Hopefully this will cause the software and game development industry to optimize their programs as intensly as they did 30 years ago. I assume that upper management types have largely forgotten the value of having a quality product, and that subsequently the time allowed for QA and optimization has shrunk in order to ship the product quicker. The ease of patching has made it worse. Hoping to see some more competent coding in the future.
There’s also a heavy push towards AI supported development, so I would expect a lot of code to get a lot worse.
There’s a massive skill erosion in the industry going on currently, at least in the (AAA) company I work in. We’ve just switched from agile/sprints to “AI-native <something>”, which is a SDLC model that, at least from how I looked into it, doesn’t make any sense but “AI go brrrr”.
It sucks.