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@ZachWarunek @rauchg @v0 @xai

@ZachWarunek @rauchg @v0 Can you please put me in touch with one of the people at xAI? 🥰 (This 'Pressing Enter key submits the prompt on Android' bug is killing me)

Protip: Create an X group chat with your best and most demanding customers. Put your engineering leads in said group chat. Respond and ship quickly. Face the music. We have one going for @v0. DM if you want to be a part of it and are committed to sharing excellent feedback.

@tamitami020343 Thank you for doing this! It's strange when I see five rooks on a board.

チェスの絵で盤面を褒めてもらえることが意外と多いのですが、実は「SmallFish」というガイド機能の付いたアプリでそれっぽい盤面を作っています

@Joshuacarsonart Imo it needs more ram and a little less shackle

concept for a ramshackle elevator

@realJarNod @NilesSankey You are remembering correctly.

@NilesSankey Wasn’t he the original composer at halo? Or am I misremembering?

Does anyone know who this Marty guy is? He keeps asking me to be on his podcast. His channel seems really popular. Should I say yes?

@JTAlexander I've noticed that it's much more likely to do this in the last few days. @xai fix the Enter bug on Android please.

I’ve noticed a problem with LLMs that is getting significantly worse over time. The problem is them making up their own instructions or inserting their own programmed biases into the data requested. This was always a thing but it’s gotten bad. I asked Grok to give me a list to roughly gauge who the top pitchers this season will likely be. My request was simple: Best ERA over the past five years, minimum of 90 innings pitched, and no bias against the new guys. Grok gave me a whole table just to include a note at the end, “Hey some other authority said your data criteria sucked so I did something else completely.” Not only did Grok do this, but he did it *again* after I explicitly told it not to do so. It took three attempts before it would include Paul Skenes or Yoshi Yamamoto. But here’s the kicker—now I don’t trust the table. I can’t trust that this table is right because Grok refused to follow my instructions. How do I know that Skenes and Yoshi were the only new guys missing? I don’t know that. I can’t know that unless I go look it all up myself like in the old days. I might as well just go look at the reference sites again.

@Sinnoware When I first played their game I was amazed they managed to fit a proper physics engine onto a Switch title. Imagine my shock when I learned they fit two!

The achievements of the programming/engineering team behind Tears of the Kingdom cannot be overstated. They implemented designers’ ideas that would likely have been cut in other studios, and unquestionably delivered on the game’s “multiplicative gameplay” philosophy.

@allie__voss I use it to waste water

You can tell a lot about people by how they use AI Some people use it to do less work, others use it to do more

@BritHugoboom Preach!

Video games get unnecessary hate. I realize I’m a small minority on the RW adjacent side because I’ve always been pro video games but for good reason. Gamers have immaculate taste in the arts. Scrolling your phone is infinitely worse than playing a video game. I’ll never forget the first time I played Pokémon red version with my dad. It was a great bonding activity as a kid and instilled a competitive nature that helped me in all aspects of my life. Or playing “The Last of Us” with my husband. Watching him discover video games for the first time through “Skyrim.” Working with Nintendo at E3 each year to battle people from all over the world in the new Super Smash Brothers game. The hatred of video games is a hatred of the best art of our generation. The most talented composers have gone to video games. The best storylines come from video games. All of the top creatives have gone to video games and they do infinitely more in revenue than the most successful films. Playing video games from the age of 7-10, helped me in school. It made testing and memorization effortless. What does DNA stand for? “Deoxyribonucleic Acid” obviously because Deoxys is the DNA pokémon. What was the coin used in Ancient Greece? Drachma. I played “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.” Scrolling on social media can destroy your creativity. It turns you into a consumer instead of a creator. Whereas video games require decision making and you to use your reflexes. Also Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy is one of the most likable female characters ever. I WISH Hollywood would take note!

@SandyofCthulhu It's amazing how good the humans look given when Shrek came out.

A programmer at Ensemble Studios (hi, Matt) interviewed the programmer who was responsible for the CGI hair on Shrek. He said there was like 18 months of toil to make it work. But they did. Now look at it.

@teachrobotslove I'm not old, but I'm not a native to AI. That world might not be as easy for me to navigate, so I may not be able to enjoy the beauty it brings.

@tugmoat How so?

I've noticed that grok says my code has 4 bugs. I fix 1-2 of them, and then it says I have no bugs. I think it's because the logic errors create inconsistencies in how it thinks about my code, and it tries to account for them in multiple places, causing this strange "incorrect" behaviour. I often wonder if LLMs do something similar for data. Maybe the way it flip flops from gentle pressure is because there are errors in the data that we don't see.

A major reason I don't trust Claude to do its own statistical analyses yet is because sometimes you can just ask it 'Is that right? Seems wrong.' and then everything it's written so far changes. It's not very thorough and will tell you and update to obviously erroneous things.

@BenWilsonTweets This isn't sociopathic.

One of the best (and most sociopathic) interview responses Steve Jobs ever gave. Interviewer: What are your weaknesses? Steve Jobs: Hard to say. But here are some of my strengths...

@SebAaltonen They do this with all sorts of stuff. I wonder if they're getting to be too human 😔

LLM failing to compile project. I am debugging it. Turns out it didn't follow the instructions in AGENTS.MD file. LLMs response when I asked whether the build steps are missing in AGENTS.MD: > Yes. It is already in AGENTS.md, and I should have followed it.

@stevenspohn Accessibility cannot be turned off because in most games because it's part of the game's core design. E.g. hold to confirm, or colour schemes that accommodate colour blindness.

My right to access a game supersedes your right to immersion. Accessibility options can be turned off, leaving your immersion intact. My disability cannot be switched off. Your desire to brag about beating a difficult game should not be fulfilled at the cost of people like me.

@LumpyTheCook What are the mechanisms that prevent studio structures like this?

Western studio games will never reach the heights they did from the early 1990s to the early 2010s again because there is a series of massive industry-wide mechanisms which exist specifically to prevent studio structures like this from existing anymore.

@visualbasic97 If you're struggling, try to incorporate oil-based sauces in your foods. You can also go a *long* way by eating fewer, larger meals.

i could have this meal 3 times a day for breakfast lunch and dinner and i still won’t get 2,000 calories what the fuck are you fat fucks eating

i’ve been trying to go to the gym and gain weight recently after being anorexic basically my entire life and i never realized how difficult it is to eat 2,000 calories a day. you genuinely just have to not stop eating all day. this is ridiculous

@SpencerKlavan I strongly suggest you look into how Alpha School is actually run.

This is child abuse.

@AntigoneJournal This is why I wear a shirt with "Clothes shouldn't talk" on it

I was about nine when my great grandfather said that there was nothing more vulgar than clothing with writing on it. Since then I've become a keen defender of sports kits and band shirts, but I fundamentally can't shake the core spirit of the observation: clothes shouldn't talk.