Chris Hawkes
FollowEverything Chris personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"I've been using ChatGPT since it came out. I use ChatGPT all the time."
"I use Cursor. I've I I've I I wrote my own Cursor alternative to use local looms."
"I chose one of the more difficult tasks to take on in my opinion when it comes to game development by going both, you know, 3D and also VR and then doing Unreal Engine with VR, which there just isn't a ton of support."
"The games entered into Steam NextFest. I'm going to release it on May the 14th."
"The wave system that was difficult to figure out. It's a custom-built wave system that was written in C++."
"I can go to Sora and create some weird looking video like what I got playing right now"
"I use Claude code."
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"Grok AI is creating nude images of real people, of children"
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"I chose one of the more difficult tasks to take on in my opinion when it comes to game development by going both, you know, 3D and also VR and then doing Unreal Engine with VR, which there just isn't a ton of support."
"The wave system that was difficult to figure out. It's a custom-built wave system that was written in C++."
"The games entered into Steam NextFest. I'm going to release it on May the 14th."
"I've been using ChatGPT since it came out. I use ChatGPT all the time."
"Using the latest version of ChatGPT, it didn't take me more than three or four prompts before the AI started hallucinating"
"The way I've seen ChatGPT even 5.2 hallucinate today. I just don't see this happening anytime soon."
"I can go to Sora and create some weird looking video like what I got playing right now"
"I use Cursor. I've I I've I I wrote my own Cursor alternative to use local looms."
"Cursor raising their prices so much, which is why I don't even use Cursor anymore"
"I use Claude code."
"I can have my own infrastructure in the AWS cloud or whatever"
"Lovable, if you've ever checked them out. They're kind of like Wix but they're like AI driven. The goal is like, oh, you just feed a chatbot and it'll build you your own blog or website."
"I can just get a Digital Ocean or Linode and host my own website"
"I can just get a Digital Ocean or Linode and host my own website"
"That's why we have ESLint rules and 100% unit testing code coverage"
"Dennis Ritchie writing the C programming language"
"I was watching that Die Hard movie. This movie came out in 1988 and there was a touchscreen and Bruce Willis's character was like, 'Oh, that's a nice toy.'"
"The program offered the ability to debug your Oculus Quest a little bit easier."
"If you're going to build a VS Code clone, you have no moat. Which is what they all do, right? So even Amazon's new editor is a VS Code clone."
"You didn't have ChatGPT back in those days and Stack Overflow wasn't really even taken off."
"No experience with Java or Android or any of that. I like crushed it and and created this app"
"Claude Computer Use could be exploited very quickly through prompt injections from malicious instructions"
"Grok AI is creating nude images of real people, of children"