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theptip • today at 2:52 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict the opposite.

I think “the youth” are going to grow up with a Cambrian explosion of styles, mashups, callbacks, revivals, etc.

Right now a vibecoded game just uses the generic style. But you could easily imagine the kid saying to Claude “rebuild this game but in the style of that old show [Samurai Jack | Ren and Stimpy | … ]. We are so early in the tech curve, market penetration is still very low, and the “creator-years” in the medium is tiny; it’ll be 10x in a year if not more.

AI is amazing at style transfer, and so there’s a huge payoff for exploring and learning references to existing artists.

(I also think copyright will die pretty soon for similar reasons, that’s a separate take though.)