Yeah, especially when the holodeck goes all haywire and murdery afterwards

Which means the show was 40 years ahead of its time on that one. Incredible.

Holodeck settings and scenarios are open source, and it's a big galaxy to pull from.

But they aren't perfect, as the Bynars showed. Without extra processing, a very detailed Minuet turns into just another holodeck character.

(Sad Riker trombone sounds)

Yeah I also used to laugh a lot when they used those isolinear chips for something they were totally not intended for. Just by rearranging and tapping a few things. As an embedded systems engineer it made no sense to me. In the systems I designed at the time every component had one specific purpose. Sometimes I would get clever and use one component in several different ways to reduce the BOM. Or have a component do double duty, but then it was designed for that (like 4 gates in a single package). The idea you could take out a component, do some magic to it, and suddenly it would do something completely different was just so wrong it was funny.

These days everything is made with whole ass Linux stacks. Like full system on a chip, multiple gigabytes of RAM, tons of storage, often even network access. I recently repaired the door on my dishwasher and the little board that opened the door had a full on ARM core on it. I think it is more powerful than many of the PCs I had in the 90s. I myself have a clock I made using a dual core ESP32 and a simple CO2 particle count sensor for my homeassistant with an ESP8266. With ESP Home flashed it can do so many things using a very small and simple script, with easy OTA updates.

Now the idea of a system built from very powerful subsystems isn't so far fetched. Just make sure it has access to whatever LAN or CAN they have in the future and it will be able to do it. It might even have some kind of self programming feature, where it configures itself automatically if you kinda sorta get it headed in the right direction.

And I know for a fact they do vibe coding in the future. The holodeck must be vibe coded. Nobody really knows how it works, it breaks all the time. The most important part, the safety protocols are more often offline than online. To quote the great Jack O'Neill: You'd assume a failsafe would be somewhat safe from failing. But no, it fails all the time and somehow the system isn't designed to simply turn fully off when the safety doesn't work. You'd think it's compatible with other systems they have, but somehow it's not. Smells like vibe coding to me.

I can't wait for AI models to advance that they can be used for video games and VR games. Like for crafting new equipment visuals or creating new levels or challenges. Generating 3D assets and characters through prompt like you do images should already be possible locally with a fast GPU. And long term it should be possible to be able to generate complete video games at least with specific genres (shooter, RPG etc) and then refine them. Obviously hardware and software isn't there yet / too expensive. But it could completely revolutionize and change the gaming world.

To rephrase another quote I feel relatable:

"What haunts me is that I am just not good enough in my craft for so many people to be worse."

We've offloaded anything remotely creative to this giant ball of data called AI, and turned most people into robots.

You're kidding, I know. I've done exactly that when I had trouble with planning through an idea.

Dear LLM, what are other people prompting??!

Which one is it?

Something about Romulans?

It made your brAIn hurt.

They're putting AI in everything!