AI guesses the
next token.
I write the engine.
I'm Harlley. 7 years deep, paid in USD, building games on the side in C++/OpenGL/Vulkan — no engine, no AI-generated code. The global market pays in dollars for devs who actually know what's going on under the hood.
There's a comfortable lie running through tech right now: that you can skip the basics and let AI handle the messy parts.
When your pointer trashes memory, when Vulkan tanks the GPU, when the memory leak hits production — ChatGPT can't fix it. It just guesses the next token.
I teach what separates the average dev from the senior engineer paid in dollars: rock-solid fundamentals.
One manifesto. Three fronts.
Games and a C++ engine I keep live. The course where fundamentals turn into real games. And career-in-USD content on YouTube.
Forja
Game engineering in C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan. Line by line. No engine. No AI.
Games & Engine
Fazenda dos Sonhos — an online game I built and keep live, 8.5k+ signups. Plus forge-engine, my public C++ engine.
Paid in Dollars
How Brazilian devs pass tech interviews, land remote roles abroad, and start getting paid in dollars.
Ready to code for real?
The Forge opens September-October 2026. Waitlist gets 50% off the early bird price.
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