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Education, Software, Game Dev, AI.

[Tone @InOneProjects]

I have finished reviewing/getting impressions of every single game out of the 945 games submitted to #vibejam.

If you submitted a game and haven't received any feedback or tags from me, take a look at the link below. Impressions tend to be brief.

To be frank, some of these games did not deserve even the brief time I put into them.

But SOME of these games are genuinely stunners. Some of these games have enormous depth, gorgeous visuals, addicting loops, and genuine commercial potential.

I'll be posting some of my thoughts, opinions, and wrapup ideas as the official judging of the vibejam continues. As a reminder, I am not an official vibejam judge. I just wanted to look at all of the competition and see what the playing field looks like.

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Quality memeing 😂

[Brian Graham @iroasmas]

am i sure the death star is going down? look at my quant. look at him! you notice anything different about him? look at his eyes. i’ll give you a hint—his name’s a fucking number!! he doesn’t even speak english—it’s all beep-boop shit!! yeah, i’m sure.

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@kunchenguid @leerob I agree with this but also it feels like a Chesterton's fence kind of situation. We tear down the barrier only to discover all the issues that come up by not having specifically allocated people to specific tasks with specific titles.

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@ivanibash 😁

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@LudensLudonauta The blue badge matters. Buy it

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@SwiminScorpions

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@ivanibash What do you mean?

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@LudensLudonauta Sure I'll message you there. I'm brainstorming on a project now so it'll be interesting to see if there's room for that here or if it makes sense at all

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I have a lot of sympathy for the "AI can't write code" crowd. When you're using it on something you understand deeply, watching it solve for situations that don't matter, or stepping in to make a small change and realizing it has coupled ideas which turn the small change into a large change damages trust in it's ability to do anything at all.

You find yourself changing your intended implementation strategy to correspond to what will be easiest - or rerolling entirely. This creates the "slot machine" type of workflow a lot of people are concerned about.

I still think this is largely a skill and discretion issue. It can be easy to delegate to the machine entirely and forget you have agency in the process because it's a tool - these are the rerolls, the "No, wrong, do it again" frustration prompts, the lack of context "but it should be obvious" prompts.

Software engineers expect software to work and so the idea of collaborating with their tools, or treating it as a talented coworker in a pair programming experience is foreign. Many of them tend to hate pair programming entirely, anyway, and so why would they use a tool that just forces them to work in a way they already disliked? Why would they spend time explaining to their tools how they should work and what they should be doing when they can make it work themselves without all of that labor?

When I first got into software a common way of explaining code was to say that its the worlds smartest, most literal person who will do exactly what you tell it to. The onus for software not working is entirely on you and the decisions you made in writing it - it makes for a fantastic microcosm of personal accountability and tremendous respect when you encounter errors designed to save you from exactly the issue you yourself are in the process of creating.

I think that way of thinking is still relevant, but widened.

It's a lot like teaching kids - you can't just expect them to know all the inferential steps between your ask and expected result. Try asking a 5 year old to put their shoes on and just sit back and wait. If they ever get there, there will be some interesting side quests along the way.

But at the same time, once they get the shoes you can't start yelling at them for not doing it the way you wanted. "We don't use bunny ears for knotting our shoes! We loop, swoop, and pull!"

You weren't trying to teach them the tying method, you were trying to teach them to get them on and you have to quiet the voice in the back of your head that screams it isn't how you would have done it and just accept the output.

That doesn't mean you have to accept genuinely bad outputs, but it means you're now responsible for tuning your request, adjusting the context, building the guardrails so that the outputs - even when not how you'd do it - meet the standard you expect for "it works."

The shoes are on and they're tied and they're not causing issues? Good job, buddy. Nailed it.

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@ThePrimeagen The Demon Cycle by Peter V Brett. First book is “The Warded Man”

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@kunchenguid This is very cool! Thanks for sharing. Going to try this this evening

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@dangreenheck I think there was a massive surge of excitement around the 2026 vibejam, but that's over

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@MrForExample @fightlifemobile

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@realBigBrainAI Why not post the link and credit the creator instead of making this sound like some spontaneous generation of anons?
https://t.co/J4f2gYbz0R
@leocooout

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@leocooout Would love to read that breakdown. Is this still on your radar or did you finish it and I missed it?

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@JohnOcens @UsuallyTheHero @RagimMusakaev @sebastien_and @fabiensnauwaert It’s pretty magical isn’t it? All these people with creation now at their fingertips. Best. Possible. Timeline.

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#vibejam quick reviews 011-015

1. Sock Climber @UsuallyTheHero

2. Almost Surgery @RagimMusakaev

3. Clawthrone @sebastien_and

4. LingoGoat @fabiensnauwaert

5. Mazima @johnocens

Worth a play? ⬇️

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I can't help but wonder if, in the same way you transitioned from creator to supervisor, if this isn't just a facsimile of the age old process of reaching as far as you can (and would like to) in your current role. But when working with agentic coding, there isn't really a role above supervision of the work. There is no human worker's needs to consider, no human decisions on benefits that need balancing against human shareholders and stakeholders, no politics to wrestle or intractable morons to work around.

The problems lose some aspect of human dimensionality, so what then is the next role?

My hunch is it needs to involve people. But perhaps you're already doing this?

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@JohnOcens @UsuallyTheHero @RagimMusakaev @sebastien_and @fabiensnauwaert Glad to hear it was more than just some prompts tossed out and abandoned for you! Keep building