Discussion
The impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open To Work Crisis
tayo42: The topic has been done to death by now but this> He has a huge influence on the developer community, and he is deceiving his viewers about what is going on.The sub bubbles of development are so crazy to hear about. Idk if I ever interact with anyone that gets their development world view from people on YouTube.
coolThingsFirst: This cycle is in its 6th year and i am sure it’s the new normal.No way to go back, ever.Jobs may come back but expectations will triple as well. If you aren’t producing extremely fast it will be gg.No way to reverse this.
0x3f: I'm not convinced the bad market is due to AI at all. That's just a convenient excuse to do layoffs without the bad PR normally involved in admitting you need to do layoffs.Also, the Open to Work banner has the stink of desperation. Highly recommend disabling it. It's like dating. Act casual.
0xy: The open to work banner is an extremely negative signal. Nobody should use it.
dgellow: I would expect the majority of developers on their twenties
stego-tech: No real idea why this bubbled to the front page, as it’s just another milquetoast subjective take from a single point of view recapping the same events from their context. Nothing added, no food for thought, just the same old, same old.We need less folks ringing alarm bells without guidance and more folks offering help in troubling times. This, is not helpful.
gzread: What happens to a society where one class extracts payment from another class but the payment only flows in one direction and eventually the latter class doesn't have it, and outnumbers the former class?
appreciatorBus: What happens when a creative writer pens an influential treatise on economic and politics, but it turns out he was completely wrong on many key empirical aspects of human behaviour, leading to tens of millions of deaths, yet his followers will not see his failure and keep trying to turn over society to produce his false utopia?
gzread: I'm not sure what you're referring to. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations?
epicureanideal: Unless you're desperate to feed and house your family and anything that shortens your search by a day might keep a roof over your head?
hackthemack: Idle thought. Not an economist. What if the current tech scene is like how the u.s. capitalist class took power away from blue color workers in the 80s, 90s by leveraging cheaper labor in foreign countries? Now, programmers, sysadmins, system engineers no longer have leverage (real or imagined) because the owners just point to AI.
Apocryphon: I have to wonder how GenAI would have fared if these LLMs had become available anytime before 2020, during the “normal” tech bubble. It feels like the faith in it is as much to slash costs while appearing to be cutting-edge (and thus, worthy of what little investment is still available), as it is because of its capabilities. Where would we be if the tech industry wasn’t in such a dire state due to the end of ZIRP?
eapressoandcats: I think it is both a partial contributor but also overstated for the reason you mentioned. The main culprits IMO are over hiring during the zero interest rate period as well as the never ending increases in the supply of CS graduates.
