More and more games seem to suck on thier own, but can be great with mods. You have entire platforms like roblox where all the games are more or less mods. How long until the platform itself is community created and managed and the viability of games created by companies dissappears?

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    I know the engines do that. But I mean even more. Like it could expand to the point that I could have a fully functional game just by adding some plugins. Not a great game. But something that was technically playable. I don’t think you can do that today. And as far as AI and testing. I am talking more mundane. Like say you already have good tests. But you just need to run them on additional hardware simulations or something. That is an edit it can do. Tweaking for that hardware and rerunning is also a pain. You could let it do that, then review the changed. That kind of stuff often requires digging through documentation and what not that can be very time consuming all for just one new peice of hardware. The AI can do that and iterate until things work. The dev just has to validate that the AI didn’t cheat to get a pass. For writing new test. Of course you can’t just tell it to make up tests. You have to dirdct it a lot. But once you tell it what you want it to test, it can write that, and interate on getting the test to work. It would be great if it was better at it than it is now. But I think over the next years it will get better. But I expect you still need to be the brains that tell it what to test. But also, if someone records a playthrough of a bug, you can probably tell it what the bug in the playthrough was, give it the playthrough and tell it to write a test. I’m not talking about expecting AI to do the real thinking. I am talking about it acting like a very junior dev that you can give well described tasks to, and like a reasearch assistant that can dig through large amounts of documention to get the information you need. Both of these things dev probably don’t generally enjoy doing.