A very very senior game developer recently told me how he is changing specialization because AI is much better than him at what he does already.
I asked him if it was just the speed and mass of code, to which he replied that Claude 5 Fable/Mythos is just so advanced, it comes up with solutions he would never have thought of, not even requiring good prompts anymore.
He further said in some areas like Unity it’s not perfect yet, but improving drastically.
Honestly this is pretty different to what I read in many articles regarding AI code.
They mentioned errors, bad performance & such.
However if it is already used in production and he as a professional evaluating it, is saying it’s better than him…
That same day I also talked to somebody that got hired to train an LLM. His interview was with that companies chatbot, that offered him over 120$ per hour, a roughly 500% increase from his previous job 🤣
Interesting take, much of this I have not considered before and can certainly see your logic. The team code vs individual code might certainly offer the explanation. He is now moving into software architecture he said. As AI is not really creative, it might be much easier to compete with it - in that field.