Seems like he's just quoting Adams himself. Adams was popular for his self-deprecating humor.
Adams used to tell people the secret to success was being in the top 25% at multiple things - he could draw and he could make corporate jokes, but he was not exceptional in either of those things. It's not really a pot shot, more of a tribute. He's still saying Adams was just below Leonardo da Vinci.
Less about the degree to which Adams was talented (which, as you note, Adams might agree), more about how much his books sucked and the ideas within them were ridiculous, arguing that Adams' claims regarding hypnosis were entirely bogus, and that gaining popularity as Scott Adams the blogger-slash-podcast host (as opposed to "Dilbert guy") "destroyed him."
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think it's fair. AI has hit skilled labor/professionals pretty hard and it buys time to give jobs to the locals who were affected by layoffs.
Yeah, I think Copilot is partly responsible for the huge gap between people who distrust AI coding and those who are excited by it. It appears to be the most used tool, which also about covers the opinion gap.
A big part of the right agent is tool use. Even OpenAI Codex is poor.
You should be able to just screenshot a Jira ticket and paste it into a tool these days. It may not do the whole ticket, but it gets you half of the way, and at the very least puts you near the right file.
1) Steam hates AI. Steam is at least 80% of the PC market. If you were doing multi-platform, it's just too big of a loss.
2) The indie community is hostile towards AI. Expedition 33 was disqualified for barely any AI use. Even things like brainstorming titles or generating textures will get you exiled.
3) Nano banana tier AI doesn't seem consistent enough to do assets properly. You need to remove the backgrounds. You need to wrestle it into following instructions. It does save time and you can do things like draw 5 guns and have it generate 4 more in the same style, but that's not much better than Diablo 2 recoloring units.
4) While not outright hostile, most people below 20 recognize AI art with a glance. Capsule and ads are immediately indicative of the game being AI slop even if it's not. If you have something AI-looking in the screenshots, people simply move on to the next game.
5) While Elevenlabs produces some impressive sounding audio, they're still not at a voice actor tier. They're only good enough for scaffolding and trigger uncanny valley.
I stopped reading it at that point. I'm not against AI-written articles; I even think it's a little rude to accuse. But I agree.
I think we do develop "antibodies" against this kind of thing, like listicles, clickbait, and random links that rickroll you. It's the same reason the article isn't titled, "5 examples of ASCII-Driven Development. You'll never guess #2!"
Every article is a little mentor, and the thing with mentors and teachers is you have to trust them blindly, suspend disbelief, etc. But the AI voice also triggers the part of the brain designed to spot scams.
They can and often become worse. Look at Saddam Hussein and his family. They were monsters, but the reason they engaged in torture and fearmongering was to keep the other monsters in place.
Collapsed states are the worst, these becomes breeding grounds for organizations like IS.
Most places often hold as failed states and by our standards, they look terrible. Law enforcement doesn't work, so gangs become enforcers. Money doesn't really work either. But it still beats total anarchy and especially anarchy of a region with a lot of natural resources. A few hundred billion dollars of oil may not be much to a country, but it's a hell lot to terrorist organizations who are waiting to come in once the US pulls out.
Adams used to tell people the secret to success was being in the top 25% at multiple things - he could draw and he could make corporate jokes, but he was not exceptional in either of those things. It's not really a pot shot, more of a tribute. He's still saying Adams was just below Leonardo da Vinci.
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