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points by david2ndaccount 1 day ago | 0 comments

Counter point: a buddy of mine who doesn’t know how to program has been vibe-coding a video game for the last month. He got very excited early on with what he thought was quick progress, but it’s been a month and he still doesn’t have anything approaching a game or even what he wants.

[–] simonw 1 day ago

Do you know which models he's using?

My hunch is he's not using Claude Opus 5.5.

[–] vconnor 1 day ago

This answer makes me smile, it’s so naive.

Making a fun, polished game, and not just a quick prototype to post screenshots of on social media, is not just about choosing the right LLM model and telling it ‘make a fun game’

[–] simonw 1 day ago

That's the whole point of my post: as of Claude Opus 5.5, saying "make a fun game" actually works.

I was as surprised as you are.

[–] vconnor 1 day ago

I guess fun truly is subjective.

[–] andersmurphy 1 day ago

IKEA effect?

[–] trashface 1 day ago

Still sounds like progress, in the before times it used to take _years_ to get to that point.