: I mean, nobody's making it illegal to code for fun. Some people just prefer
: to free up their time for other things. You were the one worrying about
: the consequences of not paying them. And while I hate to be the voice of
: hindsight, I don't know if a career in Marathon fan games was ever going
: to pay off your loans.
Well I thought it would after I got my degree and took some game design classes.
But that other guy I went to school with that actually succeeded landing a job at bungie... I'm not sure that's getting his debt paid off, either. I think it's helping make some neon spraypaint colored ruins in a battle royale simulator as a prop to help line some stakeholders' pockets with whatever the next scheme is they're concocting in the seedy AAA underworld after everyone's caught on to battle passes/lootcrates/microtransations and that stuff stops working... I can't blame our generation of the workforce or even generative AI for Business As Usual though.
I actually like copilot as an always available mentor/assistant writing code though. It pokes you in the right direction and makes a lot of menial typing go by faster more than it acts like a crutch, at least in the right hands. It's a growing pain that we're probably going to have to learn to get the edge by working with AI instead of trying to fight it or lazily let it do our thinking for us. Our world right now looks like it's about to have it's own MIDA conflict/Misriah massacre, and we'll find out how we're going to deal with Traxus IV after the dust settles.
