Will it DEFMACRO?

Why write boilerplate code when you can ask an LLM can do it for you? But even LLMs will avoid boilerplate if they can. I recently vibe coded a rogue-like game in Common Lisp. While I gave the model specific directions at certain points, I mostly let the model generate the code as it saw fit. I found some interesting suprises in the generated code. One feature of these sorts of games is that there is a lot of varied `stuff` you can encounter. This keeps the game interesting and maintains the novelty and sense of discovery as it takes a long time for the player to discover everything about the game. While it is fun to think of all of the different things to put in the game, it is a bit tedious to actually implement them all. You want a large variety of things, they should all be different in more than just their description, and the effect of encountering and using an item should be appropriate to the kind of item it is. It would be boring if every food item simply retored 5 health,…