What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
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- AI models can now reverse engineer and port decades-old games to modern browsers in days, with the human role shifting from coder to bot herder providing intent and taste.
- The transformer is commoditizing deep knowledge work, making skills that took years to acquire instantly replicable, threatening the knowledge economy and IP protections.
- The game industry faces a commoditization tsunami where AI-generated content floods attention markets, benefiting platform giants while marginalizing traditional creators.