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Giuseppe Navarria
@techdesign.rocks

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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Bananicorn
@bananicorn.com

One of the "not many" checking in. Forced to use it at work, where it takes all joy out of it and makes my work faster, but I can rarely answer any questions about a feature a week later, even though I test and manually vet the output before committing. Never going to use it for any of my games.

Giuseppe Navarria
@techdesign.rocks

Yep that's my feeling about it too, and the same of most of my industry friends (with some outliers that I guess just don't want to codemuch anymore or are clicking with it more), at the moment it's a mix of FOMO and real improvements but difficult to quantify

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Bananicorn
@bananicorn.com

Oh the FOMO is INTENSE in software dev (I don't work in games), though I'm not quite getting it: If the tech makes everything so easy, then I could learn at any point and not be at a disadvantage. Business folks love that shit because it's a temporary speed boost with unknown future consequences...