"If A Computer Does All The Hard Work, What's The Point?" - Dev Behind Sega Emulator BlastEm Blasts "AI Slop" Projects
"BlastEm today is made up of 100% artisanal AI-free code". The arrival of GenAI coding tools has sparked an explosion of AI-assisted projects in the retro gaming space, including decomps, recomps , translations , and more. While the tools can drastically speed up development, the…