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. Two fronts.
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Game engineering in C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan. Line by line. No engine. No AI.
Paid in Dollars
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