"Remember when this was amazing?" 2022 code-davinci zero-code game demos look quaint now
apples_jimmy · x · 2026-11-08
Andrew Mayne's March 2022 post resurfaces: he built simplified versions of Wordle, VR mazes and Zelda entirely through natural-language instructions to OpenAI's code-davinci model (4,000-token context), editing zero lines of code, with playable demos on Codepen. Quote-tweeter applesjimmy jokes that expectations have since inflated to Dyson-sphere levels — a snapshot of how fast the AI coding baseline has moved.
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