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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: 0s | source
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spicyusername ◴[25 Aug 25 01:26 UTC] No.45009353[source]▶

    I cloned the backend for Truco and gave Claude a long prompt explaining the rules of Escoba and asking it to refactor the code to implement it.
Definitely still incredible by 2019 standards. Absolutely no doubt.

But by LLM standards, feeding it the entire working codebase of a simple, similar, game you wrote by hand as context is basically doing all the work yourself still.

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1. sbinnee ◴[25 Aug 25 03:18 UTC] No.45009872[source]▶
Maybe that’s how we are supposed to work with current LLMs. Having a template or an example we understand is a big advantage. It can prevent LLM from many pitfalls, and more importantly we can easily review the output.