Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 01, 2026, 1:13 PM UTC

hansmayer wrote: post #76

ogig wrote: post #7

My most abandoned type of projects are video games. I have a folder with tens of abandoned projects, I re-frame them as experiments at that point. This last week I decided to give Claude a go at one of these, and it's been a blast, it picked up the general path immediately. Since I said to CC they were abandon projects, he explicitly pushed into "lets have V0 game play loop finished, then we can compound and have fun…

> he explicitly pushed into "lets have V0 game play loop finished, > he even helped me build the lore. These have been one of the most fun times using a computer in a long time. Such a warm, touching story about a friendship between a grown up man and his neural network. But at least I had a good, roaring laugh reading this nonsense, thank you for that!