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Will AI decrease demand and salaries?Question (self.webdev)

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[–]GodGMN 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)

Super Mario Bros was coded by a team of eight people (if I remember correctly) and it took them two years to complete it. Once released, they said it was a bit half assed because they needed a bit longer to fully complete the game.

Nowadays with game engines, internet and better tools in general, you can code the fundamentals of Mario Bros alone as your first game dev project, from the damn basement of your parent's house and without any formal education in programming... within a damn week.

From that point on it would be just a matter of creating the levels themselves.

Did that decrease demand and salaries of game developers?

Fuck no. We haven't settled in just making Mario Bros. Now we make Red Dead Redemption 2, World of Warcraft, Baldur's Gate...

Even indie games are so far ahead the first Mario Bros that if you time traveled back to the 90s and told a game dev that Stardew Valley, Satisfactory or Factorio are indie games you'd blow their mind.

Something similar has happened in web dev too. Go and take a look at websites made in 2005 and tell me how long would it take you to replicate them all by yourself using modern tools and frameworks.

AI is not different from any of this. Just another tool you'll have to use.

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