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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)

absolute bullshit thing to say dude. it literally does not do that

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

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

Not using it for coding is a luxury, if you can run a business without it more power to you, we have a very finite amount of time/budget

you're righter than you think about one thing: your company has an extremely finite amount of time

businesses were famously impossible to run just a few years ago

My whole team doesn't use it. It's not that hard.

"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 was of the same opinion in early 2025, a lifetime ago