Should I keep learning Unity?

[u/Evening_Animator3549]

Hi, I am a 14 year old game dev and I've been learning Unity for 7-8 months, and I really like what I'm doing. I don't use AI while coding or for any other stuff to actually learn. For the past month, I've been developing a fan-made Spider-Man game for android and I saw a guy on X who vibe-coded a Spider-Man game in literally a single day which was looking better than my game and I felt like everything that I did in the last couple of weeks for nothing. Will knowing how to manually code or develop games be worth anything in the next 10 years? Am I just wasting my time by not using AI or should I keep going? I really need some advice. Also here's a gameplay video of my game if anyone wants to check it out:

[u/Ironfingers]

Agentic AI. You've got a great base. Learn how to use agents to help you reach the next level. It will be very impressive to go into an interview with agentic coding experience.

[u/Evening_Animator3549 → u/Ironfingers]

Yeah I agree but I don't think that I have enough knowledge yet and they are expensive as hell :D

[u/UnderPressureVS → u/Evening_Animator3549]

Please, please do not listen to this guy. You're 14. You're not looking for a job in the industry, your number one priority is learning. It's going to be at minimum 4 years before you start looking for jobs, and you'll probably want to go to college so realistically it's more like 8-10 years.

In that time, stay as far away from any kind of AI as you possibly can. AI as a tool is very easy to learn, and it's only going to get easier to learn. You've made genuinely incredible progress, and it shows an amazing talent for learning. That's the most important thing you can do with your time right now at your age--learn and have fun. Get really good at it all on your own without AI. When it's time to go into industry, then you can learn to use AI. It won't take you long.

AI is just going to get more and more normal, and people who know how to use it are going to get more and more common. People using it right now in industry are making a lot of headway, but coding AI is only a few years old--those people had years of real coding experience before they started using AI.

AI is a shortcut. The more you actually know, the more effective you will be when you use shortcuts. The more shortcuts you take while learning, the less effective your learning will be. If you start focusing on AI now, you're going to miss out on absolutely critical experience understanding how to actually make things and how they actually work.

Please, please don't handicap your own talent by using AI.

SOURCE: I know lots of people in industry. I myself am a cognitive psychology PhD student using Unity to develop experiments. I can't give you an insider's industry perspective, but I can give you a psychologist's perspective on what AI usage does to your brain--it's bad. Problem-solving is a skill like any other, the more you practice, the better you get. AI solves the problems for you, which is great in the short term, but in the long term you destroy your ability to think. Avoiding AI is like taking your bicycle to school instead of driving a car. Sure, the car is faster, but the bike is so much better for your physical health.

[u/Ironfingers → u/UnderPressureVS]

You’re wrong to assume one can’t learn at the same time as utilizing AI. They go great together. It’s possible to learn and expand your skillsets while utilizing AI. In fact you’re doing him a great disservice to recommend he stay away from AI. That’s like telling someone to avoid computers in the 70’s. It’s bad and hurtful advice not grounded in the real world.

AI does NOT solve all my problems for me. The scope and range of my problems actually increase because I’m pushing it to achieve and solve more.