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Dwarf Fortress Creator Tarn Adams at Gamescom 2026: 'Everyone I Know, Their Bosses Are Slowly Getting Psychosis'
In a Gamescom 2026 interview, Adams described the games industry as in shambles over the combination of generative AI and layoff-driven management, characterizing the executive plan as "trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game, and then everyone else somehow buys it without a job." His specific complaint is that AI mimics creative work badly enough that practitioners can see it, while executives reading the same output conclude their staff are replaceable. It extends his 2024 GDC criticism of layoffs as driven by "greedy, greedy people," now with AI as the stated justification rather than a separate trend.
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