I have some strong feelings about this particular story (people point LLMs at your devlog)…

- Video devlogs were long a shitty way to make a community (I can explain this one in more detail, but in short, the tradeoff between opportunity cost and video quality is a Pareto curve that is bad at all points on the curve, if your goals include both “make game” and “build community for players with devlogs”, the way out is to drop one of those two requirements, either “make YouTube/Twitch/TikTok channel” replaces “make game”, or you build some other audience for your devlogs)

- Good devlogs don’t have that level of detail, to let people easily recreate games

- Most games can’t easily be replicated by LLMs, in short, the people who are good at steering LLMs like that are making their own games.

This is not the first time I heard this story. Sometimes it comes with the lamentation “back in the day people could build communities with devlogs” and no, that was generally not a good way to build communities. It was mostly good streams from YouTubers who were making the game in order to make YouTube content or it was mediocre streams from random devs. Throw in a few people who are famous game devs who choose to stream and get a big audience because they already have a community.

> indie game developers have stopped the traditional practice of updating a dev log as a form of marketing and community building because people will point their LLm at it and create your own game before you do

And that's why we can't have good things...

(This is just gonna keep happening more and more until eventually we'll need something like a patent system for ideas)