Tim Sweeney

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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video games 8

A game is quadratically more valuable the larger the share of a player's real-world friends it can connect them to, and that is the number one trend in gaming today.
It is always right to ship a game late rather than bad, because a bad game is bad forever while a late good game is eventually released and is good.

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design 3

The existence of boilerplate code is itself a failure of programming language design and of software modularity, not a job for AI to take over.
Most of the pain a beginner feels while learning to program is not the difficulty of the craft but the failure of programming language design.

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LLMs 2

AI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard.
A compelling simulation of a human being could arrive within five years, and the technology is heading there whether or not it is a good idea.

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