Friday Vibes: Vibe Coding a Hacker Game
The Idea
I’ve always wanted a game that made me feel like that cool hacker in all the best (worst) 90s movies. The guy who wore dark clothes and sunglasses, drank soda like it calmed his nerves, and typed furiously to save the world. There have been multiple attempts at this over the years but nothing ever stuck with me. In my head I’ve always had “the idea” but I’ve never had the time to put it to “paper” (or cpu). For the last two weeks, I set Claude to the task.
The Stack
Language/Framework: React
AI Tools Used: Claude (and ChatGPT when I ran out of Claude Free Messages)
Other Tools: good ol’ vim to deploy and do simple edits
Time Spent
Total: 2w (evenings, just writing prompts and deploying)
AI-Assisted: 95%
Manual: 5%
The Prompts & Process
AI can take a bit of hand-holding to get it right...
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