These archetypes are bogus. Doesn’t matter what your background is. The real divide is between those with an insatiable curiosity about how everything works and those who just learn whatever is necessary to do the job.
All you need to *kind of* simulate a 30 year old game with AI is the finished game and a TPU that conducts 100,000 times more calculations per second than the original hardware. People run this game on washing machines and pregnancy tests, I'm really not impressed.