I am confident that this will go poorly for them and will be keeping a supply of popcorn handy.
Unfortunately, it’ll likely go worse for the developers. From my connections, I’ve heard most AI adoptions go something like this:
- Company fires large amount of developers to “save cost” and encourrage the current developers to use the AI.
- The remaining developers are somewhat enthusiastic about using the AI, they spend extra time to try to learn it.
- The promise of AI slowly falls apart. Great at regenerating a copyright-washed GPL code, which would have created problems with licensing, otherwise is a barely usable garbage that has issues with following instructions. Usage starts to fall.
- The developers that stop using it receive some form of disciplinary action for not using up their token quota management thought would be a target use. Even less developers are working on the thing.
- The remaining skeleton crew writes python scripts to consume the LLM tokens once the novelty of Medieval English documentation wears off, also people now working overtime and multiple jobs (e.g. graphic design) to make up for the lost manpower, many delete their social media apps as the product they make is so garbage now they have to deal with constant death threats.
- The company loses revenue, tries to blame millenial trends in internal communications. Sometimes they realize the crap they did, then make a dev team in India or similar country with cheap intellectual labor.
Fuck em. Hopefully the devs they fire go off to make their own genuinely good gamea at a reasonable price and they get rich doing it!
Considering how much revenue King brings, the crash will be glorious.
Good. It’s soul crushing to think that actual humans deliberately made the crap in that app.
Normally I’m not a fan of AI slop, but it feels like a perfect fit here
King? Or Microsoft?
Good point. This is a pilot program for Microsoft. All negative press gets associated with King. Even the Wikipedia shows “Activision” as the parent company as if to buffer negative news from Microsoft.
Yes
I thought those were generated automatically/procedurally already lol
Same. As much as it sucks, how are 200 people involved in candy crush?
Hopefully the company also creates "A. I. " to play its games as well.
Already happening.
Best of luck. Cheers.
There are still human there?!
Only in a biological sense. Their sold their souls a long time ago.
That tracks, it’s already slopware.
I don’t see any way this can go wrong. And even if it does, it’s dead easy to rehire talent. /s
They’re getting candy CRUSHED
While most companies replacing employees with AI usually ends in failure for the company, I believe AI will be able to make games like this just as effectively, if not more.
“If we can just get rid of all the humans, I’ll have a machine that prints me free money!”
This is all that the AI push is about. It really is that stupid. Nobody is going to ever pay for AI if they aren’t employed anymore.
Cozy Match3 is much much awesomer
