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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)

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Ricky Haggett

@rickyhaggett.bsky.social

14 June

I'm one of the 'not many' coders who are not using AI (do you have a source for this assertion?) and we're doing just fine without it thanks.

Giuseppe Navarria

@techdesign.rocks

Nope totally anecdotal from just industry friends, I genuinely wish you all the best and for it to continue, no sarcasm

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Ricky Haggett

@rickyhaggett.bsky.social

14 June

Cheers! I have several reasons that I don't think using AI is a good idea (beyond ethical reasons), but one that's maybe not obvious is that I'm a game designer whose medium is code: for me the act of writing code is inseparable from thinking about the game in detail, deciding what to do next, and..

Ricky Haggett

@rickyhaggett.bsky.social

14 June

..having a good understanding of the technical, design, production implications of those decisions. Abdicating responsibility for the code to an AI agent would give me a much blurrier view of where things are at.