[andai]

When I asked ChatGPT for help with Zig during a game jam, it gave me a bunch of code that was no longer valid.

It used to be, but the compiler changed.

I understand it's an extreme example — Zig is both niche and pre-1.0 — but it was the first thing that came to mind as a counterexample to, an API that never changes.

It's not just an LLM thing, when I looked up tutorials and docs, most of them were also using code that didn't work anymore. And the library I needed only worked with a specific version, so I had to upgrade.. but not too far!

Boring, "painful" languages, by contrast, were quite productive for game jams. Except the time when adding a member to a class broke the Emscripten build on the last day, and it took me the entire day to track it down (because why on earth would it be that!)