But when my editor told me he vibe coded a Minesweeper remake, my wheels started spinning, and eventually went off the rails.

This is the kind of creative activity that LLMs truly excel at. Check out this awesome DIY project that was lots of fun to make!

If you put the model on item display it can be in the wrong position, you can fix this by add extra (scale * 0.5F) to the y position. That should do the trick.