You know that N people can now point a webcam onto their boards and have a multi modal LLM understand everyone’s board state now, right? Literally zero programming involved, you just have to point a camera at the damn thing and maybe write some glue code.
If you’re a board game player then you are more than capable of imagining possibilities well beyond this.
The parent comment's point isn't that we can't do these things, or that these things are difficult; it's that we don't want to do them. They aren't beneficial.
If you’re a board game player then you are more than capable of imagining possibilities well beyond this.