Sliders are so much better than asking Codex: "please add 5% more contrast and restart". There's still things where traditional tools beat AI by a mile in productivity.

Steam seems to want to give programmers a free pass, but the way the disclosure rules are worded is muddy. Developer can classify anything they want under productivity improvements, because that’s what automation is. And AI is automation. Many professional art pipelines nowadays have GenAI steps. Professional motion capture has been GenAI assisted for a while already. Much cheaper than old way of doing it. Steam has tried to phrase the AI disclosure in a way that all these currently used professional pipelines don’t need to be disclosed, as every AAA game would then need a disclosure. Same for Codex/ClaudeCode. Study shows that 70% of game programmers already use them. LLM is GenAI, but Steam wants to allow them too. I was using Codex to drive Blender. Is that fine? Unclear at the moment. Seems that gamers don’t rage about GenAI used to clean up your animations and mocap (even if trained on ”stolen” assets), generate UV maps (even if trained on ”stolen” assets) of writing the code (even if trained on ”stolen” game code). Thus Steam allows those without a disclosure. Super arbitary rules. But could could say anything is used to improve productivity to get a free pass :)