Game Dev

Indie game developer with a mildly successful game. Alt account.

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@vtchakarova Vague-smugposting, nice

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@theo It really is all strawmanning. They don't know what they don't know

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@codetaur Yea I've been wondering. Every time I try claude code it's not as good as codex but there's way more hype for it. Almost no one talks about codex

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@BenjaminDEKR I still don't understand why all the attention is on opus 4.5 and almost none on codex 5.2

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@fawfulfan It's a business choice to post that ugly sign. That's it. We don't need a higher power for little things like this

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@timsoret Shut up and eat the popcorn

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@haider1 This is just obviously not true. I love ai but the artist community is extremely against "ai slop" and they are amazing at creating

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@dbessner As always, it's because you changed (got jaded/ increased tolerance etc) not tv

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

So why so much gushing about opus 4.5 and barely any about codex 5.2? What's the deal?

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@KeyTryer Transcribing music seems trivial compared to transcribing voices or coding at a senior engineer level

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@thomaschattwill 1) Living an extreme billionaire life style is probably actually a ton of work (like running an org)

2) being around normal people has its own charm

3) he's not that creative, which is fine most people aren't

Just my theory

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@wren_and_paper I use llms to weed through thousands of books from stuff I might like. Works great

Using big tech to accelerate my attention span

[Kiaran Ritchie @kiaran_ritchie]

AI coding has actually increased my enjoyment and satisfaction with my craft.

It's not just that I am purely results oriented (though I don't see that as a bad thing), but rather that the aspects of programming that I most enjoy, are accelerated and amplified in this new paradigm.

People are not distinguishing between "vibe coding" and "vibe engineering". I read every line of code. I design the architecture, the classes, the functions.

The result is that I can build the EXACT same system I would have written by hand, at 10-20x speed.

As I'm building I often desire to continuously refactor. Building tests your assumptions and sometimes you discover that what you REALLY want would require some substantial refactoring.

Traditionally, there would be a massive pull to ignore these more optimal paths in favor of expediency. I can only code for about ~8hrs a day; so you start calculating in your head, "is it worth disassembling this right now and delaying forward progress?".

With vibe engineering, this tradeoff largely disappears. As soon a better path presents itself (pattern / data structure / architecture) I implement it!

The code is, more or less, always in the state I want it in. If it isn't, it's usually just minutes away.

This workflow maintains everything I love about coding. The complex interplay of algorithms, design, data structures. The satisfaction of finding powerful abstractions and using them to build really valuable things that delight users.

I fully recognize that there may be programmers for whom the nuts and bolts of language and syntax provides a sense of mastery. And I feel sorry for them that the market forces are going to devalue this.

But it should also be recognized that this is not a universal. I love vibe engineering because I love design, architecture and algorthims. And I love building products that delight people. There's probably others like me out there.

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@kiaran_ritchie Well said and exactly how I feel

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@tsoding Ai paranoia is setting in for many people. It sucks cause you're gonna spend the next few years melting down for no reason

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@SymoneBeez Cuz it found a device on a local network? Why are people so impressed by this

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@chrisgpt I mean... I use it for controlling smart objects too it's not that hard it's just basic local network api calls

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@__alula *llms can enable people to make new and interesting games faster

How's that?

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@theKimansta @notch @Grummz Sounds like you bought a bunch of them before the crash. Sorry man, hope you recover

[Game Dev @vidGameDev]

@theKimansta @notch @Grummz Call them whatever you want they didn't work and only dorks used them