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uchikoshi's comments here will be read about ai specifically but they really should be considered in the context of what this industry squeeze is doing to labour and who the winners/losers of indie sustainability in 2026 are

This is wild speculation on my part, but I feel like uchikoshi was either directly told by or felt that the publisher wanted him to use genai to cut costs, but he knew that if he did so it would directly hurt his sales, and so he was left with no good options.

yeah could be i dont really have any window on that specifically, the thing i find interesting is the framing of "cut development time, not staff" because of course those are the same thing it's all labour

Yeah. "Progress" in just about any given industry--certainly software development--is largely measured in a reduction in labor hours to accomplish any given task.

if only marx had managed to predict this