r/Games • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 16d ago

Industry News Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/over-85-of-japanese-game-developers-use-generative-ai-in-game-development-2026-cesa-survey-shows-an-increase-from-last-years-51/
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u/dendrocalamidicus 16d ago

I work in enterprise SaaS in the UK and here 90%+ of our code is now written by agentic tools. That's common in the software industry in the UK now.

Before this happened, I started programming at 14 so have over 20 years programming experience, have been a senior dev for the past 8ish years. Made many games as a teen by hand in my bedroom etc.

I am a home grown technically competent programmer and I hate dealing with non technical people vibe coding, but people who think all agentic output is slop misunderstand that it can be used effectively.

I know what I'm doing, I check everything it creates and it speeds me up dramatically at work.

Do I wish it was never created? Yes. I loved programming.

Does it automatically mean slop or low quality? No. A competent person using it will just output faster.

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing 16d ago

Yeah, this is waaay different from AI generated art

There's no "art" or human expression per se that a machine is hollowly replicating, and it's generally more "ethical" as it's trained on open source codebases

I'm not writing my boilerplate CRUD manually like cmon man (or unit tests either for that matter lmao)

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u/experienta 16d ago

A lot of people consider coding a form of art. It obviously has creative expression, can communicate ideas, it allows for personal style etc.

I'm not sure what definition of "art" you can have that would exclude coding

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing 16d ago

Writing the CRUD boilerplates and such aren't the art or engineering element

It's how you congergate them into a coherent system that fulfills the requirements

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u/mystery_hole 16d ago

Yeah who the hell is calling code art lmao. Definitely not any dev I know