My worry is when they're looking at speed, coming from an AI background with other people at the top who have AI backgrounds, their answer is going to be, well, if you can't do it this fast, you just need to use AI.

Like, you just need to use AI.

Like, that's something that I genuinely worry about for a number of reasons that I don't think we necessarily need to get into here.

But part of that worry is like, you know, I was just in an interview with the coalition.

It was a group interview, but someone asked like, hey, was there any AI in E-Day?

And they were so proud to say like, no, no, we have fantastic concept artists.

Like our art book is going to be awesome.

Like, it is just such an easy answer for them.

And I worry that that choice for studios to be able to make games without AI is going to get, like, diminished because of these mandates to move faster.

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