Game dev looks like the programming field most resistant to AI — how much is it actually used?
marktenenholtz · x · 2026-09-23
marktenenholtz observes that game development seems to be one of the programming fields most opposed to AI in development, asking anyone at a big studio to speak to how much AI is actually used in practice — his guess is it's a lot. The post opens discussion about adoption friction in game studios (performance-sensitive code, huge codebases, complex creative pipelines) versus actual behind-the-scenes usage.
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