Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
Introduction After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game. Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those. I asked myself: Truco: 3 Months Without LLMs On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time. As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server. Problem Solution UI Bit the bullet and le