HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Would you watch YouTubers making original games live via AI in one hour?


So it would be like watching Bob Ross videos but with video games instead of paintings.

Of course, in a live broadcast, ideas for the original game to build could come from viewers.


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
Bob Ross was a genius at what he did.

I could make pastel sketches faster than he makes oil paintings but they'd look like they were drawn by a kid and I'm sure I would come across as naive, inarticulate, and ignorant of art technique though I am sure I'd get better at it if I did an episode every week for years.

Making a good show of it would involve having a plan, framework, and really knowing what you're doing.

I would look to this guy's video series on building CPUs based on FPGAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fNBkUCjhcE&list=RDCMUCBcljX...

Pretty clearly he is starting at zero and teaching himself as he goes along and it's entirely unrealistic that he's going to livestream developing his Zork machine. However, he approaches it in a way that is really pedagogical and anybody who follows this series will learn a lot about how simple CPUs work, how you make logic on an FPGA, etc.

He eventually regroups and starts a CPU building process he really can finish. It's a good example of an ambitious development project on YouTube I think.


👤 sokoloff
I would watch some amount of it, just to learn how others are using a tool that I have only an emerging familiarity with.

For any given creator, I doubt I’d watch more than 45-90 minutes unless it was exceptionally interesting (which seems not likely).


👤 shortrounddev2
tbh watching people make things with AI is really boring. I would prefer to watch people write code themselves and actually solve problems than have them generate the solutions

👤 verdverm
Have you watched any programmers on Twitch?

That will tell you what you want to know

tl;Dr, to be successful you have to produce a certain type of content that can loosely be called programming. It is primarily entertainment, not educational