Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with LLMs
Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs 3 Days With LLMs!Aug 24, 2025IntroductionAfter 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 LLMsOn 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.ProblemSolutionUIBit the bullet and learned the minimal required React for the UI.No serverTranspiled the server to WASM using TinyGo.HostingUsed GitHub Pages to host the static files.This was pre-LLM, so every detail had to be figured out by hand. It took about 3…
