I always tell Claude to remove its attribution from commits because it’s not a great signal.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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And, of course, it will be inferior to what the machines make. Just like machine created cutlery is essentially perfect, but human smithed cutlery will have lots of small imperfections.

Cutlery is, of course, a very different thing from artistic works. Has a machine ever created cutlery as beautiful as a human being can?

Well, conventionally a human being designs the cutlery, and a machine produces to that design.

And yes, they can be quite pretty.

What you see as the absolutely most beautify fork is in the eye of the beholder, of course.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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And, of course, it will be inferior to what the machines make. Just like machine created cutlery is essentially perfect, but human smithed cutlery will have lots of small imperfections.

And yet many people pay small fortunes to get those small imperfections instead of the machine ones, nowadays considered collection items.

Yes, humans pay for all kinds of interesting quirks.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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And, of course, it will be inferior to what the machines make. Just like machine created cutlery is essentially perfect, but human smithed cutlery will have lots of small imperfections.

Cutlery is, of course, a very different thing from artistic works. Has a machine ever created cutlery as beautiful as a human being can?

Handmade cutlery is an artistic work. Machine made cutlery is an artistic work.

Remember, the benchmark for art is a banana taped to a wall.

Re: A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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Cutlery is, of course, a very different thing from artistic works. Has a machine ever created cutlery as beautiful as a human being can?

Handmade cutlery is an artistic work. Machine made cutlery is an artistic work. Remember, the benchmark for art is a banana taped to a wall.

the benchmark for art is the first banana taped to a wall.
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