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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: 0.244s | 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. rustystump ◴[24 Aug 25 19:25 UTC] No.45006927[source]▶
This is because LLMs are not good enough. Seriously, the bottle neck is still code, art, sound, etc.

There are a bunch of games made using heavy gen ai but it is usually for art and dialogue. Most players can tell quickly and drop the game. Games are fundamentally creative things and most interesting art work was not done in 5s with a prompt.