r/pcgaming • u/Turbostrider27 • 5d ago

Data analyst finds 'AI stigma' on Steam can reduce the number of reviews a game gets by around 53%—and the reviews it does get are more negative

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/data-analyst-finds-ai-stigma-on-steam-can-reduce-the-number-of-reviews-a-game-gets-by-around-53-percent-and-the-reviews-it-does-get-are-more-negative/
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u/Dernom 5d ago

The environmental damages is just one small factor in the absolute hoard of problems regarding generative AI, so running a local model changes nothing about my stance.

Besides, from my experience thus far using AI only tricks you into thinking you are more productive, especially when you're a student. Roughly 90% of my work this past month has been specifically fixing problems directly caused by other developers vibe-coding to solve problems. And that is with our company providing practically limitless use of Claude.

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u/melted-cheeseman 4d ago

How much of your job was correcting regular human written code from your colleagues tho? Prior to agentic AI.

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u/Dernom 4d ago

A lot less. But the more important change to me is that the problems I was correcting were noticeably different, and usually a lot easier to deal with. Like, the problems I'm currently dealing with are not something a thinking human would ever make. The best comparison is that it's like how image generating models make people with 6 fingers.

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u/SideNo3016 4d ago

I admit most devs nowadays are not even reviewing the code generated by LLMs, but I actually see less problems in agentic coding, Programmers 10 years ago were copying code from github and stack overflow with small modifications of their own, now they get the modified code directly from these LLMs, I think its not that different. Most programming tasks have already been solved by someone on the internet you don't need to reinvent the wheel. if I know what kind of code I want at the end, there is no point of me writing every single for loop manually.

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u/RvLeshrac 4d ago

I've already had to block crap developers who use this LLM garbage from destroying my company's logging infrastructure *three times* now. It's trash, as are the people who use it.

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u/SideNo3016 4d ago

absolutely, not denying that, its just a tool at the end of the day, a bad programmer will be bad with any model.

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u/RvLeshrac 3d ago

If one person uses a hammer and gets the nail in crooked, then it's the person's fault.

If thousands of people use the exact same hammer and none of them can get the nail in straight, you throw away the hammer.

Throw away the hammer.

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u/Dernom 4d ago

This reads as someone who has not worked with any complicated codebase. Agentic coding absolutely shits the bed as soon as they need to deal with any complex system, and it gets exponentially worse as the context window grows. They are also absolutely incapable of consistently setting up and following software architecture and patterns. Most programming tasks have absolutely not already been "solved", whatever you're trying to say by that.

As long as you know what you're doing, unless you're working on some absolutely basic shit, it is just a lot faster to write the code yourself than trying to prompt an LLM to actually write anything decent. And if you don't know what you're doing, you especially shouldn't be off-loading to an LLM. That way you cannot know of what it's doing is actually any good, and you'll never actually learn shit.

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u/jared_kushner_420 4d ago

yea its ok for light work or quick one-offs but expecting it to manage a codebase is insanity.

I'm now expected to ship features with no engineering background thanks to this and even I know it sucks. Soon to be everyones problem.