Stefan Reinalter

Dear Squeaks, Thank you giving us 2 more days for saying our goodbyes. Thank you for 10 years of your companionship, your affection, and your love. You were such a kind and gentle soul. Know that we loved you every single step of our way together. You will be dearly missed.

@LifeArtStudios CI/CD, deployment scripts, version control servers, backups, ... UE and others are middleware.

@molecularmusing What does it mean in your case?

I find this extremely worrying, with many of people I respect saying things like "I no longer write code" or "let LLMs do it". Why did you start programming? Was it never the journey for you, but only the goal? I genuinely want to understand this, I seem to be the odd one out.

@LifeArtStudios Ah, sorry, infrastructure means something different to me.

@molecularmusing At which point in the last 10 years? The last 3-4 was unreal engine, meta quest platform, android, and several middle layers.

@LifeArtStudios Curious, what infrastructure are you fighting?

@molecularmusing It's both, but for me it was a vehicle to bigger tasks. I may need to set up guard rails, but really this is ok because I'm free to research and understand more instead of spending time fighting infrastructure.

@webprofusion @s4schoener @Danukeru It's documented of course, but I really can't tell you more. It's for what I'm working on currently: youtube.com/watch?v=K_sdN5… (the YT description has a bit of technical info)

@molecularmusing @s4schoener @Danukeru Cool, I have no clue about ps5 Dev. So the regular API is documented or not? Is it just a bunch of method definitions and you have to work out what they do?

@webprofusion @s4schoener @Danukeru No, doesn't use anything internal, only regular API calls.

@molecularmusing @s4schoener @Danukeru Off topic but I assume this means discovering and using internal system API calls, surely Sony can update their firmware and break those, since they weren't published or part of an SDK?

@badlogicgames @rovarma That is true!

@molecularmusing @rovarma you have a website and docs and desktop GUI tho, which is all very annoying to keep up to date :D

@badlogicgames @rovarma I know it's a stretch, but we've all seen crazy things happen, and I don't want to be on the receiving end of the stick. Hope that's understandable, I can see why others are not concerned about this that much.

@badlogicgames @rovarma Lastly, still not going to ever let AI generate code for me, not until everything's been settled in court. Imagine by some weird ruling that US companies can no longer use software that contained AI-generated code: I'd be out of business tomorrow.

@rovarma HN never disappoints.

Writing-on-the-internet-achievement unlocked: mean-spirited comment by HN commenter who has clearly not read the article 🏆

i'm clearly not as deeply technical as you, but i like to think of myself as some who cares about their craft. what i'm seeing is an industry wide change (and hype) that i want to understand as deeply as i understand other areas of my craft. only then can i know what actually works, craft-wise and what doesn't. a lot that's paddled to "work" by grifters and corps that need to sell you that vision does not. but there are things that do actually work and are helpful wrt my craft. a big part of developing my craft over the decades was to learn new tools and see if they help me in anyway at creating good code, be it directly, or indirectly by saving me time with non-coding or coding related tasks. this is another such tool. but it's a tool that hasn't found it's final form yet. and i'd like to figure out what it's final form may look like, just as i liked to figure out how to write a debugger or a compiler and all the nitty gritty details that entailed downstream. for me, this is about learning new things for my craft, not replacing me andy coding skills. that's a very thin line tho, which is super easy to cross without discipline.

@badlogicgames Thanks for these insights, as you were one of the people that inspired my post. I fully respect your work and wanted to know what I'm missing.

@ValidatesUser @Aspie96 Hard no, gatekeeping much. Let people do what they enjoy.

@Aspie96 @molecularmusing There are lots of inner city kids learn to code programs Keep the farming kids in the peasant class

@Aspie96 @ValidatesUser Kudos to my father at this point who introduced me to this.

@molecularmusing @ValidatesUser It's very very nice you had access to learning resources at that age. I know it's not rare, some start even earlier, but sadly many that would be interested don't have access to resources. This is OT, I know, but we really should get more learning tools in the hands of children.

@IGNNordic @RyanJuckett Congrats @RyanJuckett , that's some high praise!

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@s4schoener @webprofusion @Danukeru I already have what I need ;)

@molecularmusing @webprofusion @Danukeru Let me know if I can be of any help in setting that experiment up. I'll happily pay for whatever this takes on the AI side and set something up on your end. (Not to convince you, but because I am equally interested in the outcome.) Nothing beats doing the actual experiment :)

@ValidatesUser Started at 6 or 7 on the C64, then MS-DOS, then Windows. Worked in gamedev for almost 10 years, started my own company at 29, 15th anniversary next year. Bit of background story with videos from things I worked on at the age of 13/14: blog.molecular-matters.com/2014/08/01/a-b…

@molecularmusing Right We’re you learning to code as a kid or has you learned how to code enterprise level code?