Reddit search is way better. It even has operators for the search, and things like flairs that you can search by.

Sounds like the issue was less intelligence-gathing issues, and more just complete and total incompetence, and a complete lack of leadership. This article makes it sound like military members were basically just paid to browse social media.

See the video, but not really.

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A tiny bit for the initial winch, but most of the altitude gain is just air currents.

A tagging-based social media is an interesting idea, but for something as discussion-focused as Lemmy, I don't think it'd be a good fit as a primary algorithm/sorting system. Individual communities are just too different, and often serve different purposes. For example, while political memes and non-credible defense share a lot of content, one is a more serious and focused on governments and systems, the other is absurd and comedic and focused on militaries and their equipment. Their comment sections need/have entirely seperatre rules and shouldn't be mixed. That said, a more in-depth tagging system would be handy for searchability and browsing.

Like if you had modules and plugins that can work like legos to make a very simple game. AI can help get your initial game wired up.

This is basically how modern development tools (I.E. the Unity Editor) work - they let you import all the resources then provide a framework for connecting it all together.

That said, this process of connecting everything is also one of the parts AI is actually worst at. As AI doesn't understand context or logic, it can't fit things together in a complex or meaningful way, nonetheless a unique way. Its for the same reason AI is bad at large/complex programming tasks (like game development). AI can make passable (albiet not great) individual art assets, but when you need to fit them together in logical ways, things start to fall apart. The same problem applies to testing. Tests where an agent effectively hits random buttons aren't very useful, since they're too inefficient. You need logical, structured and/directed testing, which AI can't meaningfully do.

Basically, for easy, boilerplate stuff, its going to be largely done by the engine, or assets you import. Anything else is too complex or too important for AI.

As is, theres no sign things will go that way quickly. The increase in larger mods is more a product of increased funding and increased (legal) support from publishers. Things like Roblox's microtransactions make it very profitable, even if a lot of time or money is spent in development. For more general game development, most of it hasn't changed in about a decade, and I don't see AI affecting much. AI can't reliably create good results in any field, nonetheless combining them. Basically, making any large project just costs too much to give away for free.

So, basically you're describing open source, public domain game development (rather than just an open source engine like Godot) by the sound of it. This does happen, games like Luanti or Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, but very rarely. Unlike mods, which tend to be small, quick-and-dirty projects, game development is usually much larger in scope and more difficult. It's normal for the process to take years of work from a collective of skilled developers and artists. That amount of work is usually just too much for someone to willingly give away for free.