What started as a simple AI-generated ice cream game somehow turned into one of the most weirdly competitive coding experiences I’ve had in a long time. I joined this ongoing AI coding challenge with extremely low expectations. Not fake low expectations either. Genuine ones. At this point, the internet is flooded with AI-generated projects that all somehow look identical after five minutes. Somebody discovers a new model, generates a landing page with glowing buttons and a gradient background, adds glassmorphism cards floating around in space, and suddenly everyone in the comments starts talking like software development has permanently changed overnight. Most of those projects look impressive right up until you actually interact with them. Then you realize there’s usually not much underneath. So when I first opened this challenge, I honestly expected more of the same. A few decent experiments. Some overdesigned dashboards. Maybe a couple of interesting ideas are buried somewhere in the middle.…