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.

It's your funeral

Be prepared for Square Enix games to fail even EA's QA standards in the near future 😅

So their games will cost 70% less right?

Oh. Gross.

70% by what metric?

Is that going by bugs identified, fixes implemented, headcount?

Remember when square used to make great games?

So... im a big supporter of squeenix, 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.

Moment for silence for David "Ribs" Carillo 🪦

Chrono Trigger remake, first all AI development, because we live in the bad timeline.

Their games going to be shit 🤣

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

Ew, sounds like a great reason to not buy any Square Enix games...

I will continue ignoring anything they make

QA annnnd Debugging?

LLMs have a much better chance at succesfuly replacing whoever said that.

Realistic goal considering they already do so little QA.

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"

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/square-enix-is-laying-off-more-developers-in-the-uk-and-us-as-it-refocuses-on-japan-201907305.html

Well their goes FFXIV, that will be their end

Not buying their next game it will be a nightmare

That's a stupid idea. You're not supposed to QA or debug games. You just release it, customers report bugs, and then you promise to fix the bugs in the next patch (but don't).

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

Well, good luck with that. Software development is a shit show already anyway. You can find me in my Gardening business in 2027.

Literally not how any of this works. You don't let AI check your work, at best you use AI and check it's work, and at worst you have to do everything by hand anyway.

A year from now they'll be wondering why their games are so buggy.

Square Enix actually has a pretty sick automated QA already. There's a cool talk about how they did that for FFVII remake in GDC vault, and I highly recommend watching it, if you're at all interested in QA.

It has nothing to do with AI, it's just plain old automation, but they solve most of the issues you get with making automated tests in non-discrete 3D playspace and they do that in a pretty solid way. It's definitely something I'd love to have implemented in the games I'm working on, as someone who worked in QA and now works in development. Being able to have mostly reliable way how to smoke-test levels for basic gameplay without having to torture QA to run the test-case again is good, and allows QA to focus on something else - but the tools also need oversight, so it's not really a job lost. In summary - I think the talk is cool tech and worth the watch.

However, I don't think AI will help in this regard, and something as unreliable and random as AI models are not a good fit for this job. You want to have deterministic testcases that you can quanitfy, and if something doesn't match have an actual human to look at why. AI also probably won't be able to find clever corner-cases and bugs that need human ingenuity.

Fuck AI, I kind of hope this is just a marketing talk and they are actually just improving the (deterministic) tools they already have (which actually are AI by definition, since they also do level exploration on top of recorded inputs), and they are calling it an "AI" to satisfy investors/management without actually slapping a glorified chat-bot into the tech for no reason.

And I thought I had no more disappointment left to allocate

I hope they put out the last FF VII remake part before that, so i can finally start playing them all! I don't care what they want to waste their money on afterwards lol

So.. no more SE games for me. Not a huge loss to be honest.

Lol. Good luck!

Square Enix exec doesn't know what QA and Debugging entail.