Looking at YouTube Unity tutorials, it looks like you could just straight up make your own Pac-Man in a few hours with the benefit that you could actually control and understand what the fuck is going on at each step of the way. It would also probably be a comparable but slightly higher amount of time in SDL, Raylib, PyGame, or other game-related libraries that don't provide as much hand-holding.
This reminds me of the fad of creating Twitter/Reddit/Hacker News clones in 15 minutes in some new web framework back in the 2000s/2010s. And of course none of the 15 minute Twitter clones actually have the hybrid fan-out architecture that Twitter wrote after a few years so that it wouldn't failwhale all the time. I'd love to see someone vibe code their way through that.
What I don't understand is that the same people who embrace long hours, grinding, and having secret founder DNA sauce also want to completely take their hands off the wheel and vibe code their way to financial freedom.
Note that just turning on Copilot/some other assistant and having it do code suggestions is fine in the sense of surrendering far less control over architecture and correctness and is something I do at work to cut down on boilerplate. So I think there is a spectrum from micro-AI assistance to macro-AI vibe coding. For instance, you could ask the chat bot to help you implement specific parts of the app, like using Djikstra's algorithm for pathfinding for the AI, without just asking it to make the entire app.
This reminds me of the fad of creating Twitter/Reddit/Hacker News clones in 15 minutes in some new web framework back in the 2000s/2010s. And of course none of the 15 minute Twitter clones actually have the hybrid fan-out architecture that Twitter wrote after a few years so that it wouldn't failwhale all the time. I'd love to see someone vibe code their way through that.
What I don't understand is that the same people who embrace long hours, grinding, and having secret founder DNA sauce also want to completely take their hands off the wheel and vibe code their way to financial freedom.
Note that just turning on Copilot/some other assistant and having it do code suggestions is fine in the sense of surrendering far less control over architecture and correctness and is something I do at work to cut down on boilerplate. So I think there is a spectrum from micro-AI assistance to macro-AI vibe coding. For instance, you could ask the chat bot to help you implement specific parts of the app, like using Djikstra's algorithm for pathfinding for the AI, without just asking it to make the entire app.