Why I Doubt We Will Ever See a Reliable Treasure Hunt Engine in Production

The Problem We Were Actually Solving I still remember the day our team was tasked with designing a treasure hunt engine for our company's new online game. The idea was simple: create a system that could generate puzzles and challenges for players to solve, with the ultimate goal of finding a virtual treasure. Sounds fun, but as an engineer who has dealt with the dark side of AI hype, I knew this was going to be a challenging task.