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Candy Crush developers at King who are caught up in Microsoft's recent mass layoff are being replaced by the AI tools they were told to build

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[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They were given a shovel and told to dig their own graves.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They invented a brand new shovel that will swallow humankind. Poor things.

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If anyone is asking, I'll be offering $300/hr software development services to fix AI generated code.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Rewriting the entire code base from scratch?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

This isn't a problem, because the profits of said AI tools go to the original developers. Right? RIGHT?