The challenge for me was consistency in translating free text from dialogs into classic, deterministic game state changes. But what's satisfying is that the conversations aren't just window dressing, they're part of the game mechanic.
I found this to be the actual strenuous work in LLM based development. While it appears like AI has made everything easy and free, the particular challenge of consistently getting deterministic outputs takes serious programming effort. It feels like an entirely new job role. In other words, I wouldn't do this for free, it takes too much effort.
The challenge for me was consistency in translating free text from dialogs into classic, deterministic game state changes. But what's satisfying is that the conversations aren't just window dressing, they're part of the game mechanic.