"No one is generating video games for people to actually play" — prompting is the game now
nptacek · x · 2026-09-10
Developer bentlegen observes that people are no longer generating video games for anyone to actually play — the prompting itself has become the videogame. In the AI era, the fun is shifting from the finished product to the act of generation, a take that resonated across the AI community.
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