Game developer. Started with Flash, then UE contracts for 10+ years. Previously Gun Jam, Islands of Nyne, Fearless Fantasy. Now we are cooking with fire (AI)
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AI destroyed my industry. Real thing. I teach people. Always have. At one point I was earning 100k a month selling online coding courses.
Today I can’t make money with training videos if I wanted to. My peers have the same issue: AI is killing video courses. Why learn a tech skill when AI can do the work?
It’s frustrating. But it’s also an opportunity. Now I do more human coaching than ever before.
I spend way more time helping people reach outcomes (vs just a skill).
I’ve had to adapt. I have anxiety from time to time and working closely with people often drains me. But I’ve had to evolve how I work.
The same with coding and SAAS. Everything is changing.
It’s ironic, with AI I’ve personally been forced to be more human and connect at a more human level in order to connect with people and sell products. People are less tolerate of noise and slop.
I’m 40 and learning new things is harder. But I have to. And honestly, I’m having more fun learning AI than struggles and hardships.
All to say is that I’m navigating this changing world like everyone else and I think there is no need to group people in buckets of “Pro AI vs Against AI”
We are all people. And just because things are hard doesn’t mean they are wrong.
People seem to like the Skyrim post. I am having second thoughts about releasing "Cardboard Racing" now 😅
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ClaudiaGI - Accélère! (Accelerate!)
Some more local-gen french slopcore with english subs 😁
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AI is perfect for prototyping and quickly throwing code away in search for the fun. Driven by a senior game developer who knows game mechanics and has a gamer background. A person like this can playtest/iterate rapidly with AI. Just one dev, no dependencies. Placeholder art.
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If AI had been writing and reviewing its own code for the past few decades, and humans had only recently started looking into what it was up to and discovered an ever-growing list of CVEs, we would reasonably conclude that AI hadn’t been good at coding all along and that we should just start over.
Except it’s the other way around.
Humans have been the ones writing and reviewing each other’s code for decades. Very diligently, if I may add.
If we’re being intellectually honest and holding ourselves to the same bar we hold AI to, we’d have to admit that we haven’t been all that good at it either.
This really is master-level trolling. And the amount of likes on replies that fell for it are proof how far behind most people still are in their perception of current AI capabilities.
It is what it is. If you want to make rational forward-thinking decisions right now you just have to accept that a large part of the population will not understand it at all. The only logical choice is to follow Epic's example and just not give a fuck. If you are the type that gets easily influenced by public opinion, frankly you'll be in for a rough time. History will tell the real story as always.
Vibe your way to 50K.
The 2026 Epic AI MegaJam begins Nov 12: epic.gm/epic-ai-megajam-2026
ALT Red pill or blue pill meme from The Matrix, about choosing between two paths. Two open hands are held out on a black background. The red pill is labeled “Ship awesome games in a weekend.” The blue pill is labeled “Wait months to prototype.”
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Make games that are a kaleidoscope of personality polished into a product. Gimmick games are dead.
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I'm not saddened by this announcement. The sadness came over a decade ago, when I knew the Bioware I loved no longer existed.
Never forget: Great work isn't made by organizations or intellectual properties. Great work is made by geniuses. When the geniuses are gone, only the shell remains. From then on, you only get disappointment and the occasional vapors of greatness-that-was.
See also: Star Wars. Star Trek. Lord of the Rings.
The paradoxical thing about X for me is that if I were to post regularly enough like it seems to be required to get actual engagement on this platform, I would probably unfollow myself.
Perhaps if I get to a point where I can share something interesting about my work every day it would feel different. But I really hate the idea of posting random engagement farming posts every few hours, and I usually unfollow anybody who does that even if I am generally interested in their posts. It just doesn’t feel genuine.
I blocked these tags and now my Next Fest discover queue is just black. That's the real problem right here, not AI.
I'm not saying there's no place for games like this. But I view these the same way I used to view all the casual games back in the day (mostly match 3 and hidden objects). A valid hustle, but for a completely different audience. Just give me a clean way to filter all this out and let me get back to what I am really interested in.
Even beyond those tags, just finding a single game that looks appealing, plays well, provides a real story or at least a unique immersive world, and has no major technical or QOL issues is nearly impossible. That's why I still can't agree with "we have too many games". If anything, we still don't have enough games of quality.
We just need better filters.
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“Those who know cannot explain, those who don’t cannot understand.” That line from Dynamo Open Air ’96 has lived in my head for 30 years.
It’s becoming true again with AI in game development. You can’t really grasp how much the work is changing until you’ve spent real time building with the tools. Reading about it isn’t the same as feeling the shift in what you can make and how fast you can make it.
In the words of Gorilla Biscuits (band): Start Today.
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Worth mentioning that at Epic, we’ve been experimenting and monitoring the development of AI production tools for several years. It feels like we’ve now hit an inflection point where they’re genuinely adding value for developers. So time to fully commit.
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As someone early in my career at Epic, I’ll share my experience, especially since a lot of this conversation is about what AI means for people just starting out. I love using this as a tool.
I think a lot of people don’t realize how much AI has changed, even since 2025. It’s not just “slop”. It’s been amazing at helping me as a designer work through more advanced technical challenges so I can focus more on what makes games feel fun. I use it, I enjoy it, and I’ve built 3 UEFN prototypes I’ve always dreamed of making in a WEEK with its help.
I’m speaking for myself here, and I understand why other early career developers have concerns. But I’ve been having a blast learning and building with it. If you haven’t tried it recently, give it another shot. You might be surprised by what you can build. It’s a whole different tool now from even just a few months ago!
If you have any questions on it, please feel free to ask me via DM or reply!
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I’m just going to say it: The number of engineers not using AI coding is approaching zero. We are not talking about it because the public has all the nuance of a witch trial, but I assure you it’s true.
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I’ve been coding regularly since I was 13.
In the last 28 years I can’t remember a single full week where I didn’t write at least a dozen lines of code. I love it.
But in the past two months I haven’t written a single line of code and I’ve accomplished more than ever, thanks to AI. It’s an incredible time to be alive!
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The bottleneck in AI game development isn't the models anymore. It's my own creativity.
AI has allowed me to approach genres that historically required a lot of prior knowledge and experience, and it teaches me along the way. E.g. I'm building a heavily physics-based game (excavator simulator) and a music experience.
I learn in real time while pulling off work that used to take specialized teams months. The impossible is now within reach :-)
All this makes it an insane time for juniors breaking in. You can rapidly build real experience without being encumbered by the knowledge of what used to be impossible. AI is so new and changing so fast that there’s no large body of entrenched experience to overcome. The way we prompt today is already very different from a year ago.
What it takes is an open mind, curiosity, and grit!
And a lot of the seasoned veterans I’m talking to are having the time of their lives. They can finally apply their experience to pure creative direction and let the AI execute.
Wild time to be making games... and to be alive in general.
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I've myself been programming since I was 11, so 33 years and counting for me. Professionally for 29 years, since landing my first full-time software development gig at 15
The work has never been boring: bootloaders, kernels, device drivers, compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, graph databases, query engines, blockchains, tactical robotics, hundreds of libraries in dozens of languages, and many a website and app
Recently, a twenty-something friend expressed surprise that I'd managed to adapt to the new way of working, herding instead of hacking. I was somewhat taken aback by his surprise, until I realized that he couldn't really have a personal intuition of the sheer immensity of the change that already took place in computing over the past 40+ years
There haven't existed many other professions with the rate of change that software engineering has been subject to. The only constant has been change, and a substantial portion of the work has been continuous learning, every year and every day
To a first approximation, then, those of us who make it to becoming graybeards in our field have already passed through a harsh filter that weeded out anybody constitutionally ill-suited to riding the curve. And what a wild ride it's been, and that was just the prelude!
Personally, this year has seen the single largest change to my own way of working for decades, but the magnitude of that change is still less than that of the previous three decades put together. And as a fan of individual superempowerment, nothing makes me happier than gaining a more powerful lever with which to move the world
May we all aspire to Alan Kay's neuroplasticity at age 85+ and be inspired by his continuing efforts to rebuild computing from the ground up. Remember, the best way to predict the future is to create it!
