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Were they?

I believe it to be very likely. AI is a development tool that allows you to implement things that simply weren't possible before due to time constraints.

You don't need a plane to get from America to Europe, but there are constraints if you don't use one.

I think most people are angry about the artistic portion like images and dialogue of games being AI generated more than the code. Code can be art as well in my opinion, but it still can be even if you AI just ported a large part of your code base to another target engine for example.

i'm pretty convinced that if you look at the cadence and tempo of updates on Steam among actively developed games that one could probably make pretty good guesses about which groups are using LLMs internally.

Doesn't prove anything, lots of stuff changes development house tempo, but to anyone watching things as a whole updates across steam games in active development are 1) quickening 2) narrowing 3) becoming predictably scheduled ; all of these point to more than just a single group refocusing on the work at hand.

I think builds are getting pushed out a lot quicker, and personally I know of a lot of anecdotes where groups' entire build and output chain are handled by LLMs invoked by cron (or a clone). That alone will add a lot of regularness to things.

This is true in general, but how does that apply to this game? Their release schedule has followed a pattern for years, this release included - a major version every 1-2 years, followed by a flurry of hotfixes that then slow down until the next major release. Wouldn't you see that schedule tighten post-LLMs if they became as AI-pilled as this comment thread wants them to be?

Tynan has been pretty positive about LLMs on his twitter. I obviously don't have any inside information, but I think it would be very surprising to me if there was zero usage of a frontier model in doing something like this.

Oh noooo definitely not :) Nuh-uh no way no sir.

So, your proof is the absence of proof.

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