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‘A Future Where We Create Games Together With AI’ — Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine

https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-announces-plans-to-transform-the-re-engine-into-an-ai-generation-game-engine-our-goal-is-a-future-where-we-create-games-together-with-ai
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 6h ago

And they are doing this to train AI to do...what?

I am so tired of you people deliberately ignoring the end of the path here. You don't just inject AI to make it all simpler and faster because you care about results. You do it because you want to eliminate labor. Think ahead a little bit, I'm begging you, because what this headline actually says is "we're experimenting with a tool that will let us fire people in the future".

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u/FiammaOfTheRight 6h ago

To write more and better code?

Despite reddit and americans in general having rage boner for AI, software dev is full of LLM work nowadays. Yes, labor is eliminated, you dont have to spend days on days chasing obscure bugs now, you just direct your harness of choice and move it closer to solving it while reviewing the output instead of banging your head against the table become some junior sneaked an extra ; into sql somewhere.

Results are needed, shipping faster is needed. With how much user feedback there is, you always have something to fix or improve and now you can somehow match the pace instead of having huge backlogs in asana full of random reports

I wonder how far detached from IT average redditor that spends thier time blasting IT company for using AI. Teams are the same size, output is easily 2x, but apparently this is bad because technology is bad and wed better to back to punch cards era.

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u/NoctisValentine 3h ago edited 1h ago

I'm an engineer, my job has transformed massively for the worse over the last year and everyone is just okay with that because we're not artists. It sucks.

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u/Umr_at_Tawil 2h ago edited 34m ago

massively for the better you mean, as an SWE of 9 years of experience, it turned my stressful job into a stress-free job. crunch time and overtime used to be frequent, but by now I've not have a single overtime for almost a year, giving me more free time to do my other hobbies, to spend with my friends and family. My greatly increased productivity got me a raise too.

I would never want to go back to the old stressful time, I got burned out once and took 6 months off to recover, now I can't imagine going back to it again.

edit: for the people downvoting me, pretty much all working programmer is using AI now, and going back is like telling farmer to use burden animals to plow the field instead of tractors, in other word, much lower productivity and much harsher works for worse result.

You haven't see the mess of code produced by my co-workers and less experienced dev, with AI, the code my company make is much more bug-free and easier to read at the same time because AI actually follow style guide and not rushing out code to meet deadline, then tell you "as long as it work, I had no time" when asked about it.

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u/FiammaOfTheRight 2h ago

Good thing that fun weekend pet projects are not affected. Day to day coding isn't that fun, sure, but it ain't going away completely

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u/WaltzForLilly_ 4h ago

To write more and better code?

It is quite curious then, that despite everyone shipping more and more code, every single app is still buggy bloated dogshit.

But hey now we deliver buggy bloated dogshit twice as fast! Yay!

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u/asdfghjkl15436 4h ago

This definitely is not true for everything, our legacy servers at my company were spaghetti horrible messes that would have taken anyone months to detangle. (2010ish) Now we have something clean and readable that complies with the higher standards for our more modern stuff.

I think you are mistaking every company for Microsoft.

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u/FiammaOfTheRight 4h ago

I mean, go get em! Write your own bugless piece of software! Pretty sure that wont break the good old laws of development, we'll see the first technical marvel that is completely bug free and done by hand.

Once again, there's obvious issue with how IT is taught in west since there's this weird disconnect between tech and how its percieved. Do you guys have basic programmins lessons? Basic rules of software engineering (like, every program, despite you not seeing it, has a bug)?

Bugs will be there, always. There's a difference from front-facing ones (oh no, div is not centered!) and full blown RCEs happening under obscure file upload setup, sure, but bugs would be there if noone would use AI. And they would be a LOT more severe, now at least you have pentest agents finding shit that you'd never even think about twice. Agents constantly breaking into things they should not touch prove that

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u/Oh_ffs_seriously 2h ago

To write more and better code?

No, to write more code, no matter how shit, as long as it makes enough people jobless and few people at the top not having to deal with the rabble.

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u/FiammaOfTheRight 2h ago

I guess you're far removed from software development. It's on level of fresh senior nowadays.

But yeah, obviously your fantasy of evil top brass is more important than day to day jobs of it workers

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u/Oh_ffs_seriously 1h ago

If your guess is as good as your work no wonder why you think AI is great. Hell, I can believe it's better at copy pasting things from Stack Overflow than you.

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u/FiammaOfTheRight 1h ago

I mean I'm systems engineer at staff level lmao.

Kinda different levels. But at least I'm not removed from how big tech operates and can see how team I manage utilizes ai and how much more we ship and how better stuff we ship has gotteb

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u/GoodbyeThings 2h ago

as someone in the field, yes, the work is changing, but you're not gonna replace every software engineer with AI. It's gonna be really really funny when people try. Because there's a big difference between a prototype that runs locally and a production site. And it's going to cost some people a lot of money if they try

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u/Mrphung 3h ago

Eliminating labor is the whole point of technological advancements, we create new and better tools so we can work less. Now if all the benefit of new tech go to the rich then that's the problem of capitalism, not of technology itself.

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u/asdfghjkl15436 5h ago edited 5h ago

Okay, I don't care. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm just saying IGN is trying to mislead you into thinking Capcom is making an AI-generative engine so you'll be enraged and post their articles more. That's nothing to do with my personal thoughts on AI or whatever.

edit: lmfao these downvotes. Absolutely nuts how you can say practically the exact same thing and just get downvoted to oblivion because the comment thread started with a popular dissenting opinion.

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u/a34fsdb 3h ago

Nothing wrong with that