I am confident that this will go poorly for them and will be keeping a supply of popcorn handy.
Just a few days ago there was the post about a vibe coder where the AI deleted the production database. Let’s hope this will be just as entertaining.
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.
“Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they’ve spent months building tools to craft levels quicker,” said one employee. “Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams. Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals have been creating.”
Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.
These games should be illegal anyways. They’re basically creating an algorithm that inhibits you to influence you to pay anyways. Not a game with gameplay but an actual business and this is just the business model layered like a game.
I was looking for some games to pass time in waiting rooms etc and was disappointed to see even Bejeweled has ‘contains ads’ & ‘in-app purchases’ warnings on play store. Why can’t I outright buy it like I already have on Steam?
i used to play that on my pc like 10 years ago.
People still do.
Yep. I assume since Candy Crush hasn’t been culturally relevant for like 10 years that it’s on its last leg anyway and this is a desperate attempt to prop up a dying company. Though I’m afraid to check though because I don’t want to see that it’s still posting record profits year after year.
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
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
Hopefully the company also creates "A. I. " to play its games as well.
Already happening.
Heh; I remember when Candy Crush was just one guy and an Apple Developer account.
I thought those were generated automatically/procedurally already lol
Same. As much as it sucks, how are 200 people involved in candy crush?
They’re getting candy CRUSHED
There are still human there?!
Only in a biological sense. Their sold their souls a long time ago.
I don’t see any way this can go wrong. And even if it does, it’s dead easy to rehire talent. /s
That tracks, it’s already slopware.
Cozy Match3 is much much awesomer
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.
Best of luck. Cheers.
