I want to be clear that I used to have a similar mindset; I came around to the idea that if I’m a game dev (or any other type of creativity), and I’m looking for speedy shortcuts, I’m doing myself a disservice in two ways:

• I’m not learning the necessary skills to improve my craft. It’s vibe coding in a different shirt, and skipping the struggle is skipping the parts that make me better.
• I’m missing the forest for the trees. Extra details don’t make something better, and just because AI can do what I don’t want to do doesn’t mean that thing is worth doing. If I’m so disinterested in creating <insert thing>, why am I outsourcing it to a robot that doesn’t actually understand my art? Out of everyone, a dev should be the most interested in the details, and if it’s so unimportant that a robot can put in whatever, the end user likely wouldn’t have cared in the first place.

I agree that it’s a tool, and I agree that we aren’t likely to see eye to eye on this, but at the end of the day, I am wholly convinced that this tool is being used in the wrong place and in the wrong way. It doesn’t belong in creative endeavors.

I’m cool with you saying your final word on the matter, but I think we’ve beat this topic to death. You’ve been very courteous, and I appreciate that. Take care.