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Vibe Coding2026-08-06 · source-backed
From two images in a 2024 tweet plus one instruction ("Work independently, do not ask me to make any further design decisions... Commit and push as often as possible"), it built a playable 3D raccoon stealth game with guards, a scent-tracking dog, a police cruiser, speed pickups and three nights of escalating difficulty, deployed to GitHub Pages, self-verifying with Playwright screenshots and generating textures via OpenAI's image API. His verdict: engineering "a very impressive starting point," gameplay "mediocre" and "very, very easy." Autonomous multi-hour builds clear the implementation bar now. Designing something fun is what's left.
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