Quick thoughts on AI in Game Dev

Over the last couple of weeks I've been working on two different small games. Both are ideas that have been kicking around in my head for a while and now felt like a good time to work on them.One is an existing project written long before I had a Claude Code subscription. The other had no code written but I had a few files of notes and ideas. After about two weeks working on both I have a few thoughts about strengths, weaknesses and quirks.As some context for how I used AI it was taking fairly small and controlled steps based on a code, play, feedback process. I have very little confidence or desire to setup a loop or goal around a game idea and vibe-code then deal with the result.Neither project is online just yet but I am hoping both will be in the next couple of months. These are both out of working hours projects so I chip away slowly.Language Models Love WordsOne thing I noticed was that Claude would put a lot of text on the screen. This isn't totally unexpected, it's a model…