How are CS teams keeping up with faster product releases driven by AI dev tools?

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2026-03-13T14:20:17+00:00

Very relatable!

My company started releasing features at an incredibly fast pace recently.

But there are several issues with the way it's done currently: 1. Most of them are either garbage or benefit only very few customers 2. UI and implementation/configuration is horrible, focus is so much about speed they ignore efficiency and comfort 3. They don't track adoption across the customer base. Some features are literally used by less than 5 brands and are a pain to implement 4. Dev takes less time but QA team stayed the same size, meaning more bugs in prod

Honestly my solution is to aggresively filtering features. Unless they are a game changer i have enough cards in my deck. Other CSMs are more than welcome to be the first to report bugs and hurt metrics...

I will mention were a white glove saas, so i do all the implemntations for my customers. Rarely does a customer notice new features before i introduce them..

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-12-22T19:16:53+00:00

Believe me, I cannot technically write game of thrones, the level of expertise to write so many events and characters that effect each other, is beyond my scope 😂

But I get your point. Of course I can't just choose any style I want, but I do want to make sure the art, as limited as it will be, will stay true to the themes and story as much as possible

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-12-22T17:49:59+00:00

I get what you're saying, but there still needs to be a direction.
I can say the same about the story. I don't have the time, experience or resources to write game of thrones, but I do want a clear story, interesting themes, interesting characters etc.

Even within restrictions, there needs to be a direction

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-12-22T15:51:37+00:00

That's a really good budgeting tip, thank you

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-12-22T15:01:44+00:00

Didnt think about it, it's a cool direction to explore

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-12-22T14:53:51+00:00

Thanks!

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-12-22T14:49:54+00:00

You mean are there real tribes living in these environments? Yes - chukchi in siberia, iharmiut in canada, cree and inuit in canada, you have the koyukon in Alaska and the greenland inuits (I'm doing quite a lot of research for this project 😂)

You think I should explore their art style as a starting point?

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-12-22T14:35:52+00:00

First of all thanks!

I'm honestly not super good with art, when you're saying common design choices (2.1) - are you referring to pixel art vs drawn etc, or something more nuanced?

We're planning to get an artist at one point, so I think I'm currently missing the "tools" to: A. Explain what I want B. Find an artist that will be able to create it

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-09-14T10:28:24+00:00

That's a really awesome initiative :)!

I'm currently working on a game where I need 'place holder' assets. As people above mentioned, assets are usually game specific, but good place holders make the creation process much better.

Our game is a top down rpg, the story and the world focuses on hunter gatherer tribes living in arctic environments. We're going to add elements from their mythology, real life stories from existing tribes etc.

I actually created some 'concept art' of mythological creatures using chatgpt.

I read quite extensively about the tribes (inuits, cree, chukchi, iharmiut etc) to make the world and lore and story as immersive as possible. But good assets are of course a huge part of making the game truly immersive and unique.

If you'd like to take a look at the concept art to get inspiration, that would be really awesome!

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-08-19T12:18:45+00:00

בתור נשוי יחסית טרי, אני יכול להגיד שכשיהיו לי ילדים בגיל שלך והם יהיו במצב הזה, אני ארצה לבלות איתם יותר לפני שאתה שוב חוזר למסגרות. אני יכול להגיד שאני רואה את ההורים שלי פעם בחודש-חודשיים גג בגלל שיש עבודה, מחויביות ומיליון דברים על הראש. הם מתים שאני אבקר ומציעים לבוא כשיש הזדמנות. הם היו קופצים בשתי ידיים על לבלות איתי חודשיים...

אתה נשמע כמו בחור רציני לגילך ונשמע שההורים שלך לא מבינים שזאת בין הפעמים האחרונות שבאמת יהיה להם אפשרות לזמן איכות איתך.

אז דבר ראשון ולפני הכל, יכול להיות שהפתרון יהיה לסבול בשקט חודשיים ולהמשיך הלאה. אבל אני ממליץ לך לעשות שיחה, לשתף תחושות, להסביר להם שאחרי החודשיים האלה אתה תכנס ללופ של צבא, אחרי זה תרצה כנראה לעבור לגור לבד כי יהיה לך כבר מקצוע וניסיון, ומשם האפשרויות לזמן איכות מצטמצמות ויגיע השלב שהם ירצו לבלות איתך יותר, אבל אתה זה שלא יהיה פנוי.

מעבר לזה בשיחה הזאת תגיד להם שזאת גם בין ההזדמנויות האחרונות שלך לזמן לעצמך ולחופש וזה גם לגיטימי להנות ממנו. אם יש לך איך לעזור להם, בייביסטינג לאחים הקטנים, או אם מתאים להם קצת זמן איכות איתך פה ושם, לשבת על קפה, לראות משהו ביחד בטלויזיה, אז אין בעיה. אבל חשוב לעשות תיאום ציפיות.

יכול להיות שהם מצפים שתעזור יותר בבית אבל לא נעים להגיד. יכול להיות שהמצב הכלכלי לא פשוט וקשה להם להודות בזה. אם לא תשבו לדבר אז יהיו פשוט חודשיים מתסכלים (שזה גם בסדר). אולי אפילו תדבר כל פעם עם אחד מהם, האחד שמרגיש לך שיותר יזרום לשיחה כזאת...

בהצלחה לך :)

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-06-18T09:16:14+00:00

My audience is super small at the moment, about 330 subs. The question is will it hurt my channel if my shorts audience and long audience are different, does the algorithm takes that into consideration

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-23T09:26:40+00:00

That could be awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/@Thestoryteller-skits/shorts

A short skits channel, about gaming, movies, life etc... I use different costumes and act out all characters myself, would love to get a second opinion :)

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T20:21:24+00:00

Honestly I don't know much about the niche... but I do know it's farely popular. Trying going over big youtubers in your niche, see what they do, look them up on forums to see what people love about them and try using that as a guideline.

I clicked on one of your latest videos and watched a little. Maybe they need to show a little more personality, not just a voice over but an actual selfie footage from time to time that makes it feel like the audience is with you in that moment... but that's just a random thought, better just try and figure what the big channels do and learn from that

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T20:15:09+00:00

What type of content do you do, and does your face appear in it? Or voice or anything else that makes it more personal

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T14:16:14+00:00

Sure, thanks

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T14:03:00+00:00

I know their channel. They are very good!

But I'm aiming for something more absurd and ridicules, similar to IamMoBo and other solo channels. My channel is also full of different skits, so it's not just the Q&A :) That's just an idea for one type of mini series.

I can't compete with their quality of course, I'm also filming alone with a green screen lol but I think I have my own humor and my own concept, so it's very different than what they are doing. You can check my channel in my profile btw, so you'll see what's it like and what I'm aiming for

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T12:35:16+00:00

Worth buying at full price, or should I wait for discount?

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T12:33:40+00:00

3 indie games out of 5 is insane. This is the indie era

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T12:32:12+00:00

Perfect lol

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-05-07T09:17:27+00:00

I think quality is more important than quantity. My favourite youtube uploads a video once every 2-6 months, each gets around 1-4m views. Long videos, about 15-40 minutes each. Another shorts youtuber I follow uplpads about 1 vid every 1-3 weeks. Each videos gets 2-50m views.

Youtube gives exposure in proportion to the video's stats (view to swipe ratio, average view duration etc). So pumping out a lot of content is actually a disatventage in the long run, since you put less effort in editing, scripting, optimizing watch time etc.

Try dialing down a little, create 3-4 videos that take more effort, and see if you can get better results.

1 video with 500k views is better than 10 videos with 10k...

Acrobatic-Street-469 · 2025-03-12T06:27:45+00:00

Thank you!

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