The Future of AI-Assisted Craftsmanship
The workflow shift that AI watermarking could accelerate.
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The workflow shift that AI watermarking could accelerate.
VCs still believe in games. They just no longer believe most game studios fit the venture model.
Why founders struggle to scale when they finally have the opportunity of a lifetime?

I moved five years of notes out of Roam, then mostly stopped typing. Here's what happened.
The venture firms that thrive in the next decade may not be the ones with the most capital, but the ones that provide something AI cannot.
The real advantage of AI for game founders is not building faster. It is finding the pivot before you burn the runway.
The Finnish games industry did not decline because mobile became impossible. It declined because the market started rewarding a different kind of company.
The App Store model still works. But a parallel model is emerging where you build software only for yourself.
AI does the math. Humans do the judging. A breakdown of the three modes of level design.

Sharing the behind-the-scenes on how I utilized Claude Code to publish the book.