LLMs are now essential tools in development — they’ve effectively replaced traditional search.
I built my game from the ground up. I chose the tech stack myself, created all the UI components from scratch, and optimized everything for performance. My UI runs faster than most modern React apps — because I’ve been building software for over 20 years and witnessed the evolution of web technologies firsthand.
This is not a game cobbled together from boilerplate or template code. I made it myself. Yes, I used LLMs — every day, and a lot. Just like I use Google. Just like I read books. Just like I talk to real people to learn and improve.
The current “AI-generated code” category is misleading. It needs to be updated. Don’t devalue human effort just because modern tools are part of the process. My game is 99% human-made.
If that tag is required, maybe also add tags like “No Google”, “No Stack Overflow”, or “No Learning” — because that’s the level of gatekeeping it implies.
I wrote this reply myself, but used an LLM to help refine the text. These are still my thoughts — I just made them more readable. I also wrote the game’s documentation this way.
Does that really make my game “AI-generated”?