Dynamically generated code is not something new. It's not as common as dynamically generated content, but it has been there for a good while.
What is new is AI starting doing it, since dynamically generating code and interfaces implies a totally different thought process than producing code from start to end and running it afterwards.
The first model that attempts this is Claude Sonnet 4.5 from Anthropic—through its Imagine feature which was available for a limited time for their Max subscribers—but I'm sure others will try to push this limit sooner or later.
My curiosity was stirred about this after hearing it mentioned in a YT podcast, and wanted to check this out. Since I am not a Max subscriber and was too late anyway, I won't be able to play with it to see how useful it can be at this point, or if it was only a playful experiment for now.
But with models being able to focus longer and longer on specific tasks or projects (looks like Sonnet 4.5 can do it for 32 hours straight, I heard in a presentation video on Reddit which I can't find anymore), I wonder how things will look in the near future...
Would you be surprised if in a few short years we would have games that are fully generated in real time by AI and you would not go through the same maps, monsters, routines and landscape in your adventures, even if you start over the game? I'm pretty sure that before that, interactions with NPCs and quests would be handled by AI instead of following a script.
Games will become more and more immersive, followed by the metaverse, and yeah, even if people stopped talking about that for now, it's still coming.
Since the Matrix red pilled us, some people are already wondering if we live in the Matrix. I don't believe we do yet, but if we don't, looks like sooner rather than later many of us might voluntarily choose to, especially if they won't have other things to do.
It is interesting to see how some exceptional sci-fi movies seem kind of prophetic many years later. I don't think it's that. They show potential futures modeled by our vivid imagination. Some of those potential futures are then chosen by history makers to happen, or strongly influence their views about the future and what could be possible. Unfortunately, most if not all history makers are or become cynics as they grow older and more powerful, interested in increasing their control, so we shouldn't expect many utopian elements in the future. But who knows? Star Trek had a bunch of utopian elements to it, and enough of them came true or are in the process of becoming real. Maybe it's not settled what kind of a future we'll have, whether it will be mostly utopian or dystopian. AI will be a determining factor in how the future is shaped up.
What do you think? How will things turn out?