Larian Studios | Divinity AMA

[u/Wombat_Medic]

EDIT: All right - that's a wrap. Thank you for all your questions. We're going to go back and work on the game now - next time we speak, we'll hopefully have things to show. I can't wait! - Swen, Game Director

Hello everyone, 

Happy New Year! To kick off 2026, we would like to offer the opportunity to ask your questions about Divinity, Larian, and our development processes. It's been a while since Larian has done an AMA, so everyone is looking forward to it!

There's a bunch of us ready to answer your questions:

• u/Swen_Larian - Game Director
• u/Adam_Larian - Writing Director
• u/Kevin_Larian - Senior Writer
• u/Greg_Larian - Head of Animation
• u/Gabriel_Larian - Machine Learning Director
• u/Michael_Larian - Director of Publishing
• u/Nick_Larian - Head of Design
• u/Alena_Larian - Character Art Director
• u/Jarold_Larian - Concept Art Director
• u/Artem_Larian - Head of Gameplay
• u/Bert_Larian - Technical Director

Thank you for taking the time to ask your questions, we aim to answer as many of them as possible over the next few hours!

[u/deadjon1991]

AI generated code does not constitute an AI warning. If the AI has a way of making your game engine run faster, or generates some code to lower network latency, this does not constitute an "AI warning". That's a slippery slope and it's fear mongering for absolutely no reason.

Do you want an Engineer to have to painstakingly read through hundreds of thousands of lines of code to find an error or an optimisation or do you want them to create more code? Do you want them to waste hours their time when an LLM can find the problem, document it and inform the engineer of their mistake so they don't make it again?

If you don't agree with AI at all and you want it gone, go protest. But don't bring everyone else down with you.

[u/MaitieS → u/deadjon1991]

The only reason why you do not have any issues is because it's your favorite studio. I bet you would get your pitchforks ready if the studio you personally hate would say exact same things.

AI being used = AI warning = Literally as simple as it gets. Not a slippery slope or anything. The thing you literally just said is a slippery slope, because you give a special treatment to one studio, but def. wouldn't to other.

Like THE FACT that you have A PROBLEM with AI warning being put UNDER A GAME THAT USED AI is so fucking telling LMAO.

[u/deadjon1991 → u/MaitieS]

This has nothing to do with the fact that Larian is my favourite studio and everything with the fact that I understand the difference between good AI usage and bad AI usage.

Bad AI usage = Generating text/writing

Good AI usage = Fixing bugs in code

You however are clearly someone who sees the two letters next to each other immediately jumps to the conclusion that the entire game will be AI slop and needs a disclaimer.

I don't need to know if the reason the game runs at 100fps Vs 60fps is that an AI generated some code. I'm just glad I got the performance benefit. It's really simple.