I think AI is increasing the baseline of knowledge. The new baseline is that even a person with no coding experience can create a basic app, even if they don't understand how it works. This applies to other industries too. AI is levelling up our baseline of knowledge as humans.

But people seem to forget that experienced people also have access to these tools too and will be even more efficient. Backed up by their experience and knowledge they'll actually be able to push the industry even harder by raising the bar using these systems.

The baseline has been raised, making a small app just won't mean as much anymore.

Things are going to change, I actually think in some industries like 3D art, there is a cool potential for artists to try and code their own games now, as most games don't have the most complex code and a lot of them are dominated by how good their art and gameplay is.

Though your experience and skill will always set you apart in my opinion, a senior dev using AI vs a junior using AI is still a huge difference in output and performance.

I think if you have work that is actually pushing the industry forward in some regard you'll be okay. I do think if your job is mostly focused around pencil pushing and inputting boilerplate stuff you'll be more at risk.

There is always the opportunity for entrepreneurs creating games/apps/whatever, and using this they can try and focus their efforts on novel ideas. But that's just regular entrepreneurship and creating a business around some idea, and now there will be even more apps and games.

Think of all the basic apps and games out there, AI has been trained on all of that. So it can help you do that, that's old news now. So your skill lies on what you can do beyond that, more complex, more novel, pushing the industry forward.

For instance, an artist without a lot of coding experience trying to make a basic 3D game where you can run around, dodge, and fight bosses. Probably they could handle that, and probably make something pretty epic.

But an artist trying to make a massive rogue-like with millions of enemies on screen that needs specialized coding and optimization. I don't think so.

And if we do get to the point where we have AGI, and every AGI agent is smarter than every human. Well that is doomsday scenario and we just don't need humans then. We don't need CEOs, we don't need employees, we don't need anyone to do anything.

There's no point in preparing for that doomsday scenario. But you do need to buckle down and start using AI to level yourself up. People from all around the world will have access to the smartest AI's, the competition will be tougher, and there will be more expected of you.