2026-03-24 –, Half Room
I've been using LLMs to help me build games in Unreal Engine for two years. In this talk, I'll walk you through what I've learned: where it helps, where it doesn't, and where it thinks it helps but it really doesn't (the worst kind of help). No LLM was used in the making of this presentation.
Justin got his first job after college in programming after graduating with a Psych degree in 1998. He had no idea how useful the degree would end up being for the rest of his career. After working in embedded systems, real-time frontend browser software, and multi-tenant cloud service architecture processing millions of records a second, Justin recently left the software management career track to learn game programming, easily the most challenging environment he has coded in.