“Think about what this means … the original SimCity ran on a Commodore 64. An empty Chrome tab takes more memory than that entire machine had. We’re not constrained by hardware anymore. We’re not even constrained by understanding what the code does … codebases will 10-100x in size because AI … endless bugs … the question is whether you’re building with it or explaining why you’re not.”

Looking through the eyes of an AI champion, I see a world where the first execution of any given idea, the first product to hit the market for any given need, is guaranteed to be AI-generated - with the “10-100x size” codebase, the corresponding (and often superlinear) decrease in performance, and the attendant “endless bugs”.

But then, I suspect the article is AI slop. Take this:

> Christopher Ehrlich just did something that would have taken a team of engineers months. He pointed OpenAI’s 5.3-codex at the entire SimCity (1989) C codebase and let it run.

No, that wouldn't have taken engineers months.

> Four days later: the game works in the browser.

So someome used a (very slow) program to translate a program.

> No code reading.

What?? Osmosis, then?

And we are expected to believe this with just a picture.

Is the guy preparing for Mid-term elections and looking at ways to better lie its voters ?