Retired Disabled Army combat vet, no coding background. 250 iterations with Claude turned a 17KB prototype into a shipped tank game

Vibe Tanks, free browser game, one 130KB HTML file. Built entirely with Claude in the web interface. I acted as director and QA, never wrote code myself. What Claude did: 60Hz deterministic sim, procedural graphics, a synthesized soundtrack that speeds up as matches heat up, humanized AI opponent, stats, trophies, PWA install, and a Cloudflare Worker feedback backend. What I did: spec every feature, test every build on real devices, reject what failed, keep a byte-identical rollback before every change. Cla