How I Built and Shut Down an AI-Coded Sports Trivia Game

I’m not an engineer. I come from the sales world. But between June 18 and July 16, I pushed 172 commits to a side project called statback.

Most of those commits list an AI coding agent as co-author. 155 of them carry a “Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8” line. So this isn’t a story about me learning to code. It’s about what happens when you ship fast with an agent, and the bugs that show up when you do.

What it is

Statback is a daily sports trivia game. Every day you get a binder page of nine card backs: a 3x3 grid. The name is redacted. So are the birthplace and, at first, the team. You get the stat lines. Your job is to name the player.

Everyone gets the same board. Wordle and Immaculate Grid were the model. The product doc says so. There’s no timer. You get three...

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