How are you actually using AI day-to-day?
Hey everyone,
I'm an engineering manager with a strong coding background, and I lean on AI heavily for web and mobile development, it's become a core part of my daily workflow there.
Outside of work, I'm also a huge gamer, and I've always wanted to get into game development. The problem: every time I've tried to learn it, I burn out and quit after 10-20 hours.
Recently I gave it another shot using Claude Code + Unity MCP, hoping AI could help me push past that wall the way it does in my day job. It didn't really work out. Writing the actual game logic with AI felt fine, but managing everything inside the engine scenes, prefabs, the editor state, all the stuff that isn't just "code", turned into a mess pretty quickly.
So I'm curious: how are you all using AI in your daily dev work, especially in game development? Coding with AI that's clearly figured out. It's the engine-management side that's kicking my ass. Any tools, workflows, or approaches you'd recommend?
Edit: If you are down voting because of AI, I have terrible terrible news for you.
Edit 2: I get that a lot of you, maybe most, aren't professional game devs and haven't made a dime from it. Many probably haven't used much beyond ChatGPT's basic interface, haven't paid $200+/month for AI, and haven't touched Claude Code or built the integrations needed to get the most out of it. I think that unfamiliarity is what's driving the skepticism, but don't be afraid of it. Embrace AI and it'll boost your productivity and maybe maybe if you adopt it, you won't be obsolete.