Notes from the lab

Neon Stories

How the games get made, what broke along the way, and the decisions in between. Short reads, written by the one person who builds them.

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Have we been replaced yet, Dario?

In January, Anthropic's CEO said models might soon do everything software engineers do. Nine months later, AI writes most of my code, and my work has multiplied.

Earlier stories

  1. An account you don't needEvery Neon Labs game shares one Neon Network account, and none of them makes you create it. What it is for, what it costs you, and why one app has no account at all.3 min read
  2. The one word Apple would not let throughAriadne was turned away from the App Store over a single button label. Fixing it took a minute; it also made me write down everything the app does and does not ask you for.3 min read
  3. How Neon Labs came to beA doctor's waiting room, a game of tic-tac-toe that was mostly ads, and the three rules that came out of it.3 min read

No. 05 is in the lab

The next story is being written. Same rules as the games: short, honest, and no pop-up asking for your email.