MonroeWorld, takes an XBOX 360 binary file and recompile it for Windows. With 4 simple prompts, he has it working and is already adding new features (keyboard support, windowed running, etc). He even unlocks the program – which is easy when you have the compilable source.

He knows almost nothing about coding.

This kind of work would have likely taken a group of experienced devs with source access for the original game at least 3 months to port and release. He does it here in about 2 hours with very little knowledge.

Granted, this is not releasable software. It has not been validate, checked for security issues, etc. But this shows how a game company could potentially recompile every game they have ever made in their library for any platform and update it with just one guy working in the morning, and an agent running validation passes for a few days.

This is where the software world is. Anyone can do this. Any one person can do this.

Besides recompiling a game, Claude completely cloned Hollow Knight in under an hour. This video does a great job capturing what this experience is like for those of us in this industry. For those of us that have been developers for 20+ years, this is orders of magnitude beyond the rate of change we have ever seen. Whole teams of people can be replaced with just one person and an agent. Games, apps, and software you had to pay $100’s of dollars for can simply be made for the cost of the tokens.

Not a single second of my work day is the same as it was a year ago. I have not written more than a few line of code myself in months at this point. All of the software that I used to use regularly, I am replacing with my own custom software that I created with AI.