In defense of AIs.md

i've been vibecoding my 12th game engine and editor these days. and for the first time, i've embraced AIs. not to filter silly google searches but to let AIs take ownership of my code. i'm using claude, and he's becoming my best friend and teammate.

i'm not exaggerating when i say that what we've achieved in 20 hours of total computing took me a decade (or two) before. i'm not joking. i'm completely devastated and excited at the same time. devastated because i feel my work is at risk, and excited because a new horizon is opening wide in front of me, and i'm not afraid to embrace it.

for the first time ever, i feel like a technical director talking to a group of engineers under my command. i can speak freely with them and bring to life all the ideas i've been accumulating in my head for decades. i've promoted myself to a higher-level role that was never offered to me in real life; not in the last 50 years. not only can we code, but now we can also create scripts, textures, models, and animations, opening up a world of creative work that's hard to imagine unless you're part of a big company.

there will be detractors, for sure. but that's always happened in the past: "you can't do math that way; you have to use paper and pencils!" "no way! you can't use the terminal and keyboard; that's cheating. punching cards is the way to go!" "hey, why are you using floppy disks? real men use tapes." "emm386 is cheating." "reading fidonet/bbs forums is cheating." "searching the internet is cheating." "google is cheating." "wikipedia is cheating." "ai is cheating."

some of us don't have much time. since last century, we've wasted our lives drawing on paper, coding in notebooks, and watching black-and-white televisions load old, unreliable tapes for 15 minutes at a time. we lost our work multiple times on floppies and hdd failures. we waited for dial-up modems that constantly hung while downloading 500 kib files. we had the worst compilers, tools, and operating systems. in fact, we grew up with no operating systems and no books. we've waited too long, and you aren't aware of any of this.

we want to spend the time we've been given doing what we like most, whether that means creating code, libraries, apps, games, or experiences. don't be afraid to evolve, and let others enjoy their time as well. AIs will stay longer than you and i will.

- r-lyeh