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"I will not touch anything with ai-generated code" is going to mean, in pretty short order, "I will not touch software" this is just functionally what software development is now and it's only going to accelerate from here

there's an enormous amount of poorly vibe-coded slop out there and unfortunately that is also going to accelerate but minus some individual passion projects almost nothing is written entirely by hand these days

yeah, I think this is a good place to draw the line - replacing human artists with the machine is bad but the ship has one hundred percent sailed on the code side

another piece of this for gaming specifically is that games are full of weird-ass corner cases and these tools have gotten shockingly better at diagnosing those - I work in a large (non-gaming) codebase and recently I have been able to hand it a bug report and say "diagnose and fix this" and it will

because is/ought posting is in fine form on bluesky today, a pop quiz: as someone who works in software and had what seemed to be ironclad job security only a couple of years ago, do you think I want anything in this thread to be true

I’m hanging on as long as I can and if I get laid off I’m probably leaving the field entirely

I don’t know what I would do instead sadly. Unless I happen to be able to retire in which case I will do that. What would you do if you left the field?

came to ask the same thing

I had planned on working with the disabled full time but, ironically, have had to postpone retirement at least in part because of AI. Very hard for me to guess how this plays out. The models still collapse when trained on their own output and newbies using them don’t develop critical skills.

LLM based coding tools are still really hard to use efficiently and effectively. It's really easy to let the scope and therefore the agent's context grow to a point where you're burning a ton of tokens for rapidly deteriorating results. The solution is strong SW development discipline.