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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)

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.

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.

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"

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 🤷‍♂️)