Chris Howe

Engineer for 1st Playable Productions.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@SebAaltonen Having AI review all our changes (which were already human reviewed) and flag anything that seems high risk, has been something of a game changer for me.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@SebAaltonen All AI code should be reviewed by the person running the agent. Then we still review all changes prior to commit. And then we have another AI review all changes. Sometimes I think its excessive but issues are found at all stages, and each has a slightly different purpose.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@d_linkski Left behind? Not anytime soon. But AI tools would help you do your job even better. Is there a tool you always wanted but never time to write it? Codex can do it while you do your own work. Have some crazy idea but cant spend 2 days testing it? Use Codex to prototype it.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@timsoret @kiaran_ritchie The screenshot method sounds interesting. Verification is still the missing step with Unity that would let us close the loop. MCP can examine scene state but not runtime behavior.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@timsoret @kiaran_ritchie Unity is not entirely opaque to LLMs. We have Unity MCP, and models do an amazing job of working with Unity YAML directly. I still think open web engines are the way to go in the long term though.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@sebify I find Codex can actually debug its own mcp connections and fix them but its just faster to restart when that happens.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@sebify @unitygames Yeahhhh we switched to TeamCity for Unity and now UCB build times seem painful.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@d_linkski @tastethebates I enjoyed it! But I didnt read the sequels for some reason. Tomorrow there is new Dungeon Crawler Carl though so I'll be reading that.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@DailyNickNews @Greginator1996 @DavidFernkids @Nickelodeon @nickjr Also Apple TV and Mac

[David Fern @DavidFernkids]

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[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@sebify It makes me happy to see experienced, pragmatic engineers getting to grips with this tech. Its has a lot of awesome uses, but it isn't magic like some people claim.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

One of the issues with using AI for Unity coding is that the training data must contain an awful lot of bad Unity code and shady practices. I constantly have to remind it not to do things like looking up all scene objects using strings.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen @vivoplt Its 1 vibe coder

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@sebify Places where I find it most useful are prototyping, and tools. Also Codex seems far more capable for me than anything else I've tried for Unity work.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@DoctorGester @SebAaltonen I've had a little success with telling our systems that we validate our references at build time so we dont need to do it at runtime. Doesn't always work though.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@sebify @AlanLawrance Honestly just get a Mac mini and hook it up to Teamcity. Builds are SO much faster too.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@seconds_0 Meshy 6 is fantastic but it's still far from perfect. Often adds extra fingers or even hands, and has a hard time with perspective. At the rate that tech is evolving though I expect most of it to be fixed in Meshy 7.

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@OyezWurfel @Amanseeks I worked on the console port. Favorite thing I've ever worked on. It was 99% done and got canceled. 😪

[Chris Howe @ChrisHowe77]

@AugustJPollak This is the first thing I thought of when I started seeing all the posts about mailed ballets going astray.