Charles McCann

Engineer | Building AI apps | Game dev | Musician | Always creating

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@wholyv I noticed the change too in the model output. Still good, but not as impressive. Will try different effort levels

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@bridgemindai I haven't had that much created in 1 shot. Very nice. so, no validation steps from you?

[BridgeMind @bridgemindai]

Claude Fable 5.1 ONE SHOTTED this Mario Kart game.

This is one of the best results I've had so far and I am SUPER impressed with the game development capabilities.

Fable 5.1 is a huge step up from Fable 5.

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@hakimieiqbal very impressive! looks really good. How was your testing cycles?

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

I'll share more of what the games were and links to them, but I did end up testing out 6. Kimi did not do well. Gemini iterated a lot to get it working well, but it was cheap. Grok was extra smart the first time, 'finding' previous project to start from.

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

Lava vs water and other mechanics. Playing around for one of my game ideas

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

AI development is amazing. All of my projects I thought I would never finish are moving forward again. They had gotten too big for 1 person. My favorite game I'm building was 400k+ lines of code. Now, 560k+ lines and 30k test cases! 30 Debug screens to verify everything!

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

Review of 1 of 5: Gemini 3.6 Flash
(Implemented ~430 line spec)
Pros: Good, Cheap, Full Featured, Test Coverage, Dev in Browser, performance
Cons: Many iterations and lots of time guiding (still cheap).
51 files, ~14k lines (2k are tests)
(I'll be posting detailed summary reviews later)

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

I gave 6 AI models the exact same game to build.
Same design doc, starter project, and prompt. Then I turned them loose: Kimi 3, GPT-5.6 Sol Lite, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5, Opus 5, and Fable.

Posting what each one built, comparisons, videos, and which is best?

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

For years I built games and apps that mostly never shipped. Only recently, with AI helping, has actually releasing something felt possible.

So I'm going to post the journey: what I'm building, and what I'm learning with AI along the way. 😃

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@majidmanzarpour @threejs Love it! Well done!

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@TimJayas Nice! Yours looks better than mine, but I did do something like that with 2d (posted few weeks back) from blocks to rigged and the results were very good!

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@ComfyUI creating special effects got 100x easier

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@TeamYouTube Circumvention cascade hitting other channels on my account due to unauthorized uploads I didn't do. Support response focused on account access (which I haven't lost) instead of the actual issue. Case 1-8765000041246. Can a human review this please?

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

Game dev is in Love2D

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

Solo dev's wall isn't always skill. Sometimes it's volume.

Shelved this RPG because just the art alone would take forever. Came back with AI doing the lift, all SVG.

Building it again.

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

Vibe Coding - don't like the phrase, but been trying. I now have a new phrase: "Angry Vibe Coding"!
Engaged when: AI removes code that was working, AI can't fix something you know you can manually fix.
#Coding #vibecoding

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

Stuck in 1978? The U.S. capital gains loss limit is still $3,000/year—should be ~$14,000 with inflation. Congress hasn’t budged in 47 years. Time for a tax update? #TaxPolicy #Inflation
Had #Grok help me with this...

[Charles McCann @charlesamccann]

@Camgarrettgt96 @wes_g1 Very nice, Wes! Congrats!!!