What Casey Muratori thinks about AI and jobs

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Game and engine programmer, creator of Handmade Hero and of the Computer Enhance course on performance-aware programming, and a long-standing critic of object-oriented design orthodoxy. He worked on the user interface of Jonathan Blow's The Witness, which is the codebase his writing on compression-oriented programming draws its examples from.

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26 Aug 2026

Our readingThe games industry already ran the experiment everyone expects from AI, when engines became licensable, and the results were not good news.

Their wordsI've said like the licensable engine thing kind of was our AI transition already unfortunately and uh I regret to inform you that the news is not probably that positive.

↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com 16th of 26 in this recording