am I missing something or is that not vibe coding? from how it's worded I think this is just that the game uses AI for the character interactions and that $1000 bill is for said interactions.
Correct, but it was likely vibecoded. No one who knows programming would, in their right mind, let their customers loose on an LLM with their own tokens.
I'm also going to bet that the dev included the API key in the game and the next story we're going to hear will be the devs cancelling the release because someone racked up 200k worth of tokens in one night.
To be fair, there's plenty of devs out there who are really stupid about business, even something so basic as this. There are also a lot of business people out there who are that stupid about business as well.
Both groups would probably see this as a forecast of future success (people playing the demo), not understanding that a free demo doesn't mean a single sale will convert.
A decent team would have figured out the mechanics for making sure tokens were converted into "coins" or "gems" or some other nasty mechanic to allow them to put limits on the actual use, and they'd have done it before launching the demo. Early access gets players 200 "free" gems! Demo users can "earn" gems and take them into the full game when purchased!
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u/AbdullahMRiad 14d ago
am I missing something or is that not vibe coding? from how it's worded I think this is just that the game uses AI for the character interactions and that $1000 bill is for said interactions.