@p The rich SV touts singing the praises of AI coding are paying for the high end versions with maximum context. They also might be mediocre coders for whom an AI assistant is a godsend.

Apparently Anthropic has 300,000 customers on the $100,000 a year business plan, so either there are 300,000 suckers or it's good for something.

Games have been slow to adopt generative AI because until very recently the models could only generate a few seconds of coherent footage. With GOOG's Genie that may have changed in just the last two months.

On the other claw Lucasfilm had procedurally generated fractal terrain in Rescue on Fractulus in 1984.