Game Industry Veteran: AI Crossed the Dev-Skill Threshold, Studios Face a Death Spiral
draginol · x · 2026-09-17
A veteran game developer's essay argues AI has crossed a threshold: per GitHub's own blog data, around December 2025 AI became better than most software developers, so anyone can ship "software or something like it."
- GitHub is the canary in the coal mine — no barrier to entry
- The next content explosion will hit Steam
- This accelerates the death spiral of many game studios
- Thesis: attention is the new currency for game development
The author thinks the AI hype may be overblown but the disruption is inevitable.
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