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Simon Willison·· 5 h ago

The October inflection point for vibe game development

The October inflection point for vibe game development

AI summary

I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we've reached a new inflection point in October 2026, and this time it's for vibe coding computer games .

Selection record

Not admittedSum of both 124 < twice the threshold 152

Source tier
Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
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passed:详述用Claude等模型vibe coding开发游戏

A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.

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