I hate AI with my whole heart but, tbh, I don't think you can completely escape AI, specially in gamedev.
VSCode, any game engine, even this god forsaken site has AI generated code to some degree.
It's the same as buying new clothes. You cannot separate that from slave labor or unethically sourced +
I use language models to develop Ren'Py, and have since Github copilot came out in beta in 2021. Before that I've used other tools (code completion, etc.)
I don't vibe code Ren'Py, though - that's not something you do if you want a project you can maintain.
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