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The Crew
Mayson, The Rookie
The Rookie

Mayson

“If the AI can't explain it to me, the AI doesn't really know.”

Mayson is the audience surrogate — the person every AI tool company claims they're building for. He has zero coding background. No scripting, no markup, no late-night Stack Overflow sessions. Every line of code that ships under his name comes straight from the model. That makes his runs the purest stress-test of the AI promise: if the tools really work for anyone, his game should be just as playable as Scott's. If they don't, you'll see exactly where the cracks show.

Episodes
1
Games Built
1
Prompts Used
3
Model History

Which AI got the job

Every episode is a chance to pick a different model. Here's what Mayson has run with so far.

  1. Episode 1
    Tower Defense Showdown
    Contribution
    Built Castle Critters
    Claude Sonnet
    Open episode: Tower Defense Showdown, where Mayson contributed via Built Castle Critters using Claude Sonnet
The Games

The build

Mayson's entry in Episode 1 — playable right here.

← Episode 1 · Tower Defense

Castle Critters

Classic tower defense, medieval edition.

Archer · Cannon · Freezer · Inferno · Sniper · Tesla.

Claude Sonnet
Off The Record

Get to know Mayson

A few things you wouldn't learn from watching the episodes.

Favorite Genre

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AI Philosophy

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Signature Move

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Hot Take

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The Rest of the Crew

Meet the others

Full crew
The Tinkerer

Scott

Nearly forty years of bossing computers around — wrote his first program on an Apple IIe and never looked back. Not a coder, just stubborn enough to make machines do what he wants. Been playing with AI tools and bots since they hit the mainstream, and now he’s letting the AI take the keyboard.

Opus
The Wildcard

Devin

Tech-literate but not a coder. Heavy software user, quick to learn, completely unpredictable when the AI does something weird. Comes in hot with ideas no one asked for.

Haiku
The Newcomer

Ashley

Scott's daughter and the absolute beginner of the crew. Knows even less about computers than Mayson — which is the whole point. If AI works for her, it works for anyone.

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