Cyberspace Sam 🤠

I enjoy writing code because I find it fun to solve logic puzzles (akin to solving sudoku). But I also love building things and power tools. I think it’s awesome when someone builds beautiful things using ancient hand-powered tools. Personally I’ll opt for a skill-saw. That doesn’t mean that hand-saws suck.

It might just be a bad choice of words here but I think the idea that loving computers is conflated with loving programming is going to be looked back on as an incomprehensible error. Of *course* programming by hand sucked, the goal is to get computers to do what you want!

@NimaZeighami 🤚

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@NimaZeighami We all know that you didn’t need to be dared to ask your question 😉

Soft robotics is wild. I’m at a meetup focused explicitly on tentacle design😭 Shape, material selection, actuation, payload, the whole nine yards. Anime enthusiasts would be proud. Anyone dare me to ask the speaker about consumer usecases?

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A good creative tool should let people make ugly but unexpected things, I think. Any new capability that yields only beautiful things is a subtle kind of tyranny.

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@iBrews I find that all of the AVP environments feel cold. It seems like an odd but intentional choice.

LOVE the new Apple Immersive Environment of THORSMORK. Cold weather and mountains and water and wind and northern lights yes directly into my veins thank you very much.

@16vchq BLAMO!

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Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

Huh! Funny, I haven’t thought of virtual social experiences as training for a long while. But I just remembered that, as a teenager, I wrote an essay about that very idea because of my experiences in LambdaMOO (a text-based virtual world of the early internet). I learned many important lessons there.

I’ve always felt that the essence of VR is not just Ready Player One. It is closer to Ender’s Game. It is not simply a virtual world that lets people escape reality. It is a low-cost, high-frequency, diverse training ground with fast feedback. People go through repeated experiences and receive repeated feedback, until their understanding of something reaches a depth that is very hard to achieve in the real world. The same is true of relationships in VRChat. Those encounters, moments of closeness, pain, separation, and self-repair may look like emotional exhaustion inside a virtual world, but they are also a form of high-density interpersonal training. So the deepest value of VR is not escaping reality, but helping people understand reality faster.

@gfodor I tend to say “we made this” and name who worked on it with me. Like my agent and I built this. Or Claude and I came up with this plan. Because it really couldn’t have done it without me and vice versa. It would be sad if my judgement is no longer valuable but that’s not today.

Thread. I thought I was immune from ever feeling hollowed out by AI as a programmer, because I've always gotten far more enjoyment from shipping, getting users, and solving problems than indulging in the art of coding. As the LLMs have eaten deeper and deeper into our field, I've empathized with my peers who've expressed a sense of loss and disillusionment as the art of programming has become more and more automated. But, I've always seen myself as someone who saw coding as a means to an end to solve problems. Not something whose craftsmanship, culture, methodologies, and fads were worth getting too hung up on, beyond what was needed to adeptly deliver value to others and not fall behind the (frankly, rare) genuine advancements over the years. This all changed for me over the last week. The frontier probably shifted a bit earlier than today, but I didn't see it until now. The change has come about for me because GPT-5.5 was able to build complex software I needed built autonomously for 2-3 days at a clip. Work that would have taken me months, or even years if you include learning the requisite languages, libraries, and tooling, being completed over a weekend. This isn't something I think anyone who has been programming as long as I have can really be prepared for, this kind of velocity jump is just mindboggling. This is truly superhuman performance - it's not perfect, and there certainly is a level of simplicity and clarity that would come in the hands of the world's best programmers, but that margin is so small so as to be unnoticable when contrasted with the sheer volume of working software that it can produce per unit time. So, why has this caused a shift in the way I feel about these technologies, after all this time not having felt it as each subsequent model advanced closer to what we see now? There are two reasons. First, it's clear that the age of humans understanding how software works is over. Yes, humans will need to understand things, at least for a few more years, but we are now at a kind of escape velocity where the % of lines of code that are created every year that are even read, nevermind understood, by humans, is now permanently declining. But the real shift, is I am no longer a programmer, I am a manager. Good managers do not take credit for the work of their team - they see themselves in service of their team. Up until now, claiming "I built this" still felt true when talking about things I had created with the help of LLMs. But now, when the LLMs are writing thousands of lines of code, and I am simply providing guidance, direction setting, and oversight to catching the bigger errors, I found myself in the bizarre situation (that many will be in soon, I presume) of no longer feeling entitled to take credit for the work being done. Not being able to say "I built this" when sharing something whose basic conception came from my own mind, but under the tireless effort of these insane machines to actually reason through and materialize into a working solution, is devastating. Not because of the fact it doesn't feel truthful now, but because I know it will never be truthful again for myself and soon for all of the rest of us.

One of my favorite creations on BLAMO started with the prompt “monkeys throwing bananas” and led to this adorable Atari style two button runner, Monkey Kong! Play it here: blamo.ai/vibes/1993a92e…

80’s style text adventure terminal for modern mobile phones. Why? Because you can try it out in one shot. BLAMO! Play CYBER_DECK: blamo.ai/vibes/91711ad8…

@fruitwithnop To each their own dogshit!💩

@semateos Or you could just play games made by people (orders of magnitude more fun) & not support dogshit AI drivel 👍

Make game mashups in an instant with BLAMO! blamo.ai/s/68Luy

@babyTV_feed Fun! Try making one on BLAMO? It’ll do weird text adventure mashups too: blamo.ai/vibes/781cdd12…

@semateos Very cool. I'm doing classic literature text adventure mashups... ProtagonistApp.com

It’s a big bucket of slop! But it turns out that it’s also fun to make and play games this way. The speed of trying out ideas. Seeing the weird shit your friends make. Being spontaneously creative with code while waiting in line. Certainly a better way to spend your time than writing dogshit comments.

@semateos Oh boy a dogshit generator