The hard part of building with AI isn't the code — it's catching the BS

A game called Pathogenic launched on July 16. It's a roguelike where you play as a parasite inside the human body. By launch day, I had a full wiki for it live: guides, databases, patch notes, the works.

I'm not a developer. I'm a product manager. I don't write code. I used an AI coding agent (Claude Code) to build the whole thing — Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, SSR, the content pipeline, all of it.

And the experience taught me something that I think gets lost in the "AI will replace developers" discourse:

The code was the easy part. The hard part was catching the bullshit.

What "building with AI" actually looks like