I'm guessing "Quantum" was the time travel reference?
At any rate, AI Based game generation IS indeed a thing, I'm surprised you considered it too ridiculous to be true, given your tech knowledge dwarves that of everyone else in the community, even that of me and
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Gleeok
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In fact, this technology has been around so long that there are actually defunct auto-game generators that are now considered obselete, so it is far from new:
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Slige
Now, mind you, it is NEVER
optimal, even the best ones need actual developers to refine what they generate, otherwise the design isn't much more than simply playable. So "never work on your own quests again" may have been a bit much, but still.....