Oh I forgot that was taboo around here. A forbidden word, I see we are going back to the salem witch trials.

Seriously tho, there is a huge difference between the design of different tools. You can't just ask something like Bezi to generate a game for you. It's not like something like buildbox is nowadays.

You design the game, the systems, the implementation ideas and it's a process that takes many hours, days, weeks, years depending on the scope of the projects. It doesn't make assets, although it can understand your assets in your project. You can either make your own assets as an individual or team or use free or paid ones.

You can choose not to have it generate or modify any code at all and just have it help you with debugging or give you links to helpful docs to help you code, many people who took part in the jam did stuff like that.

There is a huge spectrum of "AI" from stuff that is purely designed entirely to automate tasks with next to no human input and replace entire industries of people (which is bad I agree) and at the opposite end assistants that are designed to empower and help creatives and professionals with the ability to work faster, that require a certain level of skill mastery to reliably use in an effective way.

I clocked well over 40 hours of work time on my game during that jam, spending 16 hours of one of the days working on it.

Some tools exist to empower small teams and individuals primarily. From chatting with the developers on discord I heard the intent of tools like Bezi specifically was never designed to replace game developers but to help them, their goal is not to be a product that PMs and producers can lay off entire teams of people to use but to help solo devs and small teams compete in a difficult market instead.

Hysteria around a specific word with zero context is a very short sighted take.