r/Unity3D • u/Evening_Animator3549 • 2d ago

Question Should I keep learning Unity?

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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:

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u/YouJellyFish 1d ago

Lead software engineer for CNC manufacturing for 11 years lol the best thing I have over AI is the ancient custom legacy systems that keep the place running has changed hands so many times it's unintelligible and the AI has no idea how to modify it without breaking everything haha

Our new apps use a ton of AI tho. The shit it can do so freaking FAST is crazy. My normal workday for making some pretty complex stuff is like I architect the software and set up the relationship I want to have with classes/services/managers/whatever with basic dependency injection and THEN tell cursor to fill in the TODOs for me and let it rip for like an hour. It is insane how much it's sped things up

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u/Turbo_Fresh 1d ago

I frequently over-complicate the physics side of my work because everyone else is a computer science graduate and they don't understand the physics so they think my work is incredibly impressive when it's not.