How long would it take you to write 45,000 lines of of game code

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Why it worked

The video leverages a provocative, counter-intuitive claim ('I coded a game in three days') to capture attention, then provides a clear, relatable example of how AI is disrupting traditional software development timelines.

Summary

Tim Pool discusses how he used an AI tool called Astra to build an entire video game in three days, a task that would otherwise take years of human labor. The conversation highlights the efficiency of AI in game development.

Structure

1Host asks how long it takes to build a game from scratch
2Guest claims he did it in three days
3Guest reveals he used AI to accomplish the task
4Guest explains the massive time and cost savings

Original caption

Could AI change how long it takes to build a video game? This conversation explores how thousands of lines of code and major parts of a game were created in just days with AI. Could AI completely change game development? #fyp #viral #AI #GameDevelopment #Coding #ArtificialIntelligence #timpool

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Astra (a) acts: The speaker says he used it to generate the game code, characters, and level generator. Removing it would change the entire premise of the video. Tim Pool (b) appears: The speaker is a public figure and the subject of the interview. Removing him would change the video, but he is not a product being sold.

On-screen text

Tim Pool Coded An Entire Video Game In Three Days

Transcript

How long would it take you to write 45,000 lines of of game code, animate 13, uh let's say uh 15 characters, uh and then uh design the a level generator for procedurally generate. How long do you think that would take? I mean it's with AI, No no no no no no no no no. From scratch? Yeah. Oh, I mean that would that would take like two years. I did it in three days. Three days? You coded 45,000 lines in three days? Indeed, yep. I'm impressed. I I I just went on Astra and I said, here's the game that I want. And so it took so so far I think we're probably at a combined like 35 hours of labor, human labor. The machine's doing, god knows what it is. Oh, that's what I mean. I thought I I I thought you said you personally wrote 45,000. Oh no no no no. I'm saying I did it with AI. Yes. No question. And uh and so I was like, I'm assuming it's probably six months of work and then we looked it up and it's like the the estimates are that it would take between like at this point, two to four years and probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in art, design, animation, development. And uh we did it all in like a week.