I might make a future post about how much I struggled to get my game out there and the non-game dev stuff that slowed me down (like losing my job because our company decided to dismiss 50-60% of its work force).
My promise to the players: no vibe coding, no AI art, no AI scripts, no AI music, no AI voices.
My game is called The Milgram Experiment
Yeah, I company decided to dismiss half the staff and replace us with AI.
What did you do that your work can be replaced by AI?
Don’t think it matters. They’ll replace manual laborers with AI if need be. It’s just a way to juice the numbers to keep the shareholders happy. “Oh we replaced a bunch of people with AI so we now get more done with less costs”. What happens to productivity for real? Next quarter’s problem.
Well about 6 months ago they started getting weird about AI and kind of making us use it more and more and as much as we can.
We also had to write down what task each of us do and how it can be improved by AI. Then a month or two ago they decided to dismiss around 50 or 60% of the company. The rest just have to pick up the slack and doing even more work with AI, but what I hear from my colleagues that are left, they have to work longer hours and it’s not easier for them. Sure AI makes some tasks easier, but you have to baby sit it so much.
I also heard a rumor that they might be preparing for a sale at the end of the year, so this might be a way to artificially pump the stock price and let the next sucker deal with it.
Yeah, I’m going to have some doubts about the “AI replaced me” part. My company works heavily with AI now and no one has lost their job. What their job was is EXTREMELY important here. Did they make birdhouses at a financial firm?
Nevermind. I found him: https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/woodland-hills/theseus-games-inc https://www.themarque.com/profile/justin-berenbaum His LinkedIn connects Thesus Games with Xsolla.
Yeah, he wasn’t “replaced by AI”.
NOTE: If you’re thinking that maybe it is just a dev working for Thesus Games, you can check the comment history on that account like: https://lemmy.world/comment/24338752 Name changes have to go through leadership meaning this was Justin speaking.
There are definitely leaders who think they can just make people use AI and lay off a bunch or suddenly make billions with the same workforce. A friend of mine works at a company where the owner said that he expects productivity go up 3x now that everyone is forced to use AI. Not a joke or a one-off remark either, it’s been the subject of monthly meetings for like a year or more. Don’t think the 3x increase in productivity has materialized yet lol
Yeah and also important to note, we as workers don’t get to do less work. We are just expected to be more productive and do more work for the same time. AI hasn’t really been beneficial.
Hahha dude! That’s not me :D This is company registered in the US it has nothing to do with games. My IRL job had nothing to do with game dev. Theseus Games is just my game dev studio and it operates out of the EU. I’m not responsible for every company in the world that has the same name
The fact that all of your posts have been involved in sleazy ad campaigns doesn’t give any legitimacy to this one. It’s just digital begging using a false AI sob story.
Well I’m happy that you kept your job and stability but I mean have you seen the news lately?
Sooo soo many lay offs. Just because it hasn’t happened to you it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen everywhere else. I can find you 10 stories of companies doing mass lay offs. And that’s just the companies we have heard of like Microsoft, EA and so on… there are thousands more.
And what did you actually do?
Software company, my dude