Casey Muratori Programmer and game developer who runs Molly Rocket and created Handmade Hero, a live-streamed series on building a game from scratch.

“In theory, possibly this may be one of the few things that someone has made with AI that was properly licensed, because we know they did pay for the Stack Overflow training data. We don't know how much.”

The Standup with ThePrimeagen · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · November 2026

Context

A co-host built a Stack Overflow simulator game that uses an LLM to play the site's notoriously harsh moderators. Casey jokes that, given Stack Overflow's data-licensing deals with AI companies, this may be a rare AI project built on lawfully licensed training data.

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Transcript

The Standup with ThePrimeagen Around 56:18 into the episode

Speaker 2

The classic, the classic Stack Overflow experience. Honestly, this was a

Speaker 1

pretty good Stack Overflow experience. This is exactly what I'm saying. That's how they gatekeep it. Yeah.

Casey Muratori

I would also say this. So in theory, possibly this may be one of the few things that someone has made with AI that was properly licensed because we know they did pay for the Stack Overflow training data. Yeah, true. We don't know how much.

Speaker 1

Google Argonne specifically to build this one.

Speaker 2

Exclusively

Speaker 4

Google Gemini. I asked Google Gemini and I copy and pasted the results from the AI overview out from there into my editor.

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“A lot of the things that people are talking about doing with AI are things that no one should have had to do in the first place. They're being done because we've created such a bad programming environment that nobody wants to interact with it anymore.” — Casey Muratori, The Standup with ThePrimeagen