AAA dev here.

Carmack is correct. I expect to be dogpiled by uninformed disagreements, though, because on social media all AI = Bad and no nuance is allowed. If that’s your knee-jerk reaction, please refrain for a moment and calmly re-think through your position.

EDIT: lol called it

Nothing annoys me more as a AAA dev than weird, annoying armchair critic nerd-ass dweebs thinking we’re “lazy”. Okay, you try this shit, then. I have the UE5 editor open right now, and I’m busy squashing bugs and optimizing our game. I’ve been doing it for 18 hours a day for months, sometimes 7 days a week. This stuff is way harder than you think, even with the proper amount of time, money, staffing and expertise.