Hobbyist

The Future of Game Development Isn’t Code. It’s Taste.

📅 August 3, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A hobbyist developer built a complete game using AI without writing any code. The experience reveals a profound shift: the bottleneck in game development is no longer coding ability, but creative vision. As AI handles technical execution, the future of indie games will be defined by taste and prompt engineering, not programming skills. The new gatekeepers are those who can clearly describe what they want.

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I Cloned Every OS Project on Reddit. The Result Terrified Me.

📅 August 3, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

After cloning over a thousand OS projects from r/osdev, the author found only five that were written by humans. The rest were AI-generated illusions. This article explores how AI is not just replacing professional jobs but destroying the grassroots hobbyist spaces where real learning happens—and why even the author couldn’t escape the irony of using AI imagery to tell the story.

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