Deestan @ Deestan @lemmy.world

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The awards are fun when I compare my vote list with my friends' vote list, but the actual awards are just annoyingly pointless.

The winner of each category is predictable immediately. It will only ever be the game with the highest number of players and the category doesn't matter.

If GTA6 comes out in 2026 and posts "we are hoping to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award", it's going to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-poached-apples-top-design-guys-to-fix-its-software-ui/

The guy who pushed that was so bad at his job he eventually got head hunted by Meta.

If it is getting worse, you can't expect it to improve on their part without pressure.

Unless you allow divorce to be an option, at least quietly, you are not going to be able to put pressure on them to change.

Will you be able to increase your tolerance to allow for it?

Both.

My grocery list is just to prevent me forgetting the main points. So three items on the list "cat litter, dinner somehow, bake a cake" turns into any number of things bought as I decide on what to make for dinner and which cake to bake while shopping.

RRR

We will launch a very deep and very thorough investigation into this matter.

We ask that reporting and inquiries are kept to a minimum as to not hinder the investigation.

It is expected to last for however long it takes for everyone to forget about this, so nobody will bother to look it up and complain that the result of the investigation is "🤷 hard to say who is at fault lol"

For one, it will be the first step to start a real conversation about re-legalizing pizza.

"Alpha male" is horoscope bullshit for dudebros.

I think you are looking for people to say your mom is a bitch.

She very likely didn't say that in those words. If your intent was to understand her better in order to come up with counterarguments, you should not strawman whatever she said into oblivion.

Um actually this is a possible result of the Boltzmann effect. I did not read the theory properly but I am verysmart and anything that makes me feel superior is basically correct.

If it was possible I surely would have for my last two computers. At least mine came with nubs and corners that enforced one orientation.

Yeah what you say makes sense to me. Having it make a "wrong start" in something new is useful, as it gives you a lot of the typical structure, introduces the terminology, maybe something sorta moving that you can see working before messing with it, etc.

One time it worked to quickly turn off and pull out the smoking chip (cpu cache extender) flip it 180 degrees and try again. No apparent permanent damage.

This was a very directed experiment at purely LLM written maintainable code.

Writing experiments and proof of concepts, even without skill, will give a different calculation and can make more sense.

Having it write a "starting point" and then take over, also is a different thing that can make more sense. This requires a coder with skill, you can't skip that.

I've been coding for a while. I did an honest eager attempt at making a real functioning thing with all code written by AI. A breakout clone using SDL2 with music.

The game should look good, play good, have cool effects, and be balanced. It should have an attractor screen, scoring, a win state and a lose state.

I also required the code to be maintainable. Meaning I should be able to look at every single line and understand it enough to defend its existence.

I did make it work. And honestly Claude did better than expected. The game ran well and was fun.

But: The process was shit.

I spent 2 days and several hundred dollars to babysit the AI, to get something I could have done in 1 day including learning SDL2.

Everything that turned out well, turned out well because I brought years of skill to the table, and could see when Claude was coding itself into a corner and tell it to break up code in modules, collate globals, remove duplication, pull out abstractions, etc. I had to detect all that and instruct on how to fix it. Until I did it was adding and re-adding bugs because it had made so much shittily structured code it was confusing itself.

TLDR; LLM can write maintainable code if given full constant attention by a skilled coder, at 40% of the coder's speed.

There was a glorious time in the 90s when PC building had enough stuff going on and not yet enough safeguards that I could actually put things in wrong and start a small fire.

Those were exciting days. And sometimes expensive.

"Natural" means healthy

You shouldn't. The side effects turn out to usually be more harmful than the cancer.

https://xkcd.com/1217/