ChatGPT coded a game for me in seconds and I am simply astounded – and coders should be very worried

ChatGPT just stunned me. Almost two years after I first asked an early version of the generative AI chatbot to help me code a game, I returned to ChatGPT 4o with the exact same prompt, and the results blew me away.

Ever since OpenAI's generative AI platform arrived, people have been turning to it to handle tasks they'd rather not do or, in some cases, to attempt things even they're not capable of. I can write, so I usually don't ask ChatGPT to compose prose, and I'm an OK artist so I only use generative image creation for entertainment. However, I am not a programmer. I've done some HTML, Javascript, and even BASIC coding in the past, but my skills are beyond rusty; they're calcified.

I wrote last year about asking ChatGPT to help me build a new game called Tic-Tac-Go. It's ...