About whether AI-generated games will make learning game programming pointless.
Has this happened?
Yes 19 (16%)Not sure 16 (13%)No 85 (71%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI-generated games will make learning game programming pointless.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Two things to say here. First, an AI might be great for some things but we are a very long way from AI having an artistic vision, let alone understand why games are fun, how to create new mechanics, innovate, and come up with a unique art style.
Second, you assume players know what they want to play so they can prompt it. You also assume this in a broader sense on all "personalized content". I think that the value of totally AI created media is completely unproven - if you only get what you can describe, it's going to a boring time. We like content envisioned by other people.
For an AI to actually create a meaningful, full length game, movie or series - we might be decades away if this is even possible without AGI.
Tl;dr: learn programming.