Matt

tools, workflows, games, and simulations

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

@rfleury You’re obviously a very good systems programmer, but have you ever actually tried to design and ship a large game solo?

I consistently see low-level devs giving sermons on how abstraction is bad, then when you ask to see their game it's just another Minecraft demo.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Unironically, i was already making plans for how to get traction in south-east asian markets, but turns out it happened completly organically.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Woke up to 3,000 new players on https://t.co/Imr1DxJRiZ in the last 24 hours.

Went to look where the traffic came from and apparently it was being pushed in the Google Discover feed for users in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Had no what Google Discover was but I am happy it exists.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Arise chicken! For it is Thursday, the day after yesterday and before tomorrow.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Kiln just hit 100 stars. I started it as a hosted service, but getting that off the ground without an existing audience was tough. Open-sourcing it was the right move. It’s already gotten more support than anything else I’ve built.

V1 coming soon.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

@GoogleDeepMind I'm not even a big doomer but Gemini has a certain failure mode that gives me pause.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

I like Gemini models but they are the most likely to kill us all unintentionally. Pls fix the doom loops @GoogleDeepMind

Maybe keeping 3.5 Pro in the lab was for the best.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Had my agents work on napalm airstrikes (in a video game obviously) and i am honestly pretty horrified as it included a sound effect of people screaming.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

@emollick /v1/completions was a simpler time

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

We talk about AI psychosis but we should really talk about Anti-AI psychosis. The former are mostly serial builders while the ladder are mostly serial destroyers who often produce nothing.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

My AI agents tell me my prose often reads like I am inscribing stuff on to stone tablets. I tell them thank you. They tell me it's not a compliment.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

@ty_kra_lab How are you thinking about interop?

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Stuck on ideas for improving your games economy? Just add blackjack.

Doesn't matter if it fits the theme. It is almost always a net positive. Risk it for the biscuit.

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Today is a big day for me. I checked in on my times and am no longer top dog on my own game's leaderboards. It is bittersweet in a sense.

[Yohei Nishitsuji @YoheiNishitsuji]

The Sierpinski tetrahedron — one of the best-known fractals — is now available 🔗 https://t.co/oVDTh0cV2k

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

Claude of War in action

[Pyro Lith @LithPyro]

Shoutout to mimics that use creative disguise

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

My favorite LLM to use often changes but one thing that does not change is what i call it in prompts:

"Big Dog"

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

@VictorTaelin I made a lightweight procedural geometry engine and toolchain for this. It’s mostly for fast iterative prototyping - props, machinery, architecture and other hard-surface stuff.

https://t.co/XweKCkC7HC

[Matt @mattmaxbuilds]

@zeeg Attempting simulate the vietnam war in a browser is no easy task and i will need my island of geniuses to be firing on all cyclinders. Only top models are allowed to touch the repo.