
Backyard BBQ Bonanza
by Scott
Defend the family cookout from hungry critters.

Stress-Testing the Future, One Build at a Time.
The genre dice rolled Tower Defense. Three regular people, three Claude models, five prompts each. Can AI build a real game for someone who isn’t a coder?
3-person · 5 prompts each

by Scott
Defend the family cookout from hungry critters.

by Mayson
Classic tower defense, medieval edition.

by Devin
Survive the apocalypse, one wave at a time.
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A tinkerer, a rookie, a wildcard, and a newcomer — each one picks an AI model and ships a build. Same prompt budget. Different brains. Wildly different results.

The Tinkerer
Nearly forty years of bossing computers around — wrote his first program on an Apple IIe and never looked back. Not a coder, just stubborn enough to make machines do what he wants. Been playing with AI tools and bots since they hit the mainstream, and now he’s letting the AI take the keyboard.

The Rookie
Has never written a line of code in his life. Walks into every episode with nothing but curiosity and a prompt budget. If AI can really build for anyone, he’s the proof.

The Wildcard
Tech-literate but not a coder. Heavy software user, quick to learn, completely unpredictable when the AI does something weird. Comes in hot with ideas no one asked for.

The Newcomer
Scott's daughter and the absolute beginner of the crew. Knows even less about computers than Mayson — which is the whole point. If AI works for her, it works for anyone.
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