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My “Rally Adventure” one-shot game, made with Opus 5 medium thinking

TL;DR: I gave Claude Opus a single prompt asking for an off-road driving game with a retro Screamer Rally look, and let it fan out sub-agents. A few hours later I had Rally Adventure: Three.js, TypeScript and Rapier, every texture and every sound generated in code. After seeing the tweet by Jake Verbaten on his fire truck game I’ve decided to give it a try. This is the prompt, strongly inspired by…

Agency must stay with humans: AI velocity risks outpacing programmers’ understanding

TL;DR: As AI evolves from writing syntax to autonomous planning, the sheer quantity of generated code is outpacing our ability to comprehend it. We are moving from creators to curators, risking a future where human agency is sacrificed for speed.

How Nx “pulled the rug” on us, a potential solution and lessons learned

TL;DR: Nx deprecated custom task runners. I built portable-nx-cache, a MIT licensed drop-in Go binary that provides remote caching via your CI’s filesystem cache. One of my responsibilities at my current job is maintaining a decently-sized monorepo housing hundreds of Node.js libraries and applications. For a repository of this size, it’s handy to have a set of build tools that support, among…

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