A lot of hate in the comments but IMO this is one of the few things that LLMs are actually really good for. It’s a shit job nobody wants to do that LLMs are really good at. Notice that they said 70% and not 100%. Yeah that means they’re probably going to have 30 people doing the work that 100 people used to do but people are still in the picture overseeing things. Automation isn’t, by itself, bad. The bad part is that our whole society is built on the idea that your entire value as a person is based on being able to work and make money and job loss is way worse than it should be.
Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027
Submitted 4 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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markovs_gun@lemmy.world 4 months ago
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
70% by what metric?
Is that going by bugs identified, fixes implemented, headcount?
kaiyo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So their games will cost 70% less right?
sirico@feddit.uk 4 months ago
It’s your funeral
termaxima@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Be prepared for Square Enix games to fail even EA’s QA standards in the near future 😅
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Moment for silence for David “Ribs” Carillo 🪦
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
So… im a big supporter of squeezing, buy everything they make… but this tells me the quality of their games is going to go down the toilet. Knowing AI it’ll come up with fake lists of bugs that didn’t happen and all the real bugs will not be listed and they’ll release the buggies shit. One thing I LIKE about square, being one of the few companies I do pre-orders from still, is that their products are fairly bug free on launch FFXVI had some graphics optimization issues, but I’ve been happy with most of what I got the past few years.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 months ago
FFXIV saved them and they don’t ever put any money back into the game. It’s their cash cow that pays for all their other bad ideas.
Great graphics and legacy. But some crappy ideas about what the players want.
Look at their payment systems for subs. It’s so confusing for no damn reason.
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Believe it or not FFXI was even MORE confusing to sub
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I will continue ignoring anything they make
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh. Gross.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Well their goes FFXIV, that will be their end
bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Chrono Trigger remake, first all AI development, because we live in the bad timeline.
webp@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Their games going to be shit 🤣
boaratio@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Remember when square used to make great games?
Ashiette@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That was Squaresoft, not Square Enix.
boaratio@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My memory failed me. Thanks for the correction.
nik9000@programming.dev 4 months ago
I loved Enix’s Ogre Battle and Square’s Final Fantasy 6 and 7. How could putting the companies together make a bad?!
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Square Ewwwwnix
Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
it’s a bit late in the game to be making idiotic claims but I guess the default state for corpos is being out of touch
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 4 months ago
I’m just shocked any publisher is still doing QA at all, with the state AAA games release in these days.
III@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s why they want 70% QA from AI. Because right now their games are only 10% QA tested.
other_cat@piefed.zip 4 months ago
Was gonna make a post with this article but this is related so I’ll drop it here instead.
“Square Enix is laying off more developers in the UK and US as it refocuses on Japan
The publisher has expressed interest in replacing development roles with AI”MrNesser@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not buying their next game it will be a nightmare
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A year from now they’ll be wondering why their games are so buggy.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 4 months ago
“The players are obviously insane and confused. The AI is always right.”
Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Realistic goal considering they already do so little QA.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lol. Good luck!
VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 4 months ago
QA annnnd Debugging?
LLMs have a much better chance at succesfuly replacing whoever said that.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
the LLMs can barely make fucking working code, let alone test it
Flickerby@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
And I thought I had no more disappointment left to allocate
pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s just that you’ve reached your free quota, further disappointments will be charged 0.0937 emotional stability per hour
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
So… no more SE games for me. Not a huge loss to be honest.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Sure
Tronn4@lemmy.world 4 months ago
insert plane crashing.gif
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Well, good luck with that. Software development is a shit show already anyway. You can find me in my Gardening business in 2027.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 months ago
Good Luck. When the economy finally bottoms out the first budget to go is always the gardening budget.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
That is a valid point, and I think i’ll preemptively pivot to woodworking.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Market gardening isn’t so bad, people gotta eat. But yeah, if you’re cutting lawns you’re going to suffer when the economy shits the bed.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
dont they already have dumbbots in playtesting?
frongt@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
The Talos Principle certainly did in 2014.
Taldan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So Square Enix is demanding OpenAI stop using their content, but is 100% okay using AI built off stolen content to make more money themselves
As a developer, it bothers me that my code is being used to train AI that Square Enix is using while trying to deny anyone else the ability to use their work
I could go either way on whether or not AI should be able to train on available data, but no one should get to have it both ways
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 4 months ago
🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️ I came to this 🧵 to make this exact ridicule.
Capitalists really showing their true colors when it comes to self-indulgence.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
In my country we say ajajajajajjjj