AI Code rule

A topic by ravenshore created May 11, 2026 Views: 660 Replies: 19

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I've had this conversation in the Indie Dev community before and I know this will likely backfire, but I really don't see the point of setting rules for no AI generated code. AI code generation has been the standard in the professional dev community for over a year now and at best you will get some newbies that will comply, a few hard core folks that will write everything themselves and most others just say that didn't use AI, when they actually did. In this day and age and as someone that has over 15 years experience coding games by 'hand' rules like this just make zero sense. It's like people wanting to use Assembly because they consider C# to be cheating. Coding is a small part of the job of a developer and using tools to enhance or speed it up is no different than using any other tools.
I would love to see less of these rules and conditions out in the community, especially considering that they are typically not enforceable.

Thatdude149 days ago

so ur saying vibecoding isnt bad?

ravenshore149 days ago(-2)

Vibe coding was something silly and scary about a year ago. Even then it was a conversation mostly held by people that have never actually worked in software development professionally. Most of the risk with it was associated with junior devs or non-devs vibe-coding and committing crappy code. However that has not really been an issue in the professional world, because there are processes to prevent it and people (for the most part) are much more responsible. People do their own reviews and everything typically has to go through a PR process.

marshbirdstudios149 days ago

“AI code generation has been the standard in the professional dev community for over a year” I would really love to see a source on this claim.

ravenshore149 days ago(-1)

I've been working in Software Dev for a long time and have been managing different teams. I am also deeply involved in the community and work with many different organizations, teams and companies. There are 0 teams that don't use AI. 100% of them are fully integrated and every single developer uses it.

pythondeveloper148 days ago

Makes sense. I have a friend who knew people in big companies that relied on code(twitter{x}, google, apple.......) and he said all the coders from big companies use AI to assist them. And he said the people who are using AI are saying words against AI to prevent other people to use AI!

pythondeveloper148 days ago

but, we should respect coolmath game jam's hosts cause they made this jam.

pythondeveloper148 days ago

but I think originality should be supported, just as why handmade stuff is more expensive.

ravenshore148 days ago

100% agree for art and anything creative. Coding is a tool to get creative things done. It's like when you use Unity or UE5 and they have libraries that do stuff for you out of the box, it's no different. To people in the 80s Unity & C# will seem like magic...

pythondeveloper147 days ago

personally thinks code should also be creative. For example, you can have a game that redraw the UI every frame or have it stay there. While the both works, second one is better, but AI usually opt for the first one.

pythondeveloper147 days ago

I think this is about the market. Using AI to code is definitely easier, so AI code has more supply then human-coded code, so use Wealth of Nations(a book)'s theory, AI code will be cheaper. And because they want the more valuable thing, they want human-coded.

pythondeveloper147 days ago

Also, if you know the code is created by AI you have less respect and appreciation for it.

pythondeveloper147 days ago

Also, since coolmath games are mostly earning money from people that are not coders and the users of coolmath games hate AI(cause AI had and will replace many jobs and other reasons) so Coolmath game has the need to create a reputation of not using AI since this offer is public. Maybe they use AI in secret/private situations, I don't know and I don't care.

ravenshore147 days ago

Yeah, I get that, but it's not realistic. AI came and it's not going anywhere. Anyone that thinks someone will write manual code again after a few years has no knowledge of the industry. I think Jensen Huang (Nvidia's CEO) said it best - developer's job has always been about solving problems - everything else are tools. Like at some point people that knew how to manually write Regex were highly respected and needed, then people automated it and now nobody knows how to manually write regex and nobody will ever need to.

pythondeveloper147 days ago

but this jam is for today, but this reality maybe will change in a few years.

ravenshore147 days ago

The main point is that it's not something they can enforce, which means that most people will still use AI, so it will only push the small percentage of people that are honest and willing to comply. For AI art you can still tell most of the time, for code - there is no way.

pythondeveloper146 days ago

there is a few folks accusing me falsely of using AI generated content for an entire project!

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ravenshore149 days ago

That's what I thought, because the definition is vague, but the organizer specifically clarified in another post.

TromboneMaster2207Submitted149 days ago

"The no AI-generated content is to prevent any AI-generated assets within the game including art, writing, sound, and code." /jam/coolmath-game-jam-2026/topic/6319849/clarification-on-no-ai-... this is the post they talk about. They say no AI code.

pythondeveloper147 days ago

guys, if you want to go in a game jam that allows and encourages AI uses go to /jam/token-jam-1

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AI Code rule