- The recent onslaught of ripoff/decomp clones of commercial games and major applications, which don’t really produce anything with competitive advantage and simply reveal a pervasive opportunism and dearth of original thought, comes to mind.

- The fact that little that seems truly inspired has emerged, even as the tools continue to produce produce faster, in higher quantities, with increasing complexity, and how reliably quickly the sheen wears off of successive generations of models, once the details resolve and human expectations calibrate.

The most excited among those using them seem to be those who are impressed with how much better the LLM can perform at a given task than the user prompting it, rather than how well the results compare in the real world, in others’ eyes, over time.

And it is notable that these tools are ascendant in **the industry-friendliest, least-adversarial environment imaginable,** in which even those who command armies and economies are in their thrall.

With all of the bad that comes with this, I do see a glimmer of light, least of which is that presuming we make it past whatever Jonbar hinge we’re living through, we’ll have a more refined understanding of just what it means to be a human creating.