It’s a fair question. I think out of the two proposed rules: enforce no AI generated code, and enforce human reviews, enforcing human reviews is actually more feasible, and in fact most companies already do that. Pull requests need human reviewers to approve them.

It’s harder to enforce no AI generated code. A developer can always, at the very least, Google a problem they are having on their phone and retype the code from the AI answer into their work computer.

How do you enforce code is not AI generated? I don’t see how one is more easily enforceable than the other.

I hope you mean when he bought it, not when he announced it. He announces a lot of things all the time which never happen.

Another important factor, I agree. Procedural generation and starting at the beginning in each play through would both be requirements to calling something a Roguelike to me.

And they are also called Roguelikes today. Positive examples don’t reinforce a hypothesis though.

When I look at universally acclaimed rouglikes, I see Balatro, The Binding of Isaac, Slay the Spire, FTL, Noita. Of which none fit your definition. Meanwhile your definition would fit something like the original Pokemon games, or even chess.

I can see what you are going for, but there must be more to it. To me an important element of a roguelike is that every playthrough starts from the beginning.

But Roguelikes don’t have progression. Of course nowadays many Roguelites are called Roguelikes for simplicity so it’s not like you can’t have progression, but it’s weird to call something a Roguelike because it has progression, when the entire point of a Roguelike is that it doesn’t.

They didn’t though, despite countless articles claiming so. The only change was moving it from the foreword of their Code of Conduct to the closing statement. Sure, you can argue all day if the foreword or closing statement is “more impactful”, but it was never removed.

You can see it yourself right here: https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of-conduct/default.aspx

To be clear, Google is an evil company who never abided by that slogan. But it’s just plain untrue that they removed it.