30-Year Veteran: AI Makes Development 5x Faster, But Leaves No Sense of Achievement and a Junior Talent Gap

A studio owner with 30 years of software development experience, 10 of them using Unity, posted that AI has caught up with Unity development, boosting speed 5x without quality loss, but listed eight downsides including no sense of achievement, a cliff-like revenue drop, and shutting down within a month if AI use stopped. Other developers replied that coding is no longer tiring, yet people are left with the most mentally draining top-level design and architecture decisions all day. Some also questioned the 5x claim, noting that study after study has failed to reproduce results close to that number.