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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.

Ev Amitay

@evyatron.bsky.social

Same here. Been programming since forever, over a decade in games. I see absolutely no need for it - creating worse code faster is absolutely not my goal.

@rickyhaggett.bsky.social

My local bubble of London friends is mostly people in AAA, I'm now one of the few indie devs I know, my circle is a mix of people going from "I hate it but they're making me use it" to "I hate it but I must admit it works" to "I'm never going back to code without it"

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Ricky Haggett

It'll certainly be interesting to read the post-mortems of the games which were developed with AI-written code from the start.

Yes, at the moment it's all grifters and sensationalist people bragging they made an MMO in two days, and it's impossible to see steak from smoke

Ev Amitay

@evyatron.bsky.social

My circle is UK/EU AAs and indies and there are some who use it, but they're the minority. "Everybody else uses it to ship games 5x faster" is also quite factitious I'd argue - if that was the case we'd see AAAs being released left right and centre (maybe they're "just around the corner" but 🤷‍♂️)

Fair enough, my comment was factitious, personally with the pressure of funds/payroll/investors I feel the need to give it a go, and making games is hard enough, that's why the damned if you do/don't spirit, I understand the team at Spryfox

Ev Amitay

@evyatron.bsky.social

And to be clear I know that it "works" to some extent. I'm sure I'm writing a lot of boilerplate I could generate. But, for me, writing that boilerplate - writing those for loops for the 50th time - is simply not something to automate away. It's part of my craft and I genuinely love it.