Over the holidays, I stress-tested the AI coding hype by doing something concrete: I built a college football simulator game from scratch to see if agents actually deliver.
While fully hands-off agentic coding didn’t hold up for me, the agents performed a substantial amount of prototyping which transitioned to pair-programming as the project became more complex.
The final game features 48 college teams, a 12-week scheduler, 3 different playbooks, and an 8-team playoff.
To play, run python main.py. Have fun!