I have mixed feelings about the integration of artificial intelligence into our digital spaces. On one hand, public platforms are deteriorating. From YouTube recommendations to mobile game ads, our feeds are flooded with low-quality “AI slop”—clickbait thumbnails and content engineered purely around anger and hyperbole. The internet has become a frantic, exhausting battle for our attention.
Yet, as a creator, generative AI has completely revolutionized my workflow by automating the tedious parts of development:
- Game Design Documents (GDD): I can instantly generate a robust structural base for 15 GDDs a month without redoing the groundwork every time.
- Workflow Automation: Converting a massive document into actionable JIRA tasks used to take days; now, it takes an hour of high-level planning and bulk creation.
Beyond productivity, experimenting with these tools has brought back a sense of community. Sharing new AI discoveries in private chats feels exactly like the early days of the internet—reminiscent of finding an old IRC channel or a niche forum.
While the public internet grows increasingly dull due to algorithmic noise, the backend world of AI innovation has unlocked a frontier that is just as exciting as the internet itself once was.