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Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

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358 points maloga | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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deadbabe ◴[24 Aug 25 16:31 UTC] No.45005551[source]▶
A developer who can build a game by hand in 24 hours could probably build and publish something very polished and professional on Steam within 3 days using LLMs, which leads to some kind of software Fermi paradox: where are all the games??
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1. maloga ◴[24 Aug 25 19:02 UTC] No.45006740[source]▶
I think the reason is because you have to pay a non-negligible amount of money per game you publish, and most don't expect to make that back. In my case, making money wasn't my goal, as I explain in the article.