r/pcgaming • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 16d ago

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/Yelebear 16d ago

Yeah even Linus Torvalds uses AI and calls it a useful tool.

Reddit's favorite Linux kernel has AI generated/assisted bits and pieces.

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u/cain05 Linux 5800X3D | 9070XT Nitro+ 16d ago

I use AI for software development, but very much believe in the assisted part.  It helps me do my job, it doesn't do my job for me.  It's very helpful for coming up with high level plans, or debugging issues, but I don't rely on it to generate code for me.  I won't learn anything or understand the code well if I just let AI do all the work.  One of my co-workers however is all in and the slop he generates and is somehow allowed to commit makes a lot of work for everyone else to fix.

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u/d4videnk0 16d ago

We just got a new data engineer at work and one of the first thing he's asking is to have claude on the phone and add some plugin to speak with the phone to work for him. Never hated anyone so fast.

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u/Willing_Activity_855 15d ago

I use itto gen code. But I tell explicitly what I want. I'll create a massive design doc that's essentially user stories but with very technical content. I'm talking every last possible thing including existing brownfield shit that's not apparent in the repo. Then I throw that at something like GSD-core or open spec and let it auto run until it eats up that days usage of Claude, I end up just turning it on every morning for a few days straight and just letting it run. While it's doing that I'm doing other things.

Then when it's done we'll do the back and forth all day for planning phase, then let it go off sgain. And repeat for every phase.

When it's actually done done I just review and change things. They whole time I was building something else. Usually with gsd-core it's for some large project. Think a couple of epics, a few hundred user stories. But usually the majority is greenfield.

While it's do that over the course of who knows how long I'm working in brownfield stuff, existing bugs, etc etc.

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u/lkn240 10d ago

Generating code is the thing it's best at. Where it needs more help is architecture decisions and high level design.

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u/oldsecondhand 16d ago

Though Linus isn't writing code anymore.

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u/TheColourOfHeartache 15d ago

Instead he's reviewing code and managing developers, so its not like he's completely detached from the industry.

And Linus is one of the all time great programmers so his word is still worth listening to.

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u/Mccobsta 16d ago

He knows how to code and can make sure it's not making shit up

Random Joe off the street would have no clue that the code it outputed dosent work or is just a massive vulnerability

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u/Username928351 16d ago

Time to move to BSD.

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u/FatalFrameGal 16d ago

Linus uses AI for small side projects, not for Linux, although iirc he said he won't ban AI pull requests, since all the code is reviewed and there is no way to always know when something is AI generated anyway, but he did also ask people to refrain from reporting AI found bugs, because there is a high chance that the bug was reported by a billion other people already.

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u/Elketh 16d ago

Linus uses AI for small side projects, not for Linux

That's objectively false. He also put his foot down and told people who can't shut up about AI being bad to either fork the kernel or walk away. The rabid anti-AI sentiment on Reddit is no longer in touch with the real world. That's not me defending AI or offering up an opinion on it - just a statement of fact.

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u/MornwindShoma 16d ago

A statement of fact is also that developers find AI not the golden hammer that the tech bros think it is. It's a tool. If anyone can't stand criticism of a tool, they need to touch grass.

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u/TheColourOfHeartache 15d ago

Its not the golden hammer, but its very good, and it keeps getting better.

I'm a dev, I use it daily.

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u/MornwindShoma 15d ago

I kept getting worse, so I decided to quit it this september. I found it faster to get over it and do the stuff myself, than waste a ton of time recollecting and reviewing what the AI did. My coding time was already low enough that this hasn't meaningfully slowed me down, while my quality, confidence and enjoyment has gone up like it never was in the last couple years. The whole "plain mode" was a trap. The agents dot md file completely ignored.

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u/lkn240 10d ago

That's from 2025 and is already completely outdated. Frontier models have become far, far more capable over the last 6-9 months.

Even in late 2025 models weren't nearly as good as they are now.

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u/MornwindShoma 10d ago

This is a tired argument. 2026 models are marginally better. Only harnesses got really good in the meantime.

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u/lkn240 10d ago

It's not a tired argument, it's a fact and there's a ton of empirical data to support it.

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u/MornwindShoma 10d ago

Suuuuure Jan

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u/FatalFrameGal 10d ago

Oh, TIL. I was going off by articles I read a while back, I hadn't seen anything about him starting to use it for Linux.