I would claim it’s only a step in the right direction for someone if they will actually start doing something social. It’s not enough that there is more opportunity to if you never actually do it…

Not everyones ideal life is to at all times be alone.

To me this highlights that many single men have problems with loneliness.

Well they could also use it for trying to get what kind of sources the agency has… That and to be able to lean even more on to the far rights persecution complex…

Though I do hope you are more correct than me here…

I wasn’t trying to say you can’t do remote development what I was trying to say was it’s not a good way for the whole industry. That and pointing out drawbacks of full remote.

The fact that you have such strict separation between programmers and designers leads me to believe your company hires a lot of people they don’t need to do jobs in a poor manner. I have very little respect for people who ‘design’ but can’t create.

This is the weirdest take I’ve read in a while… Thinking designers doesn’t create anything is just so wrong… And I’m not just talking about creating designs but also creating prototypes using components and e.g. unreal blueprints… Let’s not forget about taking the time to properly tweak values and all that…

I’m not going to share what games I’ve worked on as I like to have at least a faint divide between my online persona and real life one.

As a gameplay programmer I fully disagree. Just the ability to quickly ask a designer near you for clarifications or to if modifying the design slightly to save on time is worth soo much.

Asking over slack just isn’t the same as it adds more friction, takes longer, and makes it easier for misunderstandings to sneak in.

To be fair though it can be worth sometimes working from home to give you less distractions if you need some full focus time… And other jobs in the industry does gain a lot more from being fully remote…

There is also the angle of generated CSAM looking real adding difficulty in prosecuting real CSAM producers.

Machine learning and LLMs isn’t the only way to do AI though. (though your second point I do kinda agree with)

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Say that to the library of Alexandria.

Technically it does have collective agreements just not with the company I work for.

A union, at least in Sweden, isn’t tied to a place of work so me working somewhere they don’t have a collective agreement isn’t that odd. Now it does mean I don’t get as much out of my membership but I still do gain some things. Like if my employer screws me over the union is there to help me and fight for me in court if need be. There are also some extra protections like if there is a layoff the company will need to negotiate and justify why I, or anyone else in my union, should be the one to loose their job.

Never actually worked at a place with a collective agreement… But then again AFAIK they aren’t that common within software or gamedev…

(Edit: still part of a union though)

Anything that looks realistic should be illegal if you ask me as otherwise it would become harder to prosecuting real child porn. “Oh that picture is just modified with AI” could be hard to dissprove…