Game developers from studios including CCP Games, Facepunch, Failbetter, and others share candid views on AI coding tools. Proponents highlight benefits for codebase navigation, scripting, prototyping, and learning, with CCP noting that non-production scripting tasks that took half a day now take minutes. Critics raise concerns about hallucinations, poor code architecture, technical debt, loss of developer understanding, and the time spent verifying AI output often exceeding the time saved. Most agree AI works best in a supporting role for experienced developers, while widespread adoption in game development faces barriers around context window limitations and the complexity of large, proprietary codebases.
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