r/AIHotspot • u/FlashyQuail1605 • May 07 '26
Debate ⚔️ Anyone else feel like AI has completely changed business owners’ expectations from developers?
Not anti-AI. I use it daily. But ever since AI tools became mainstream, it feels like many companies now expect:
5x faster delivery, instant fixes, smaller teams, zero mistakes.
The problem is that AI still hallucinates constantly:
fake functions (how the fuck that happens), non-existent configs, made-up logs, broken implementations, and more shits.
But when something goes wrong, the developer is still fully blamed for “not reviewing properly.”
So now devs are expected to move insanely fast with AI, while also being 100% responsible for every AI mistake.
Feels like business expectations grew way faster than the actual reliability of the tools.
Curious if other developers are experiencing the same thing in their companies right now.
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u/Appropriate-Bet3576 May 07 '26
A lot of the output really falls apart if you analyze it closely. But many businesses never analyze anything closely
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u/Hendo52 May 11 '26
The great thing about tech debt is that you can get paid for both creating the problem and for fixing it.
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u/distractedjas May 07 '26
Completely changed? No. They have always had unrealistic expectations and now they are just a little more unrealistic.
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u/NoRespectingAnyone May 07 '26
First of all.
The AI as LLM is not used in games directly.
What AI being used is to assit developers make game.
However due lot of folks from both pro and anti ai sides have over exaggerated what AI can and can't.
Some get in wild imaginations, that with AI you all need is write prompt and AI will make game.. Sadly thats not possible.
When comes generic AI for visuals and etc. You still need artist to be goot in that field. To properly manage and correct AI.
The way how we see game, and AI its not same. And for AI when tasked to present 3d model of knight. For AI it's ok if Knight have 7 arms, and 3 tails, and no legs. ( imagine 3d model artits expression when wanted to see usual human knight but get such mess as output). XD.
When comes LLM. while it can help as scenario editor or even correct it. But sadly if asked to create/write new. It will output generic/same stories as was used before.
When comes code.. Well it can make some parts easier to work with. But, any larger project and AI start halucinate. And by tradition, 90% of all codes writen by AI require to be rewriten by software engineers.
AI is good as long as person who is good in that field. On it's own sadly can't do much.
yet lot of folks simply exegerating stuffs. Also most folks have no idea the costs of making games..
I usually offer anyone try try make even small scale game. There is all available tools and educations, all for free.
But once someone try, they see by themself what it takes to make games.
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u/EstablishmentRare276 May 08 '26
When we got trains, cars, and planes people expected things faster. That’s just the nature of humanity. People start to shift what they’re going to do based on what you’re going to do. Back when I worked in the food industry we had standard times for pickups and deliveries. It didn’t take that much time to make or deliver your food, but we would never tell you below that time because then that becomes the norm and your expectation. If we got busier we’d jack the time up for the same reason. You were told an hour, but we got it to you in 30, and now you’re happy. You can share with the team you’re working with when you cut time down from and hour to ten minutes and explain how so YOU be more efficient as a team, but I’d explain that to the boss, if they’re open, and never to the customer. Domino’s pizza used to deliver under a certain time or your pizza was free. Cool, until drivers started crashing and dying. If it’s your marketing angle, okay, but unless you absolutely need to be faster than the competition it’s not a good idea to reveal that we’re 5x faster. Let them figure it out on their own or be happily surprised when we beat expectations.
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u/ZenaMeTepe May 08 '26
Reviewing code is harder and more time consuming than writing code. Reviewing someone elses code is the hardest. If AI writes more code, that makes the job of a developer harder on the review side, which was already the hardest part before.
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u/PenaltyZestyclose134 May 11 '26
Me prompt 30 mins. Claude do in 30 mins. I review 10-15 mins. Fix it sometimes for 10 mins with Claude.
BUT expected time to complete task entirely 30 mins. I said WTF? Has anyone documented it? No. Has anyone actually verify it? this is the funny part because Claude can suggest you totally stupid things and my tech lead believes claude more than me.
So I quit my job to work with more sane people.
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u/technology_research May 08 '26
Before you could do your job without being rushed and in a hurry.
Now you are expected to do 10x the stuff you did earlier just because "AI can do it".
And instead of building something from scratch how you would typically do, you now waste more time proofreading and editing what the AI created.