PostScript: Idle Frontier and on developing games with AI

LJ V. MIRANDA· Aug 3, 2026 · 2:18 PM UTC ·10 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 3 views

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▪Postscript: Idle Frontier and on developing games with AI Aug 3, 2026 • LJ V.
▪MIRANDA | 13 min read (2326 words) Can you bootstrap your way from annotating data to training a frontier model in one thousand days?
▪Play Idle Frontier! <a href="https://ljvmiranda921.itch.io/idle-frontier">Play Idle Frontier on itch.io</a> In this blog post, I want to share my experience developing this game with the aid of Opus 5 (which I’ll just call Claude from now o

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Postscript: Idle Frontier and on developing games with AI Aug 3, 2026 • LJ V. MIRANDA | 13 min read (2326 words) Can you bootstrap your way from annotating data to training a frontier model in one thousand days? Play Idle Frontier! <a href="https://ljvmiranda921.itch.io/idle-frontier">Play Idle Frontier on itch.io</a> In this blog post, I want to share my experience developing this game with the aid of Opus 5 (which I’ll just call Claude from now on). My goal is to give a tempered perspective on AI-aided game development: something in between those zero-shot-three-js games that are popular recently and the no-AI-in-my-workflow crowd. Note that I’m just a hobbyist game developer. I learned pixel art and Godot and made four games before, but nothing too fancy.

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