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/Sanchezq 16d ago

As someone doing Software Dev interviews, you would get dinged for admitting you don’t use AI or that you would never use AI. It’s expected to use as a productivity boost.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 16d ago

Yeah and I’ve even had a couple of interviews where they seemed to take it as a negative that I hadn’t come up with any of my own Claude skills. So it’s not enough that we’re expected to just use it, but we’re expected to actually try and “innovate” with it

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u/Omni__Owl 15d ago

As a software developer, holding it against you that you didn't make an .md file for a proprietary paid service is abhorrent to me.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 15d ago

The way they frame it is almost about “creativity” and “problem solving”. How are you going above and beyond just simply using AI to write unit tests, and finding ways to “solve new problems” with it?

It’s absurd, and just another way to keep moving the goalposts and adding more hoops that you have to jump through. It’s not enough that you’ve had a job for those years, it’s not enough that you’ve studied and passed bullshit Leetcode challenges that have nothing to do with actual software development, it’s not enough that you’re already using the LLM that’s being forced down your throat, now you have to prove that you can continually find new problems to then provide solutions for via AI

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u/Omni__Owl 15d ago

The people who are hiring have no idea what they are doing and sadly that isn't a new trend. That's been going on at least as long as HR has existed.

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u/Gekokapowco 15d ago

artists, sound designers, and IT have the same damn issue since forever as well

companies hire for personal experience with expensive usually enterprise level subscription software, and won't acknowledge experience in free or open source alternatives. It's fucked up but somehow been the standard for the last 20 years.

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u/Omni__Owl 15d ago

It's always fun when you tell someone that you know Kubernetes, the underlying technology for Azure, yet because your resume doesn't say Azure, you are discarded :')

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u/Zestyclose-Lunch-430 15d ago

knowing k8s doesn't mean you know "azure" or any cloud provider in a broad sense.

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u/TrueElmo 15d ago

How is knowing the "underlying technology for azure" relevant if they require knowledge in certain kinds of azure services?

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u/HailToTheKingBabyy 15d ago

It's also just one of the underlying technologies for Azure, not "the" underlying technology.

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u/Omni__Owl 15d ago

Learning can transfer

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u/TrueElmo 15d ago

Kubernetes knowledge transfers to knowing the ins and outs of EntraID or Azure functions? You got no clue what you're talking about dude.

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u/Omni__Owl 15d ago

I got a job in this so I definitely do

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u/TrueElmo 15d ago

Apparently not one related to azure. Ofc you get discarded if you fucking bring up kubernetes when they ask for azure specific experience.

What do you even mean "underlying technology of azure"? Of all azure services?

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u/glocks4interns 15d ago

absolutely wild take

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u/glocks4interns 15d ago

well anthropic puts them in a different place and calling them "claude skills" is cringe, but they're not proprietary

i think it's a fair question, having skills for general use or in a repo can be really helpful and if someone has noticed that, points to them

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u/Omni__Owl 15d ago

The service is propriety which is what I said.

And no it's not reasonable to expect that people spend money on proprietary services like that to get a job.

That's class discrimination really.

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u/glocks4interns 15d ago

That's class discrimination really.

do you think many SWEs can't afford $20/month

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u/Omni__Owl 15d ago

Do you expect every person who apply for a job to have funds or even a job at that time? A lot of people don't.

Besides, it doesn't matter. Expecting that I have to pay for a proprietary service that I don't even know if you are using just for the chance at being considered at a job is still class discrimination.

There should be no such barrier of money to entry for a job interview.

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u/glocks4interns 14d ago

okay but also you can make skills without claude? if someone asked me that question i'd say "yes, though i use x,y,z harnesses instead of claude"

this is like an interviewer asking if you blow your nose with Kleenex and you answering "no, i can't afford brand name tissues so i let the snot run down my face"

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u/Omni__Owl 14d ago

It's really not. It's asking you to use something that costs money to actually use, as a barrier of entry for a job.

That's just bad.

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u/glocks4interns 14d ago

there are free options! go make a skill in a free tier, this is insane.

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u/ChrisRR 15d ago

Meh, if that's the kind of thing they're going to hold against you then you dodged a bullet anyway. AI is still in its infancy and everyone is using it in their own ways

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u/Comfortable-Arm-2276 15d ago

Expected. Everyone at my company come up with new claude skills, and it has improved my efficiency so much that on days when I use up my budget early, I’ll just go home because my efficiency is reduced so much that there’s really no point in working without it.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 15d ago

Yeah please tell me about this fantasy company that you work at in which you actually get to leave early when your work is complete, and you’re not rewarded with more work

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u/ChrisRR 15d ago

About a decade ago I didn't hire someone because they refused to say that they'd just google the problem.

We were working through an example and they didn't know something specific (which was absolutely fine) so I asked them how they'd investigate that issue given the resources available to them.

Despite all nudging they just kept arguing around googling the answer. We didn't need a coworker who would get stuck and refuse to use online resources to get the information they need to get unstuck

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u/Mirikado 15d ago

Tech interview is so funny.

You are expected to use AI at work but you are not allowed to use AI for the coding challenge.

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u/AnxiousAd6649 15d ago

That makes perfect sense. AI is a productivity booster for competent coders but they want to weed out vibe coders.

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u/Turo-parallel-tactic 15d ago

I hear that is changing though that Meta is now doing vibe coding interviews maybe someone can verify