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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.

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!

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

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

I'm glad for you, as I said, it's a luxury now. All my colleagues in AAA and mobile are using it extensively

I'm in AAA and I've avoided using it so far

The key is "so far", and belive me, I would 100% go back to a pre-AI world

What stops you from doing so? Can't be the "productivity gains", I have yet to see an example in production where its context window was actually big enough to get a correct answer AND get to that answer before a human does (or could have)

The other day I managed to fix a bug in a store plugin just by describing the issue, it pointed me at the right function and even added breakpoints, in third party code that would have taken me hours to learn

I don't find that a compelling example. Almost all my career has been working on legacy codebases with none of the original authors working on them, so I've been doing that kind of thing for years without AI assistance.

I've personally never had access to a tool that could search publicly released code and error reports to return line references and a way to fix a bug in that code that many other users have surely experienced before. How could we live without genAI?