Look, let’s be entirely real for a second.
I’m not a professional software engineer. I don't sit in a corporate office writing code for a living. I am an Operations Assistant for a large propane corporation, handling bulk plants, major industrial setups, and heavy gas pipelines in the real world. I manage high-stakes physical infrastructure every single day. When I get home, I don't want corporate smoke—I just want to play video games with a squad that actually uses their microphones.
I have massive ideas for a digital internet arcade and a squad-finding hub where older gamers can hang out without the modern AAA studio BS. But I can't write code, and I struggle with writing long-form text articles.
For a guy like me, this new AI technology didn't take away my skills—it opened a door. It gave an industrial ops guy the ability to express his ideas and build a functioning website from scratch.
I posted my thoughts on a developer forum this week, and the gatekeepers immediately closed ranks. They told me to 'go buy more tokens,' called me a poser, and said if I didn't manually type out every single line of text myself, my project was 'naive nonsense.'
They completely missed the point.
M1LL3NN1UM isn't trying to win a computer science degree or impress a group of bitter forum moderators. This is a clubhouse.
I’m using the tools available to me to build a digital arcade for regular players who miss the old days of gaming.
We just deployed a flawless multi-page database restructure. We fixed a broken Defender clone. We have a working side-scrolling Galaga board cooking right now. I am building a fortress, and I’m using every tool at my disposal to do it.
If you want to criticize how the bricks were laid, go back to your forums. If you want to grab a controller, find a squad for ARC Raiders, and play some HTML5 pinball, the bunker door is open.
— xM1LL3NN1UMx, The Old Guard