Tim Sweeney: belief

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…I think for me personally, it makes it more fun and faster to generate boiler play code so I can focus on the harder decisions, harder big picture decisions and harder innovative decisions and all that kind of stuff, and just makes programming more fun for me because I feel less lonely. Even when it gives the wrong code, I get like, “Oh, okay, well that’s a way to do it. That’s interesting.” Then you could talk to it. Maybe that shows something about the programming experience that it is in part sometimes a bit lonely. The topic of boilerplate code is an interesting one because the mere existence of boilerplate code is a failure of programming language and of the idea of creating software modules. You ask AI to create a sorting function, great. Now you have another sorting function that might be buggy alongside the million others that different people have written. It would be better to have a sorting function that’s been written and tested and optimized and everybody relies on it. More modular software I think will actually reduce the opportunity of AI because people doing programming work will largely be solving unique problems. They’re actually hard problems in themselves and not just connecting other widgets. I think as in many cases, AI will just help improve the human systems by shining a mirror to ourselves. I have to apologize for the pothead question ahead of time, but you’ve been, let’s talk about the metaverse broadly. You’ve been a big proponent of the idea of the metaverse. We’ll talk more specifically what that means today, but we’ve been talking about simulating reality better and better and better. The pothead question is what does it take to simulate reality to the level we see around us today? How far away from that are we to simulate this ultra-realistic, immersive fun reality that earth is? What does it take?…

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