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Indie devs are in a tough spot: don't use AI, and watch everyone else ship games x5 faster than you or use it and be damned. I don't think there are many coders left that are not using AI agents for coding right now, it's just that effective (been coding games for 28 years, professionally for 20)

Like, proof required for the "ship 5x faster than you" thing pls.

it would also be much easier and faster to make a game if i plagiarized a lotta shit also

This is all that people never used and don't know these systems have to say, it doesn't work that way, if you think all it does is scan the web and copy stuff you are talking with no idea of reality

True, and it doesn't scale as much as people think it does but I'm definitely way, way faster on my own work, and we did tools that would have taken days in hours

oh you're actively feeding the beast huh! actively part of the problem!

"After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%--AI tooling slowed developers down." arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 RIP to your grandma but I'm different

i’m still waiting to see one person use it to make more games than i did in 2012

I've seen people SAY they used some tool layer on top of it to spit out text-edited variations of other people's games and fuck that type "edit gorillas.bas" like the rest of us.