ccording to a new report by Bloomberg, developers on the game were told to implement an “AI-first” production model using Anthropic’s Claude AI models. The team is not to use any more “hand-written code,” and even artists are being pushed to use the technology that has become a punching bag among actual players. The director of the unannounced game reportedly told developers that all art should be “generated with full AI workflows.”
No handwritten code allowed is laughably stupid. This decision was made by someone who doesn’t understand code or llms.
AI can for sure be a useful tool in development - but forcing everyone to use just the one tool and removing developer agency is going to be a shitshow. You can absloutely make slop code usable and stable - you could make dreamweaver code or VS’s autogenerated C# usable too - but it’s not a magically quick process. Given the goal here is speed, this ill wind doth blow due trainwreck…
Not only that. LLMs have serious flaws like are much more costly than hand written code, are much more prone to errors, cant be reviewed or audited, and rarely employs the most efficient architectures. On top of that, execs think the memory is absolute and dont realize the more context you feed it, the more it has to guess.
They’re using AI as the main development tool by the sound of it, not a supplementary tool. If they’re anything like the AI ads I have seen lately it will look like shit. I have no trust that this will create a cohesive product.
This is going to be a dumpster fire and I can’t wait to sit and watch it burn
And simehow it will be Valve’s fault, according to Tim-boy
No handwritten code allowed is laughably stupid. This decision was made by someone who doesn’t understand code or llms.
Sweet, so if someone gets a copy of the source code then it is public domain as the output of AI is not copyrightable under current US case law.
Wouldn’t that mean the compiled game is also not copyrightable?
Do you think so? Most big companies require developers to use Ai.
Edit: I don’t understand why my question is downvoted.
AI can for sure be a useful tool in development - but forcing everyone to use just the one tool and removing developer agency is going to be a shitshow. You can absloutely make slop code usable and stable - you could make dreamweaver code or VS’s autogenerated C# usable too - but it’s not a magically quick process. Given the goal here is speed, this ill wind doth blow due trainwreck…
Not only that. LLMs have serious flaws like are much more costly than hand written code, are much more prone to errors, cant be reviewed or audited, and rarely employs the most efficient architectures. On top of that, execs think the memory is absolute and dont realize the more context you feed it, the more it has to guess.
LLM-only code is going to be terrible.
They’re using AI as the main development tool by the sound of it, not a supplementary tool. If they’re anything like the AI ads I have seen lately it will look like shit. I have no trust that this will create a cohesive product.