From Steam to Web: The Day Job Meets the Dream

Short summary

A distributed systems engineer shares how Claude shifted his indie game dev from a manual grind to leveraging AI for rapid iteration. The real bottleneck isn't code generation—it's knowing what to ask for and verifying results. He's using Playwright to validate his Godot game in the browser, testing whether large-scale systems patterns scale to solo developers with AI assistance.

• •Code generation is now fast; bottlenecks shifted to knowing what to ask and verification
• •Using Claude + Playwright to validate Godot games in browser for rapid iteration cycles
• •Testing whether distributed systems practices scale to solo developers with AI

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