However, as staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts — which is behind some of the biggest franchises in the industry, from “The Sims” to “Battlefield” — told Business Insider, their employer’s attempts to shoehorn AI into everyday tasks are seriously backfiring.
Some staffers told the outlet that the AI tools they’re encouraged to use produce flawed code, among other hallucinations that need to be addressed.
In other words, the tech may be creating more work, not less — which doesn’t bode well for an industry that’s already infamous for its crunch culture and high turnover rate.
Oh No!
Who could have foreseen this highly unexpected outcome?
LLMs make programming take longer while also making it more fragile and difficult to maintain. This is well established by the data. The people in charge of these companies are worse than stupid, they are dangerous.
This isn’t just a “people in charge” problem. Way too many developers are part of the problem by using LLMs for the wrong problems.
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You end up just telling the AI exactly what you want in excruciating detail, and it still might not get it right (it probably won’t).
It’s more like the AI is promoting you to just write the code.
Same old story: the LLM code is crap and people are having to work harder to cover for the LLM’s mistakes.
Shocking.
It’s almost as if we’re rediscovering outsourcing all over again. Every time a company I have worked for outsourced code we 100% of the time had to either ditch to project all together or rewrite the code ourselves, thus negating all the money “saved” by outsourcing. I see the exact same thing happening with AI now.
And experts like me getting told to fear for their job. Yeah well guess what? You just pissed me off and have to pay more and I’m more required and requested than ever.
executives who cant be trusted to hit the save button on an excel spreadsheet forcing developers to use LLMs to cut labor costs deserve the code that is produced
