The founder, Wouter, has created or helped design 10 programming languages. Voxile is built in his newest language: Lobster. Wouter has been a major contributor to WASM and LLVM while also inventing flatbuffers. He’s worked at Crytek, Gearbox and Google among many other places. I’ve never seen anything like Voxile.

One EGG studio is wiring LLM’s to npc’s in a hilarious way. We’ll be curious to see everyone’s feedback when they make a playable available.

However, I’ll say that as a result of their AI integration they are also doing way more human writing in the form of prompts and other procedural elements than if they just used old fashioned dialog trees.

I think AI can only be used as an enhancement in certain specific and controlled ways.

One mistake I see a lot right now is the assumption that you can delegate design and creative direction to AI. I think that generally yields slop. In fact I think the Creative Director/design role at a game studio may be the hardest digital job for an AI to replace. I had the opportunity to express that idea to Sam Altman once and he did refute it.

I was just having some fun with the John Wick poster. I too have heard that Keanu is a good, honest human who works hard.

PG does say he actually looks for “naughty” founders as one of the key filtering traits. I link this essay in my post.

But you still have to be ethical and do what you say or it won’t be possible to grow your business long term.

The gamer in me wonders if the “ideal founder” can be described as “chaotic good”?

Well said!