David Owens II

@rfleury It’s been great for getting a through a lot of prototypes or experiments (focused on UX not API experimentation). For real code that I’m happy with, still lacking for me. Pretty good as an advanced code gen (applying existing patterns out) and code flow analysis though.

From what I can tell, ~100% of the “vibecoded” applications people have posted about (as opposed to targeted use of LLMs for specific language-data/wrangling related problems) are expensive toys for the people prompting for them. Users do not care in the way people keep claiming they do. And they seem to have trouble selling it to users. But I’m sure everything will be OK if they keep pouring in more investments.

@AngryJoeShow @bordeauxyoutube Stop buying EA games.

EA has Crossed the Line ONCE AGAIN! Added Microtransactions and PAY to WIN to our College Football SINGLE PLAYER games! Angry Rant Incoming! #CFBPlayDontPay @bordeauxyoutube

Even the tweets are written by AI now.

Quit your job. Chase your passions. Take the risk. It's how I went from making $11,000 a month to $1,300

@rebeccaatrades go live, take out the profits as soon as possible and stop using prop firms.

So here’s where I’m at now with alpha and my accounts and I need advice: I have 90K in profits across my 3 accounts that have now been closed and was set to take a SECOND 45K payout tomorrow. I’m left with two options: 1) go live with 3 x $4500 accounts and I can forfeit ALL OTHER PROFITS (70%) for 80% split in live OR 2) go live with 3 x $4500 accounts and take my sim profits in monthly payouts ($3400 a month for 12 months) with a 60% split in live and I lose the $3400 payments if I lose the accounts. What would you do??

I've been using grok imagine for some concept art - not bad, generates some cool images. As soon as I start to get specific about things though, it quickly breaks down and does some funny stuff. No idea how people think they can actually use this stuff in projects though.

Why are playlists on YouTUBE so much better than Apple Music? Kind of ridiculous.

@cmuratori They are still trying to figure out how to that into a service you have to pay for, sorry.

Which stage of AI do we need to hit before I can reliably eject a USB drive from a Windows PC?

@RyanPCooke @mitchellh Well, the thing is, Claude will actually tell you that it can't create the PR. So if you do it anyways, you either don't read the AI output (which is to Mitchell's point) or you don't care (which is also to Mitchell's point).

@mitchellh your argument unavoidably boils down to, in some scenarios, humans are superior to ai at coding. even if that scenario is catching a dumb human trick. i get it, it's hard to fully embrace the idea that ai is better than you at your job. i struggle too big fan of your work btw

silly humans who still think they are better at coding than datacenters full of PHDs, resorting to sabotage

This implies that cities like Manhattan are actually good; I'd argue these types of cities are the exact opposite of what we should be building: local, self-sufficient communities built with walking and community structures in mind.

@trashh_dev Sorry, but it's, "I bet I could one-shot vscode, it's not that hard".

were back to this

@CoachDBA Hope you took some profits.

Netflix & Chilling with this NQ short 😜 Currently up over $3,500 total.

@Jonathan_Blow @_L_four_ @FakePsyho I ran it on my Linux laptop and the movement with keyboard felt terrible, but on the steam deck with a controller it was fine. The aesthetics of the game don’t match the control feel with a keyboard. Game is beautiful though.

@_L_four_ @FakePsyho This is something that we can tune further before release… but yeah I also don’t think trying to time based on where you are standing is really the best way to do it. But some things can be done to make it work better.

Some thoughts after finishing the demo: - In general, I have mixed feelings about the game. I loved Braid and The Witness - they were both revolutionary when they came out and had a huge impact on the puzzle genre. This game looks like something that was done multiple times in the past 10 years: minimalistic sokoban-like that has a limited ruleset that leads to an explosion of different interactions. The only difference is the size of the game. Don't get me wrong, it's still going to have a lot of amazing puzzles - a lot of great puzzle designers are involved in this game. A huge solid game, nothing more. - Despite how it was advertised, the demo is far from long and in general is on the same par as the inspiration games (Mirror Isles, Heroes of Sokoban) or worse (Promesst). - It features probably the worst movement I ever saw in a (polished) puzzle game; it's clunky, it looks ugly and often gets in a way of execution your logic. The game has a ton of traversing in various places, so it really is a major issue that never goes away. - I don't remember any puzzle game that has so much useless dialog happening. In the intro, there are multiple places where you have to stand still for prolonged time in order to not have an overlapping dialog. I feel that Jonathan Blow from the previous games, would absolutely hate that, so I'm really confused about this decision. There's an announcement that on Friday the demo will get another 35 puzzles, so I might do another stream Friday night or Saturday. And that's it. Honestly, I'm not recommending the demo, especially if you're an experienced puzzle solver. If you're looking for an interesting and approachable sokoban-like with an overworld, I highly recommend Isles of Sea and Sky instead.

@ThePrimeagen I thought it was because it stopped recommending 10k micro-services.

I heard the reason why Amazon reported on Fable to the government is because Fable was unable to fix how bad AWS's UI is.

Well, it would take significantly less time if we were taxed so heavily already.

E-ink tech is crazy and basically nobody cares, there's 60hz panels out there, they're currently really expensive but imagine a world where you can look at a screen all day that's in colour and not have a backlight burning your retinas

In your claim: I didn't pirate the inputs, another company did. I state this as it changes the avenue for the legal argument here. For example, if I can show that it wrote materially similar code to what I would have done, just faster, then you don't really have the transference of stolen goods argument. However, if it's writing an unpublished algorithm stolen from some private code base (or unlicensed use of), then I clearly have stolen goods in my work. Microsoft has broken many laws. Can I still use their software and expect those laws to be upheld to my works? If a company settles any wrong doing and is then allowed to continue the course, can I then use it? Or we can go with: two wrongs don't make a right. Another line of reasoning is one of "good faith". Is your game truly a derivative or unique experience or is it a direct rip-off? I use AI for coding as it speeds up development. However, I review it all and tell it to re-write stuff in a way that I want it a lot. I'd argue that is more "good faith" usage vs. a "vibe coded" game. All this said, I really wish AI models would be trained in an ethical manner to at least make this part of the AI discussion a non-issue. Here's your public domain LLM, here's your licensed LLM and this % of your fee goes to the authors, etc.

For people using AI in commercial game development: I'd be interested in hearing the best arguments as to why you think people should pay for the resulting game instead of pirating it. Concisely, if you pirated the inputs, why shouldn't they pirate the output?

The SURPRISE is: x.com/SinkingStarGam… Order of the Sinking Star will have a free demo on Steam, for NextFest, Monday. Because the game is HUGE, the demo is huge: it's bigger than most entire paid puzzle games, and you get to try it out for free.

@lanto_trades 4 mil, easy. And that's with a family of 8 assuming no additional income. 2 mil in the bank and I still need to work, but the pressure is off for 10 years.

w much money would you need to never worry about money again? Give me liquid + per month. Curious.

@Topstep Well... unless you DLL... then you might need to wait a few more days.

By the time you're done reading this sentence, your instant payout could be in your bank account. Let's test that theory #TopstepSpeedrun ⬇️