I have yet to go over the standard limits (by that I mean whatever is included with my normal Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions), but I only started really using it the past couple of months.
At least right now I don't see myself going over the standard limits for my personal projects. I'm not implementing more than 2-3 features a day at most, so only a handful of prompts.
I have come close to reaching the limit at work this month, but I don't have to pay for the extra requests so I'm not super concerned. I also hit it pretty hard this month with a pretty gnarly upgrade that required a lot of back and forth, which is what accumulated a lot of that usage.
Not sure how you're using so much that you're getting big bills out of this.
Love2D is pretty good, and what I'm using to develop the game I'm working on (Claude works pretty well with it too, I've been assigning it some tasks on Github).
Pico-8 is a bit simpler and is also based on Lua.
There's also the Playdate console. Anyone can make games for it, and it's also based on Lua (and has its own low-code Pulp engine you can make games with also). That would be a fun way to make games and have a console to play them on.
The console isn't cheap though, and it's easy to break (I dropped it on accident from about 2 feet up and its liquid crystal display cracked and leaked and had to be replaced, at almost the full cost of the console again), so they'd have to be careful with it. But it's fun!
Are you asking pretty standard questions? It's possible they prepared for what they're likely to be asked ahead of time and have scripts to help them not forget.
I've done that before A.I., gone through lists of interview questions on a Google Search (or what I remembered being asked in previous interviews) and thought about how to answer them with the benefit of time to think about it, and even wrote it out so I wouldn't forget. I might only take a brief moment to scroll to the corresponding question (or close enough to that question) and answer (some people might prepare so much they can just respond instantly and not refer to something they prewrote, too).
If I don't do this, I will forget, and will stumble and awkwardly pause in the interview (I still do this sometimes, I don't always prepare that much for interviews, it can be a pain and I might not be given enough time to do it).
The preparation is not unlike a politician or a talk show guest (or especially a comedian) when they go to an interview. Have stories and talking points preplanned, and make sure they go into them and how to say it.
Using A.I. might be the more likely scenario nowadays, but are we really going to assume that people who can give a good and confident answer must be terrible candidates now? That used to be considered a positive thing in interviews (granted, I don't always come across as well polished myself, so I may benefit if less polished becomes what's desired now).
When I feel like doing it (for my own projects), I do, if not, I don't.
I spent almost all of 2025 without touching any of my personal projects, although I've started working on them again this year.
While I'm on the clock at work, I do, when I'm not on the clock, I don't.
Same as before A.I.
I don't sleep that well but that's because of other reasons (I often fall asleep on the couch with the lights on, like a dummy, and then wake up several hours later and go to bed properly).
This is a weird analogy. You can ask the A.I. to fix the issue at any time of day (assuming the person asking someone with enough technical knowledge that can evaluate the fix at least).
You won't always be able to get ahold of someone at 2am. You won't be able to get ahold of me at 2am, for example. It'll throw some notification on my screen and I won't see it until I wake up.
Everything is a skill, depending on what the company values. Early on I used to do work for temp agencies, and they'd care about the ability to use (even on a rudimentary level) Microsoft Word, Excel, and how fast you could type. I'm sure you wouldn't care about anything like that, but it's about the same level of complexity as interacting with codex/claude today.
I don't even trust myself to make purchase decisions >$100. I'm probably going to make a bad purchase decision >$100 tonight.
Probably involving a board game.
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