yashnitro

Thats right I love Sim City thats OG, I havent played Civilization but i will!!

Minecraft is the best game i ever played, literally the best!!!!!!

Omg, I love city Skylines I remember i used to play that game alot!!!

For me it’s probably Age of Empires. I used to watch my father play it when I was younger, so replaying it now feels weirdly nostalgic.

That honestly sounds like a badge of honor in this thread :)

And somehow they always sounded like they were under extreme stress even when printing a single page.

SoftICE is one of those names that instantly makes older low-level devs nostalgic.

Whisper.cpp has been pretty solid for me if you want something free and local.

I don’t think the goal should necessarily be “without AI,” but more “without depending on AI before thinking through the problem yourself.”

One thing that helped me was forcing myself to: - design architecture first - debug manually for a while - read docs before prompting - use AI more like a reviewer than an autopilot

The fun part of programming for me was always the problem-solving loop, and it’s easy to accidentally skip that now.