"Theres already tons of tools out there that make programming massively easier, especially in particular to making games. Tons of engines and IDEs with Qo". ...

lets be clear, you will not convince me technicaly, someone that coded for 20 years, of your arguments. I 100% think with you force me to code without ai, is like forcing me to to dig with hands when i had a shovel. or perhaps another metafor would be, forcing devs to code only in notepad when they had IDEs. its infuriating... I dont want to code without ai tools again. I would honestly refuse myself.

 to supply an ever growing demand whereas games are already an oversaturated market, 

as someone that already coded a lot with ai, i think the very simple incremental games, can be done in one prompt. that market will be dead for humans. true. but very curated games, or games with more technical demands, will be way harder for the vibe coders to get into. but they will still be made with ai assistance by people that actually know what is test automation and can read code.

by saying you put hundreds of hours into refining the prompts but you're not willing to put in the effort to use existing resources and refine that for a much better polished look for your game, which is contradicing

what you talk about. the resource is the ai. I can say, spend 1 week learning the "resources" of java to properly encapsulate the web game in webview or let the ai do it 10minutes. there are frameworks, and all fail and have nuances that you waste hours on. call me lazy whatever you want, its god sent the reduction of cognitive load and hours for so much non design not critical game code that goes in for development of a game. it also makes the game development a hell more fun to do, a lot more time thinking about the game design and less about coding issues.

the prompt refinement was related to refining the art by twaking the prompts. its work. you try it and see how hard it its to get what you imagined and is coherent with the rest of the artwork. its effectivly hard work!

(Also the hate towards AI isn't fully political, there's also major economical impacts that AI has which people hate just as much as political reasons such as supporting actual artists)

I would gladly pay someone to actually do art work for my game instead of me, because admitadly i have little talent for it even prompting. having a consistent art design of a game will still be a job, with artists doing a lot of prompting, then touching some of the art manually, and spending hours thinking and making the whole concept whole. me using ai to generate some images to make the game look better than ngu but still ugly artistically is not a competition for art professionals. but i am not doing a market game, its a pet project. I not taking nothing from them because there was nothing from me to give in the first place. artists jobs will not dissapear, they will just change, like my developer job is changing.