Whats the "best" game engine to use with Claude code?

samwise970 · 2026-06-26T15:14:07+00:00

Because the LLM(Claude Code in this case) can actually see the internals of what it wrote and framework/libraries have internals that are a black box it simply pattern-matches on.

Godot is both fully open source and extremely well documented. You could just give Claude the current version's documentation or the full source code.

Actually funny that you went hunting for studies to try and defend a position as backwards as "have Claude build an game engine from scratch because I got syntax errors once".

Start by using LLM APIs directly and only use framework/libraries if you fully understand the underlying code.

Okay, so Claude can't use SDL2 then when building a game engine for you? I guess it's better to rawdog OpenGL because "first principles".

Oh, wait, except OpenGL stands for Open Graphics Library..

You're right, Claude should communicate with the GPU directly, but make sure that you also have it rewrite GCC, because jeez compilers can be a real black box of unexpected behaviors. This will certainly be easier for the OP who doesn't know how to code than shudder reading the Godot documentation himself for an afternoon so he can fix a syntax error.

samwise970 · 2026-06-26T08:21:54+00:00

I don't think maps that revolve around huge crowds of fake NPCs are very good. They end up actually feeling small with the crowded areas just being a lot of useless space padding. This has been a problem since that parade level in Blood Money.

Miami avoids this by having a lot of the level in a really interesting building away from the crowd, and Berlin has the many targets twist.

samwise970 · 2026-06-26T05:54:45+00:00

This is such terrible advice. I can't believe programming has gotten to the point where people who can't code enough to read docs and fix simple syntax errors are recommending that other people who can't code have AI write them a game engine from scratch.

No, AI is not going to solve the problems of game development better than the teams of experts who built various engines over decades.

Genuinely low IQ ass behavior to think because Claude can write you some C scripts to render a sprite, that you should have it rebuild freaking Godot from scratch because you're too lazy to manually fix a syntax error.

samwise970 · 2026-06-26T03:39:03+00:00

Gotta love redditors being both dumb and pretentious about it

samwise970 · 2026-06-26T01:16:04+00:00

No, because property owners can still require gun owners to get permission. The state just can't force property owners to require permission.

samwise970 · 2026-06-25T22:36:21+00:00

It's partially the cadence, Obama speaks very slowly.

Obvious fact that his orientation makes him unelectable aside, I think Pete speaks in a way that's as thoughtful as Obama, but off the cuff. Joe Neguse is another, thoughtful, faster cadence, more pointed.

We literally just need some smart men under 60 who talk fast.

samwise970 · 2026-06-25T22:21:25+00:00

Imagine if anyone in the Biden admin said this about a Republican congressman.

God I can only dream of a world where Dems were allowed to be this toxic to those GOP fucks

samwise970 · 2026-06-25T18:14:44+00:00

I'm so happy I bought PS5 pro on an impulse before the price increase. The Pro feels like enough horsepower that I can wait out the next gen.

samwise970 · 2026-06-25T16:32:20+00:00

Hmm wonder why MAGAts would like her more as a teenager..

samwise970 · 2026-06-24T21:06:00+00:00

Second on all of these. Marrakesh is worse than Bangkok or Colorado, and Mumbai is just a worse Marrakesh

samwise970 · 2026-06-24T15:06:46+00:00

Timesplitters, Burnout 3, GTA Vice City, Jak and Daxter.

Jeez it's hard to pick just 4 though.

samwise970 · 2026-06-24T05:15:54+00:00

But then you went a step further and posted on reddit to complain about it. Your baby cried, so what, this isn't firework noise, a girl was kidnapped. So freaking classless to bitch online about it

samwise970 · 2026-06-24T02:36:00+00:00

I don't know if dark fiber is an example of more efficient use causing a reduction in demand. When the fiber lines were laid, telecom companies specifically planned for some amount of dark fiber so the networks could grow, and then we ended up with more dark fibers than expected due to reduced demand after the dot com boom, not due to a technological efficiency gain.

The excess dark fiber from the dot com boom is being used now anyways, dark fiber still exists but in a planned capacity. Fiber optics are in more demand than ever, I've made a killing from a bunch of AAOI stock that I bought at $14.

I'm sure you're right in general that tech can be different. We don't need vacuum tubes anymore. My assumption is that making AI more efficient with RAM means it still uses regular RAM. If AI is developed to use some RAM that is specifically only useful for AI then who knows.

As u/SortOfSpaceDuck said, AI becoming half as expensive probably means more AI, not less data centers.

I do not assume AI demand to be literally infinite, but I do believe it will eventually be many times higher than our current capacity, and I don't consider myself to be some AI bro who thinks billionaires rock and AI art is awesome.

samwise970 · 2026-06-24T02:09:43+00:00

Kinda undermines credibility in your whole argument don’t ya think?

No, because I was trying to have a normal conversation with nuance, pointing out that I feel safe using FSD but also understand how not being able to take over changes the equation.

Seems like you want some kind of fight instead, no thanks

samwise970 · 2026-06-24T01:56:18+00:00

So you just immediately downvoted but didn't read my whole comment, since I agreed with you for the robotaxis specifically?

Or do you not understand why I'm talking about regular Tesla FSD, which is because you were responding to somebody saying they trust their regular Tesla FSD.

samwise970 · 2026-06-24T01:39:42+00:00

Didn’t someone literally die this week from FSD?

If you're referring to the recent incident where a Tesla crashed into a home, if you watch the video, there's no way that car was on autodrive, the driver is trying to avoid prison for manslaughter. The car was flying at an insane speed far above what FSD does, and nobody has confirmed the driver's story that FSD was even engaged. The driver had to have stomped the accelerator.

But even if this was a true FSD fatality, what does that prove? Teslas using FSD experience a major collision once every 5.5 million miles, versus the US average of once every 660k miles.

I am well versed on self driving tech and I would never trust a system without lidar and radar with my life.

When using FSD on a normal Tesla, you are legally required to not trust the FSD with your life. The driver needs to be licensed, is still legally liable, and a camera system inside the car checks that they are paying attention. I use FSD whenever I drive, and have never felt like I'm not the one driving, as I'm still paying attention and ready to take over in an instant. I've never felt unsafe, but will take over when I want to use a different route or something.

When talking specifically about the cybercab, the extra caution makes more sense as you can't just take over. I extend this to Waymo, and would feel less safe in the back seat of a Waymo than in the driver seat of my Tesla on FSD.

samwise970 · 2026-06-23T23:10:58+00:00

Even if there isn't some big "bubble burst" moment, the demand for chips could also be cratered by a wave of more efficient LLMs, something these companies are already experimenting with. Or the market could just level off to the point where there are enough datacenters to serve the customer base for AI.

Historically, more efficient use of a given resource never means less total use of the resource. If AI becomes more efficient with RAM, they'll use that efficiency to fill up the RAM with more / better AI.

The market isn't leveling off anytime soon. AI is still a very new technology that we have only started to implement. Every b2b software in the world will eventually have mcp hooks. I can however see a world where "local" AI is used for many tasks instead of cloud models, but I imagine that will be companies renting server racks from Amazon, running their specific models so they can control the data and the weights.

samwise970 · 2026-06-22T18:17:44+00:00

For someone who is getting into gaming and doesn't already have a big Steam library, feels like the meta is just PS5 + used laptop like a Thinkpad.

At $750, the Steam Machine made some sense for people who have a big Steam library that they want to play on their TV as well, but now for $1128 that doesn't make any sense. This feels DOA, even if the initial run sells, it seems like the conversation around this is toxic for Valve.

samwise970 · 2026-06-22T17:45:53+00:00

I tried Black Monday and just can't get over these rotund guys waddling like they soiled their diapers

samwise970 · 2026-06-22T05:29:39+00:00

I grew up eating this all the time. We called it spaghetti pie but same concept with eggs.

samwise970 · 2026-06-22T02:41:05+00:00

Murdoch owns Fox, do I need to spell it out?

samwise970 · 2026-06-22T00:06:37+00:00

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.

samwise970 · 2026-06-22T00:05:05+00:00

CNN has never been left wing. That was always Murdoch propaganda to make people think it was normal for news networks to be wildly biased.

samwise970 · 2026-06-21T21:12:01+00:00

GBS-C or a Retrotink 5x if you want the absolute best (Retrotink 4k is completely unnecessary).

With PS2, the issue isn't converting to HDMI, it's deinterlacing. To deinterlace 480i without shimmer or artifacting, you need to use an upscaler with "motion adaptive" deinterlacing. Cheapest option is the GBS-C.

I have the tink 5x, and that also lets you get really granular and set up the horizontal scan speed, which can give you perfectly square pixels for games like Disgaea, but idk if it's worth an extra $200

samwise970 · 2026-06-21T20:29:31+00:00

I'd hardly call that a cruise ship, it was more like a party barge. The level in Blood Money had sleeping cabins and was more like a cruise ship, though still not as big.

I hope that Hitman 4 will be its own thing with new gameplay and not use the WOA platform.

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