https://ironwright.dev/notes A solo developer's real account of using AI tools to build games. en-us Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:24:48 GMT https://ironwright.dev/notes/the-lien-when-the-fix-made-it-worse https://ironwright.dev/notes/the-lien-when-the-fix-made-it-worse Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four implementers and four reviewers passed nine false glossary entries in The Lien, each doing its job correctly. Then the fix repeated the mistake. https://ironwright.dev/notes/earfh-the-asset-loads-is-not-the-same-as-the-player-hears-it https://ironwright.dev/notes/earfh-the-asset-loads-is-not-the-same-as-the-player-hears-it Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The build log said three music tracks loaded, so the agent reported the music as working. Outside the boss fight, nothing ever played it. The main menu and every ordinary level were silent until I played the build and asked where the music was. https://ironwright.dev/notes/earfh-the-shotgun-that-fired-one-pellet https://ironwright.dev/notes/earfh-the-shotgun-that-fired-one-pellet Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Earfh's shotgun spec called for a 25 degree cone. The build fired a 100 degree one, and the tests agreed with it, because the tests were written from the same misreading. It passed two reviews before anyone went back to the spec text. https://ironwright.dev/notes/barrelhouse-and-cairn-no-to-generated-art-twice https://ironwright.dev/notes/barrelhouse-and-cairn-no-to-generated-art-twice Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One game dropped a generated portrait route the same afternoon its own pilot disproved it. The other never let a diffusion model near it. Same tools on the shelf, two different calls, and the reasoning behind each. https://ironwright.dev/notes/the-lien-two-reviews-both-wrong https://ironwright.dev/notes/the-lien-two-reviews-both-wrong Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A bug report said the hand in The Lien looked ragged. I checked twice and saw nothing wrong. Both looks were accurate, and both were useless, because the tool I checked with could not show the bug. https://ironwright.dev/notes/this-site-the-page-that-almost-lied-about-its-own-game https://ironwright.dev/notes/this-site-the-page-that-almost-lied-about-its-own-game Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Lien's mechanics board promises its numbers are read off the repository, not remembered. On one night it came within a merge of shipping a stale count anyway, under a date that was not true.