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@InOneProjects @UsuallyTheHero @RagimMusakaev @sebastien_and @fabiensnauwaert It truly is.

@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.

#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? ⬇️

It really was an experience creating this. It's the first time in a long time I've felt proud to reach the end. And playing all the other games and thinking how many others would have felt the same way made me feel that the future will be beautiful. My favourites are hoverx and neon runner - their creators were attentive to the parts of the experience that make games thrilling.

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

Thank you for the review, Tone. I created Mazima because I believe all the experiences I've ever had in games were far more than the game itself; it was about the people I spoke to or played with, even if I never know their names. In the background, where you see the glowing orbs travelling, they each represent another player in the world moving alongst the valley with you in realtime. The world of Mazima is a circular valley you travel all the way around with other players. They are all around you; you just can't see them.

@UsuallyTheHero @RagimMusakaev @sebastien_and @fabiensnauwaert @JohnOcens Mazima: I have no idea what I played. Maybe an art game of some kind? I will have "there's only one thing on my mind" repeating in my head for the next couple days, I'm sure.

@visakanv @lauren_wilford Reading this is as enjoyable; as if I'm watching it all over again.

this review of Interstellar (2014) by @lauren_wilford is one of the best things I’ve read in a while

@s13k_ It's always the fundamentals that count. Thank you.

One thing you might consider adding if you find the LLM being too aggressive: ## CALIBRATION When uncertain whether something is generic vs project-specific, keep it.

~80% of your .md is filler your AI already knows and you're wasting your context and tokens on “please write clean code” Strip it to pure signal using following prompt:

Really nice piece of writing. You breakdown and structure, and reference ideas that readers may have lacked the context of very very well. Some minor feedback. This "The output of third derivative workers is a multiplicative factor on the superlinear function of second derivative workers based on the number of second derivative workers they can coordinate." was very difficult to parse, and you dabble in & out of prose like this. You already explain such concepts simply + with ease, so I'd love to see you maintain that smoothness throughout the piece.

from: humaninvariant.com/blog/3-d-work

Solved: selling orientation [in the OODA loop sense] is the highest leverage thing you can do, thus it's the highest paid

@reach_vb @viemccoy @xlr8harder @thsottiaux @steipete Incredibly helpful. Thank you for this. My life this past week would have been much much more painful without.

@viemccoy @xlr8harder @thsottiaux @steipete this is perfect application of hooks (experimental) in codex, you can use the “stop” hook for this! chat made a quick tutorial for you - let me know if that doesn’t work or if you have any feedback on this :) chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/…

I've been leaning more on gpt-5.4 in codex than opus in claude code lately. I have come to trust gpt-5.4-high to be more organized and complete in its approach. but how do i get gpt-5.4 to actually keep working without constantly stopping for reassurance? who has tricks here

@47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT Maybe :)

@JohnOcens @boneGPT Thank you, that's very kind. I have released the book! Just not promoted it here publicly yet and still on the fence about doing so. Maybe one day.

have a book i've been working on and even though i love slop it feels disrespectful to the ideas and the art for me to generate a movie of it with AI like it will go from being my first book to another disposable post

@47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT I enjoy your writing; I'll read it. I've a film we spent 3 years and 100k on; it's importance to me is that it'll be last thing in my original discipline, the one I love, that's unmolested by something generative. If u promise to release the book, I'll release the film.

@boneGPT It's free--it's written in a way that it cannot be monetized. The issue is just getting attention...which, yeah, get big.

@47fucb4r8c69323 that's a lot of time but I'll wait

The kind of fact the industry doesn't like talking about and that I'll be proving in detail in about six months, stay tuned kids (and Yann, you're gonna love it I promise).

I started making music a couple years ago, and then I merged generative audio models within my process. What was profound about it is how music feels like pockets of psychologically potent patterns that are allure us. The creative process is you (or me) finding a pocket then feeling our way around for one that is more and more potent. I believe music itself is very efficient. Many combinations but simple patterns. I could feel from my work making films, then music, then software, it's all so similar. It's all the same thing - the "creative process". audio models also gravitate towards these patterns in such a way that it's obvious there's a hidden grammar through it all. To your point, I've a hundred songs where I can almost hear from how it feels from its 1st iteration to what it would feel like when it's truly done. And I organise myself around intuiting that one song isn't worth going further because it would need much more moulding than the other, and even still, wouldn't elicit the emotional potency I want from it at that moment in time. I'm sure this mirrors Lean On's process - just that it got finished because it made sense. That was a hell of a time btw. Song was everywhere.

@nosilverv In fact, the parts that hold it back *the most* seem somewhat fine in isolation (for 2016-era pop music). I wouldn't know to cut those! Perhaps it's just that whole thing seems chaotic without its own identity? Weird fills, all over the place?

Lean On took 2 years (!!) and 100 version (!!) from demo to being published. I'm OBSESSED with the anthropology of creativity and CANNOT understand why it isn't studied

@DeadlessHick @KenTFresno @paleonormie meat piston? what's that? a pneumatic expression of an extraordinary ability to receive the pump? zhooosh! zhooosh! zhooosh!

@KenTFresno @paleonormie She weighed more than me bro lol I was only entertaining her because "investing early" (she was newly subscribed to Ozempic) and she was an avid meat piston enthusiast.

Men shouldn't try to marry up, I know it sounds fun and exciting but eventually you end up at a gallery opening in SoHo regretting every decision that put you here and desperately wishing you were backpacking through the pouring rain somewhere

@NickBurns wonderful writing

I wrote about how the modern age shrunk hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…

@KamalMokeddem @bayeslord 🤣

@bayeslord Interesting times ahead.

you know, when leopold posted situational awareness I was primarily upset for one reason. still rarely discussed, and I don’t bring it up so as not to summon it. but maybe it’s time to have that conversation

@martin_casado sfx and music are soo nice can u release an ost?

The low poly meshes I created are much, much faster with physics / collision than those directly from the splat to mesh translation. Amazing. I now have an end to end workflow for generated 3D worlds with usable collisions. Works great in VR and mobile too ...

@TedMerz @jasminewsun I second this. Spent a day at the end of last year reading, and I just kept going to the next one and the next one across all of your posts, Ted. Really really excellent writing and distilling of information.

@jasminewsun the Terminalist Substack has the best overview of why the business has a moat. I've written more about the culture. my pieces can be found on my web site here : ted-merz.com/category/bloom… Shoot me a DM

Request for article: a deeply researched history of the Bloomberg Terminal It accounts for the vast majority of Bloomberg’s profits, costs $25k/seat, the UI hasn’t changed since 1981, and it’s one of the stickiest and most ubiquitous enterprise software products ever

@DavidSHolz everyone who is taking full advantage of "vibe coding" isn't advertising their work as such because it delegitimises them

who are the best vibe coders in the world right now? what are the most impressive vibe coded projects out there which aren't just something done in a single day or two?