Web engineers using Claude vs. game engineers in the 90s
kyleturman · x · 2026-08-18
A joke comparing the work styles of engineers across different eras. Today's web engineers marvel: 'Look at this, I had Claude make this hero section animation follow the mouse cursor.' Meanwhile, game engineers in the 90s were 'manually modifying memory addresses allocated for console processes to enable a new type of 3D renderer that had never been done before.'
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