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My job requires me to know all the ways they can go wrong, so alas, inescapable. But hey, job security!

Having the thing that is bad at math and bad at programming build a math program is not an improvement. :p

We're talking about WotC. I would hope that they would be expected to maintain professional standards.

It's good at generating generic, common code, it's going to struggle with robust, complicated code, because as with math it doesn't actually understand anything. It's handy for getting started, but programmers will still need to understand what they're doing and apply actual programming skills.

The only useful thing for GenAI to be doing is to help search the older books and settings bibles for data. "Help me find all references to Elminster in a comedic context" "list all the classes that use animated objects" etc. There would be a lot of value in having a program that simulates...

This is more of a result of propoganda, basically institutionalized gaslighting to preserve the profit for a self-deckared elite subset. It's a long historical thing that I am ill-equipped to speak about, but the instance that always comes to mind is how the ancient (Greeks? Romans?) pushed to...

What? Neither spellcheck nor GenAI are AI.

I correct spellcheck and grammar tools all the time. :/

Google is worse than it was four years ago because they've been using AI for results. The direct AI results are frequently wrong. The thing with searches is that you have to already be knowledgable about the search to identify the errors. If you search for a lot of topics where the answer...

There's a hypothetical scenario where AI is capable of actual creativity, but it's a very different design than LLMs and requires the Get Rich Quick folks to fund a lot of complex science - an actual deep, multi-decade study on how human creativity works across scores of cultures, plus...

I have no use for fast food regurgitate art, and a search engine that can be wrong is worse than what we had in the 90s. AI literally cannot produce anything I don't already have access to.

Clearly they meant "proceeding". ;p

Glad to see them use a variety of styles. Gives a wider audience a chance to find art they love.

Enjoying satire is not a less legitimate thing than enjoying awkward rules. Lines can be crossed, but the world cannot be only lines.

I am much more inclined to think that WotC's D&D folks just don't share, understand, or prioritize the perspectives of the fans who find things like the gnome cartoon to be a personal dig. Professionals who dwell on grudges against their audience tend to burn out very publicly fairly quickly...

I personally loved the gnome shorts. "I have a lair!" is something I've repeated enough that it's probably why I have lair mechanics in the works. I am also currently playing a gnome in Pathfinder Society games. Humor doesn't always land with everyone, but I never got the impression that the...

The Pinkertons are not the law, they're mercenaries.

You want to have a mix of ages (and other perspectives). Even the most well-read 20-something is going to be lacking in depth and experience. A 20-something might know what's popular on TikTok but someone who has been designing for longer than they've been alive is going to run circles around...

D&D with room for ambition would look a lot more like the TSR days, with people coming up with crazy new settings with tons of material and minis and wacky sideprojects like DL Fifth Age or Dragon Dice. The money (for employees) just isn't there.

It's handy for folks who aren't deeply familiar with the material (common with organized play) and/or who don't have the experience or energy needed for spontaneous description. I've been building up skills, experience, and confidence for decades, so I have no use for it, but I see why it's...