What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI

This article argues that AI is shifting software work from hands-on implementation to high-leverage orchestration: one engineer, using frontier and local models, can reverse engineer, port, and modernize legacy games in days rather than months. For CIOs, the strategic implication is that AI is rapidly compressing the cost and time of complex modernization, UI/asset generation, and reverse-engineering tasks, which could materially expand what internal IT teams can tackle without proportionate headcount growth. It also suggests IT organizations will need to redefine roles around intent, validation, and governance as AI increasingly handles coding, testing, and iterative build work.