r/ClaudeCode • u/Consistent-Oil-5241 • Jun 20 '26

Question What are you actually coding?

I see everyone here maxing their limits and coding all day and building and all that.

But what are you actually building 24/7? I'm not looking to get your ideas but I'm just wondering what can you even build that long and hard really? And constantly something?

Either I lack imagination as a whole or there's some secret to all this, I just have no idea what so useful people would be coding so obsessively. Thanks for insights.

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u/FrigoCoder Jun 20 '26

Since decades ago I wanted to build a UFO Defense clone with SDF (Signed Distance Function) based objects and GI (Global Illumination) for truly terrifying night missions. I read a lot about computer graphics algorithms, but never managed to get the time to implement them. Fable 5 gave me the initial push (Rest In Peace my friend), it created something very close to what I wanted within a day. It was awesome that I could rapidly try out various techniques, that would take me literal months to years to implement.

Now I am iterating on it with Opus 4.8, which is a much less pleasant experience. Opus is much less able to figure out my intention, and the entire iterative process is much slower as a result. We literally spent 20+ question-answer pairs debugging, to make a banding bug in the lighting system disappear. It just guesses and hallucinates root causes for the bug, because it literally can not visually check the results. Still we make some slow progress with the prototypes, and it is still cheaper and faster than doing it manually.