Microsoft's cuts are allegedly not concerned with anything beyond the company wanting to get ahead, and stay ahead, in the AI race. Now, this report from MobileGamer.biz shows the inevitable endgame that every bean counter pushing AI and generative AI tools has in mind, being put into practice. That every part of the job they currently pay people to do can be replaced by an AI tool.
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Talk about literally digging your own grave
Cue the angry moms posting first time on Reddit because Candy Crush is now trash
Hope they managed to quietly sabotage it intentionally. If not then lmao good riddance.
This is the end goal for why these companies are chasing AI to begin with. I don’t know why anyone thought differently. I also don’t know what these companies expect to happen when everyone is broke and jobless and can’t buy anything, but capitalists aren’t known for being able to think long term.
Training the new hire before we let you go is far too common
Microsoft wants these microtransaction filled or subscription based games so they can run them for the cost of basically nothing while they milk the consumer for all their worth.
If there is a game that needs to be replaced by AI and then driven to the ground it’s this.
This is literally Farmville boomer micro trans central.
So who’s controlling the ai?
-Lays off a massive amount of staff
-Gets a massive amount of backlash
-Continues to lay off staff for AI.
This isn’t shocking and will probably become the norm for these type of derivative mobile games. They’re all formulaic, mathematically generated, slop fests that – once you have the base code in – you can just auto-generate levels over time and/or re-skin existing code to make a “new game”.
They’ve already been doing it with low-level developers in China and India, this is just the next iteration of that.
*”The only winning move is not to play”*
Training ones replacement is nothing new in these kinds of companies.
If you are using AI tools, you are quite literally fucking yourself so that Microsoft can benefit.
If you are going to use AI tools, the best thing you can do is to sabotage their efficacy every time you use it.
Candy Crush was fun for a while, but then you have to make 10 clicks just to do a fucking map, that is terrible design!
Did anyone actually watch Terminator?
If you haven’t seen the video about 2027 and AI I highly recommend viewing it. This is just the start.
We’ll be hearing a lot more of this soon.
I get it but having “made generative AI that replaced my job” on the resume seems like a sure fire way to get hired at any greedy corp.
How dystopian.
Things like this are the reason I hope the AI bubble will burst and drag these companies down with it. People are replaceable? Well companies are too.
AI to build the games and then users probably have AI/Automation to play the games.
The winners here are advertisers.
I had literally the exact same thing happen to me all the way back in 2013. Got hired by a company to join a new department they were making at the beginning of the summer, all of us new hires would be essentially testing this new software the company had developed. What we found out when we all randomly got laid off three months later was that we were actually providing training data so that the program could be automated; it churned out more than our department would ever be capable of. Corporations will do whatever it takes to save a buck while making a hundred more.
These top guys are not worried about backlash again. It is becoming common for them to lay off staff for the AI tools these same staff have helped build. Real sad situation for the devs who must have done so much to help the studio grow.
All fun and games for the higher ups until the AI secretly builds a physical body for itself, walks into their offices, and says “Candy Crush this” before smushing them together until they burst.
Now let me guess… everyone is suddenly a candy crush fan lol.
😂😂
Years of pent up Microsoft anger where people use Edge to download Chrome. Now they are using coders to create AI in retaliation
Seriously, how much profit do they need?
*Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!*
The market will decide the most effective blend of ai and human work. Freaky for us cause it’s unknown to what extent, and mankind’s greatest fear is the unknown.
“Whatever comes, face it on your feet.” – Lan
that’s a common thing in a lot of workplaces, not with AI previously but
if you were ever asked to train new people to do your job specifically, you were at a high chance of being fired lol
train people to do your job, only for the company to pay the people you just trained less than they paid you then let you go
Well, time to uninstall Candycrush.
…one more level though, I’m just so so close
Knowing that Candy Crush stole the game from some guy that was using it to pay for his mother’s cancer treatment, good riddance.
The ultimate “congratulations, you played yourself” moment. Build the thing that makes you obsolete classic corporate move.
Burn it all down
To be fair it’not like we can vote with our wallets anyway , I mean who has ever bought a copy of windows ever ?
The thing is, Msft tells you very convincingly that these tools are only used to make your development life easier, not to replace you. They say that is never their goal. They simply want to enhance our lives with AI. If you believe them though, I’ve got some waterfront property to sell you.
Source: used to work for Microsoft.
Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of your actions.
That’s some black mirror shit.
I wish we could get AI to solve world hunger or clean up the ocean instead of just exacerbating homelessness.
Says a lot about the quality of Candy Crush that AI can do your job and no one would have noticed without a headline like this
Man Inwould sabotage the shitnout if that AI before I keft. Sure I would end up end jail, but fuck em