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Comment by codesushi42 | Hacker News Reader

I thought I was the only one who laughed at this inconvenient truth!

If you don't care for coding, and you have no artistic talent, maybe the games industry isn't the right place for you.

That's a bit unfair. The person in the article was obviously passionate about the industry. nearly every game dev studio has some combination of project managers, salespeople, marketers, hr -- aka non-artists and non-coders who are still incredible valuable.

But not uniquely qualified or special.

Reality hurts.

Not very many programmers are uniquely qualified or special either.

Reality does hurt.

No, but they are more unique than the positions mentioned by OP.

Reality doesn't hurt too much for them.

But at least they can code. They qualify for coding work.

Programmers aren't uniquely qualified or special either. Your job could be replaced by a cheap guy in India or Russia in seconds. Or even a cheaper recent grad. Eventually, AI will do your job.

I agree that machines will probably write most of the software one day. I disagree that this will cause all "programming" jobs to disappear. I disagree vehemently that all programmers are fungible with "cheap guys in India or Russia". Over the last twenty five years, I've watched this industry expand to become the highest-paid industry outside of doctoring, lawyering, and banking, and the whole time, people said the job market was balanced precariously on the edge of collapse because of this imagined (and completely untrue) programmer fungibility with "cheap guys in India or Russia".

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