Most People Dont Have A Nickname

2025 edit: for context, this mod was created and release when gpt 3.5 was the current state of the art, so it was much more impressive to me at the time that I was able to ask it to make a rimworld mod and it was 99% able to despite me not giving it any help at all in regards to how rimworld mods actually work or what it would actually need to edit


===== THIS MOD WAS 95% GENERATED BY AN AI, UNIRONICALLY =====


Most people don't go by a nickname. This mod adds a slider to it's mod settings where you can set what % of people will just go by their first name rather than by a nickname.

Details on the AI thing below;

A small issue I had with Rimworld was that nearly EVERYONE has a nickname. This bothered me in a pedantic way so I always sort of wanted to make a mod for this but it was always too much effort for such a small thing. But I was playing around with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot when I heard other say people were using it to generate code and well...

Let's say that 95% of this mod was not made by me. (The other 5% was due to all the data the mod trained on being from 2021 and prior, meaning some things changed under the hood in the rimworld DLLs that it didn't know about. Cleaning this up lead to the code the AI generated working perfectly with VERY minimal tweaking.)

It's kinda crazy how well it worked. Legit a tiny bit worried about my career now, but maybe I can switch gears to "AI magician" instead of software engineer...


Github with source code and more methodology: https://github.com/goudekid/MostPeopleDontHaveANicknameRimworldMod