Earlier this year, I decided to give AI coding a go. In general, my emotional reaction to doing so was “anger and frustration”, but I found if I used it carefully it sped up what I was doing. It ate at me because all the ethical arguments against using it were strong. Yet, well, indie game dev is a brutal industry that’s only getting harder, I was feeling dispirited, and doing largely solo dev meant that if I could speed up some aspects of what I do… I should at least consider it.