For the game devs ( specially targeting Steam releases) 
AI game dev is the new gold rush! 
Better get those agents running… AI providers are waiting 
And now this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuTclTare6k
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Great video!
I really agree with a lot of what you’re saying. I think we need to find a balance between taking advantage of AI and not losing the enjoyment of what we’ve been doing for years.
If you love programming, keep programming! If you enjoy 3D modeling, animation, design or making music, keep doing those things. Use AI wherever it helps, but don’t let it take away the parts of your work you actually enjoy.
I think that’s where the real problem starts. If we lose those things that make us get up in the morning excited to work on something new, try something crazy or just have fun creating, what’s the point? You can end up producing more and more while enjoying less and less. And eventually, I think that can lead to serious creative burnout.
Then there’s this ridiculous rat race to make the next Angry Birds or Flappy Bird. Thousands of clones, endless variations, everyone hoping their game will be the next big hit. And honestly, many of these games don’t even manage to offer those simple 10 minutes of fun you might want on a train or while taking a break from work.
And I think this goes way beyond games or AI. It’s how everything seems to work these days. Everything needs to be done yesterday. Everyone wants more, faster, cheaper. Bosses pushing people harder, clients saying “I can do that myself with AI now”, without realizing that once they’ve helped destroy the value of someone else’s work, their own job or business might be next.
There’s also the usual human greed and ambition behind all this. Everyone wants to be first, make the most money, beat the competition and grab as much as possible. We never seem to know when enough is enough. And I think this constant competition is exhausting, especially for creative people.
Personally, I love 3D modeling, animation, design, experimenting with lighting and materials… I’ve been doing these things for years and I still enjoy them. I also love programming, which I’ve been doing for a very long time. But these days I rely almost entirely on vibe coding for my software and game projects. And I absolutely love it! It lets me develop ideas that would previously have taken me ages.
Does that mean I want AI to do all my modeling, animation or creative work too? Not really. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends on what I’m doing and what I actually feel like working on. That’s the important part for me. I want to decide what I enjoy doing myself and where AI can help me.
AI is an amazing tool, no question about that. But with all this greed, competition and obsession with automating everything, I think we’re at risk of losing the enjoyment of doing things ourselves.
And YES!! I actually think AI is going to wipe us all out! Or, more accurately, we’re probably going to wipe ourselves out using AI. 
Not because AI is necessarily the problem, but because of what we humans tend to do with powerful tools when money, greed and competition get involved.
Anyway, I think the important thing is not how many games or projects you can release in a year, or how quickly you can make them. It’s whether you still enjoy making them.
Maybe I’ve gone a bit off topic here, but your video really got me thinking.
Great work! 
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Not my video 
I just shared it.
And hey you have a functional brain ( something that will most likely to be extinct in next decades)
Disclaimer: if you are easily offended do not read bellow this. All the typos and gramar mistakes are on purpose, AI can’t touch me 
I have no real reason or intentional pleasure of hurting anyone’s feelings. For real! You have been warned.
TLDR;
Personally as I’ve shared, I do not believe AI will kill “anyone” or even create real harm to “anyone” ( I got laid off because of it… that was the excuse ). It is just a matter of perceptions and human greed.
What I find funny in this " Apocalypse", is the lack of vision and level of human ignorance. AI won’t do “harm” to “anyone”. I often ask fellow “device devs” if they are aware there was no iOS and Android devs about 20 years ago, , or web devs, that there was no web developers 30"+ish".
AI will create jobs, will remove others. What should concern humanity is the level of ignorance and abstractions these systems bring to the table ( specially at government and quality public services level … yeah we “still” got them here in the EU 
).
IRL example. “Everyone” owns a car, but probably only 0.001% really knows whats under the hood and how to fix it. Meaning, no control over anything. If a car broke down most will probably end up paying whatever is needed to fix it. Competition will help bring those costs down but that can take years and might not even happen ( there is only two real competitors on devices and … hey I am using Chrome to write this post).
2xTLDR;
Well for those who know what they are doing and know how to fix a simple problem in a vehicle or washing machine ( just fixed mine with a 12$ replacement part, budgeted at 230$ fix from an “expert”) you’ll be fine. Be the experts! Do not feed the trolls and you’ll be fine. Hell?! I would say if we are greedy too we’ll be better then fine ( I am not a greedy person, just happy to be healthy enough to take care of my loved ones and provide).
Dumbass Bonus comment TLDR;
If you have your car, your washing machine, your vacuum cleaner, your toilet connected to your phone/app/Internet. Congrats sir. You are an idiot! 
Keep thinking! 
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So am I the only one who finds this amazing? 
Let the market fill and be littered with the crappiest slop possible. Let there be a million new shit games per day on Steam.
And suddenly any small not-AAA game with limited budget but great mechanics and complexity will shine like a bright star It will get up-voted just because the dev/s put real and hard effort into it. The trend is visible. People start complaining. People become hostile towards low effort profit extraction.
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Not at all—I’m not offended in the slightest! I often use GPT to proofread texts, especially when I’m writing in a language that isn’t my native; that’s one area where AI is a huge help. Or, you could just look at it as a Test that you—a “human”—have successfully passed!
As for the “apocalypse,” I never said AI would be the end of us. I suspect we’re more likely to bring about our own end—much as has happened throughout history.
You got it with your example: “Getting fired and having AI used as the excuse.” I’ve already heard of at least five other cases just like that, which only confirms that we’re heading toward this “transformation” that everyone seems so afraid of.
I’m completely on board with your “wisdom, competence, and knowledge” framework. Learning how to solve life’s problems is something that really ought to be taught in schools.
It ties back to what I mentioned in my post: we need to have genuine enthusiasm and passion for what we do—that’s the key to learning in a healthy way. It’s only “Chapter 1,” but you have to start somewhere! Just a couple of weeks ago, I had to replace my car’s side mirrors and a taillight—I’d managed to smash them up at the supermarket (Mercadona)! It was a really educational and fun process.
A society that’s capable and self-sufficient is, without a doubt, a strong society (though one has to wonder: do they even want us to be self-sufficient?).
I haven’t connected my washing machine to my phone yet, but I’m thinking of using Claude to link the BabylonJS forum to my fridge’s display—after all, you wouldn’t want to miss out on these profound, transcendental conversations, even while you’re busy making a sandwich!
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And now… this!
As someone that has been paying bills with game development for over a decade I can tell you that I do not believe this would be possible if I was starting now. I am toasted but I had a good run
Indies will be “starving” even more as game dev scene is taken by storm by “creatives” powered with AI.
Making game is now the game! - powered by AI obviously
I guess this is a normal step in this industry.
People/players ( or client users as we call it) see games as black boxes of fun. Game developers see it as boxes of fun technical challenges that create value.
In the past players/users were the clients and game developers were the industry makers. Well… now developers are the user clients too!
I am available for PM if someone wants to deeper discuss the industry, jobs and pretty much anything else. If you know anyone/need a solid SSE that gets things done ( with or without AI) let me know.
In the meantime I’ll be in the garage assembling stuff without AI because I love to do it
Kisses 
PS: do no forget to keep thinking… or else
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See, this makes you a treasure trove for insights and experience no AI can possibly hand you out!
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Will anyone pay me for this? 
Since I don’t think so, I’ll just keep rambling here and enjoy my life time while I can. 
PS: If this posts made you smile… I won! Have a great day!
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Welcome, everyone, to the “AI-whiplash” club…
Many days, I wake up with a thousand-yard stare, contemplating the immediate future.
Meanwhile, few days ago, a client tells me they’ve gone ahead and developed a full-blown web app for an event—a task that was supposed to be my responsibility—explaining that, well… “things are pretty rough, so we have to cut costs.”
I’m not kidding; today I’m just hanging out in my office, organizing my ESP32 boards and doing some soldering—something I usually do in my spare time. The smell of the solder is actually quite relaxing 
And in the meantime, while I’m mulling over the next mini-game to dive into, Dario Amorei has reached out, asking me to burn some tokens using my BabylonJS movies.
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The trolls need to eat!
This one is actually a good video ( TripoAI is everywhere) and the output game is quite nice. you can actually play the game
One needs to surf this wave out or drown in it. 
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I hear you my friend but you mentioned the video from HowToMarketAGame and I think Chris is more positive than people could get.
The slop has always been there. It is just easier now to make it. But on the long run (check the latest steam next fest after day 2) the good games will overcome the slop.
My feedback to all; keep the faith and keep making good games!
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Unfortunately, it seems that there is even bigger issue than slop 
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Yeah that one scares the shit out of me
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Cash grabbers powered by AI are coming.
If marketing/UA for a game is already hard/expensive I wonder how it will be in a year or so.
Production costs will come down but marketing will be a slaughter fest!
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Agreed: all the costs are moving to marketing now.
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