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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
  1. Indie developers who genuinely don’t use it.
[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Very few indie developers arent using it. The vast majority of casual devs have literally no idea the "code suggestions" they get from VSCode and other IDEs are AI generated, they often just assume its part of the LSP being fancy because itll only suggest a tiny bit of inline code.

Source: I do a lot of technical interviews at my company I work at, and I interview a lot of senior and junior devs all across the board.

Almost everyone has this feature enabled still (it ships pre-enabled and is opt out) and an incredibly high percent of devs are surprised when I tell them they have to disable that for the test, because it's AI assistance. They are often like "wait THATS AI?!?!?" and are genuinely shocked to learn this.

This % is very high for both juniors and seniors alike, its never really explicitly even made clear to you that its a feature you can disable, nor that its AI, its just there already working when you first install VSCode.

And basically everyone uses VSCode for most programming, theres other IDEs but VSCode heavily dominates as what pretty much everyone uses for every language except the small handful of ones that have their own bespoke IDEs for their use case.

But the VAST majority of game dev is C# and Lua now and a bit of python, and all of those are first class VS/VSCode languages as the IDE everyone and everything will recommend when you look up getting into it.

So yeah, no, Id estimate about 95% of game dev at this point, both amateur and professional, is using VSCode and has the AI "intellicode" feature enabled still, totally unaware they are injecting a shit tonne of AI generated code into their games.

The devs dont know it, the managers dont know it, the PR time doesnt know it, the CEO doesnt know it, no one is even aware this is a thing at most places lol. Everyone is just like "wow 's VSCode plugin just has such excellent quality autocomplete and quick fix suggestions, I love it!"

Not even joking, this is how most devs are atm, they have no fuckin clue haha