Why is S&box so pro AI

I found this awesome engine, but I feel like because I don't use AI I don't belong here.  Whenever I hop on the discord it seems they are just talk9ing about how awesome AI is and how stupid people are for not using it. 

I really don't care if anyone uses it, but I just don't want to use it.

Should I find a new engine?

Are you asking for a recommendation in a roundabout way? At best there are limitation driven game engines that probably have closely knit communities. I would assume the people using those want to avoid AI.

If you want something more modern and robust you probably don't have any options. Unreal and Unity both have official MCP server integration in their editor. Godot is probably the only other well known engine that doesn't have "official" integration, but there are multiple community addons for it on github; the leading one has 6k+ stars and hundreds of forks.

following your logic, you should give up on game development and get into landscaping. The wider game dev space talk about and uses AI just like this community. There exists people and groups that dont use ai but those communities are getting smaller.

if you making your engine choice off what the community talks about makes you pretty shallow imo. Im saying tis as someone who doesnt use AI with a large backlog of vods to prove it. 

Fuck Ai if i could snap it away i could but being upset or whatever when the sbox community talks about it is out of touch with what everyone else in the industry talks about.

The whole world is moving towards AI. Muh precious vidya is not exempt from this no matter how many luddites moan

You don't have to use it if you don't want to. I don't.

I think it's a great technology if you use it with good intentions. But I think the heart of anti AI is people want to experience games built by other humans with their experiences embedded within the game.  Whether that's lore or the way something sounds or what something looks like or how something feels etc. If you use it too much or without intention, the game just becomes soulless imo

Yeah, this is it for me. I can enjoy a lot of RPGMaker games knowing that it is a codeless engine and they didn't make any of the game's structures but AI still seems to be unable to create something passionate-feeling on its own. Probably because, well, it is not passionate.

FYI there are MCP server options for RPG maker. Just Google it to see. If you don't know what that is, basically its a gateway that lets AI agents communicate directly with it and implement things for you on it. Even without MCP servers or CLI or whatever the AIs are able to read computer screens, understand UIs and click for you.
Nothing is safe from AI right now. There are even tools for Blender (the animation software) that will let AI agents animate and model for you. Have you seen those short videos where low poly anime girls tell you how to build bridges or other stuff? Those are literally just AI using Blender. People currently have no idea how widespread it is right now. Everything online can be AI. Nothing is safe.

I agree sudintlink! Games or well... any great things are just made or built with passion and love (but maybe in not that order ;))  :D imo at least :3

Just make good games. Who cares how you do it. 

It will also reflect negative if you replace humans to do so. 
 
Navigate the waters carefully :)

I don't care about the AI. It's the community I'm complaining about. I don't give a shit what other people do with AI, but when you insult me for not using it I have a problem.  I feel like I'm being pushed towards it in this community.  I have since learned that the discord and a lot of people at Facepunch are just toxic and unhelpful.  So yea I'll just try to keep to myself and not get help from the community.

I feel like not using AI atleast for some things is like writing a book with a quill, like sure its cool but you're making it unnecessarily harder for yourself imo. Making a good game still requires creativity and understanding of what makes a good experience, and that's where AI will forever fall short. It is a tool, not a magic wand.
If you still don't want to use it for whatever reason, all the power to you bro.

But i do feel you about the toxic community, its why i'm no longer opening the sbox discord, and its sad that facepunch isn't doing anything about this gatekeeping ahh community
my advice; stick to the forums