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Debate Heats Up on AI Disrupting Game Studios

Alex Finn's post on an AI game studio sparks replies from developers and engineers on X.

Alex Finn posted that the next trillion dollar AI business will be an AI game studio. He noted the video game industry exceeds movies and music combined yet suffers from high development costs and broken economics. Andreas Kling replied that more people will see their expertise replicated by AI and react with upset. Maxime Chevalier warned of risks to financial security. David Goldfarb predicted AI models will planet kill traditional game dev within 1.5 to 2 years, favoring small teams. Armin Ronacher and Richard Geldreich added comments on money flows and unsustainable team sizes.

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Debate Heats Up on AI Disrupting Game Studios

Alex Finn's post on an AI game studio sparks replies from developers and engineers on X.

Alex Finn posted that the next trillion dollar AI business will be an AI game studio. He noted the video game industry exceeds movies and music combined yet suffers from high development costs and broken economics. Andreas Kling replied that more people will see their expertise replicated by AI and react with upset. Maxime Chevalier warned of risks to financial security. David Goldfarb predicted AI models will planet kill traditional game dev within 1.5 to 2 years, favoring small teams. Armin Ronacher and Richard Geldreich added comments on money flows and unsustainable team sizes.

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Alex Finn@AlexFinn Yesterday
The next trillion dollar AI business will be an AI game studio The video game industry is bigger than you can imagine. Larger than movies and music COMBINED For YEARS now video games have absolutely SUCKED The economics of video games became broken. They became too expensive…
- likes: 1.4K
- replies: 276
- bookmarks: 563
- reposts: 92
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  Udi Wertheimer@udiWertheimer Yesterday
  @AlexFinn bro instead of typing all this you could’ve published 16 roblox games
  - likes: 78
  - replies: 7
  - bookmarks: 1
  - reposts: 0
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Richard Geldreich 🇺🇸@richgel999 Yesterday
It's easy to predict that AI is going to eat the game business alive and we won't recognize it in 5-10 years. Finn isn't wrong. I remember the armies of devs I saw toiling away on the largest projects in office buildings. It was/is unsustainable: "Developers demand hundreds of…
- likes: 22
- replies: 9
- bookmarks: 8
- reposts: 2
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pink@iJaadee Yesterday
When I told the Leo and Aqua girlies this the other day it was crickets 🦗 🦗🦗 Nobody wants it bad enough Alex. Everybody sleep but that’s okay, big Jade will take eat piece of the pie if that’s what it’s gotta be
- likes: 68
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- bookmarks: 24
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Andreas Kling@awesomekling Yesterday
Over the coming years, more and more people will see parts of their expertise replicated by AI, and many of them are going to be extremely upset about it and shame you for thinking it's neat. The software profession is in the middle of this right now, and it's pretty ugly. It's…
- likes: 791
- replies: 158
- bookmarks: 145
- reposts: 34
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  Armin Ronacher ⇌@mitsuhiko Yesterday
  @awesomekling I think this will get uglier once the realization kicks in, that all that money goes to US tech companies.
  - likes: 122
  - replies: 7
  - bookmarks: 4
  - reposts: 1

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323.8K

9 posts, first seen 1d ago

3.4K likes602 comments941 saves168 reposts

Sentiment

Positive32.5%67.5%Negative

Summary

Positive accounts welcomed AI for enabling larger creative projects and redefining programming careers, while negative replies objected to job losses and dismissed AI game outputs as low-quality.

Based on 90 sentiment-bearing replies from 80 accounts across 4 conversations.

Sentiment

Positive32.5%67.5%Negative

Summary

Positive accounts welcomed AI for enabling larger creative projects and redefining programming careers, while negative replies objected to job losses and dismissed AI game outputs as low-quality.

Based on 90 sentiment-bearing replies from 80 accounts across 4 conversations.

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Alex Finn@AlexFinn Yesterday
The next trillion dollar AI business will be an AI game studio The video game industry is bigger than you can imagine. Larger than movies and music COMBINED For YEARS now video games have absolutely SUCKED The economics of video games became broken. They became too expensive…
- likes: 1.4K
- replies: 276
- bookmarks: 563
- reposts: 92
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  Udi Wertheimer@udiWertheimer Yesterday
  @AlexFinn bro instead of typing all this you could’ve published 16 roblox games
  - likes: 78
  - replies: 7
  - bookmarks: 1
  - reposts: 0
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    Alex Finn@AlexFinn Yesterday
    @udiWertheimer making an extraction shooter. best genre right now
    likes: 24
    replies: 14
    bookmarks: 3
    reposts: 0
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      Udi Wertheimer@udiWertheimer Yesterday
      @AlexFinn singular shooter?
      likes: 1
      replies: 0
      bookmarks: 1
      reposts: 0
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  Conscious Node@Digital__James Yesterday
  Games hit at the internal paradox within every human being of the need & desire to create & engage with experiential experimentation in the form of play. The game industry is a synthesis of the acts of experiential experimentation in the form of work & play. It will be the super…
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    Conscious Node@Digital__James Yesterday
    Games, when you really think about it, are the encapsulation of every single experience that we do today that we call work. The only reason we consider it to be work is because of the nature of escaping physical & artificial scarcity. When scarcity is no longer existent in…
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    replies: 0
    bookmarks: 1
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