> Sound like you need to learn to search. There's tons of resources on game dev.
I have been making games since / in Flash, HTML5, Unity, and classic consoles using ASM such as NES / SNES / Gameboy: Tons of resources are WRONG, tutorials are incomplete, engines are buggy, answers you find on stackoverflow are outdated, even official documentation can be littered with gaping holes and unmentioned gotcha's.
I have found GPT incredibly valuable when it comes to spitting out exact syntax and tons of lines that i otherwise would have spent hours and hours to write combing through dodgy forum posts, arrogant SO douchebags, and the questionable word salad that is the "official documentation"; and it just does it instantly. What a godsend!
> you won't know when it's bullshiting you and you're missing out on learning how to actually learn.
Have you tried ...compiling it? You can challenge, question, and iterate with GPT at a speed that you cannot with other resources: i doubt you are better off combing pages and pages of Ctrl+F'ing PDFs / giant repositories or getting Just The Right Google Query to get exactly what you need on page 4. GPT isn't perfect but god damn it is a hell of alot better and faster than anything that has ever existed before.
> whatever you're learning is probably irrelevant since it can be solved better by LLM.
Not true. It still makes mistakes (as of Apr '23) and still needs a decent bit of hand holding. Can / should you take what it says as fact? No. But my experience says i can say that about any resource honestly.
>I have found GPT incredibly valuable when it comes to spitting out exact syntax and tons of lines that i otherwise would have spent hours and hours to write combing through dodgy forum posts, arrogant SO douchebags, and the questionable word salad that is the "official documentation"; and it just does it instantly. What a godsend!
IMO if you're learning from GPT you have to double check it's answers, and then you have to go through the same song and dance. For problems that are well documented you might as well start with those. If you're struggling with something how do you know it's not bullshitting you ? Especially for learning, I can see "copy paste and test if it works" flying if you need a quick fix but for learning I've seen it give right answers with wrong reasoning and wrong answers with right reasoning.
I'm not disagreeing with you on code part, my no.1 use case right now is bash scripting/short scripts/tedious model translations - where it's easy to provide all the context and easy to verify the solution.
I'd disagree on the fastest tool part, part of the reason I'm not using it more is because it's so slow (and responses are full of pointless fluff that eats tokens even when you ask it to be concise or give code only). Iterating on nontrivial solutions is usually slower than writing them out on my own (depending on the problem).
I have been making games since / in Flash, HTML5, Unity, and classic consoles using ASM such as NES / SNES / Gameboy: Tons of resources are WRONG, tutorials are incomplete, engines are buggy, answers you find on stackoverflow are outdated, even official documentation can be littered with gaping holes and unmentioned gotcha's.
I have found GPT incredibly valuable when it comes to spitting out exact syntax and tons of lines that i otherwise would have spent hours and hours to write combing through dodgy forum posts, arrogant SO douchebags, and the questionable word salad that is the "official documentation"; and it just does it instantly. What a godsend!
> you won't know when it's bullshiting you and you're missing out on learning how to actually learn.
Have you tried ...compiling it? You can challenge, question, and iterate with GPT at a speed that you cannot with other resources: i doubt you are better off combing pages and pages of Ctrl+F'ing PDFs / giant repositories or getting Just The Right Google Query to get exactly what you need on page 4. GPT isn't perfect but god damn it is a hell of alot better and faster than anything that has ever existed before.
> whatever you're learning is probably irrelevant since it can be solved better by LLM.
Not true. It still makes mistakes (as of Apr '23) and still needs a decent bit of hand holding. Can / should you take what it says as fact? No. But my experience says i can say that about any resource honestly.