Tim Ermilov

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Ah, yes, truly the gaming search I've been looking for.

I built a "Predatory Game Detector" for Steam. Turns out, AI thinks "This game is a gem" means it has mtx 🤦‍♂️ Here is the "JSON trick" I used to force a lazy LLM to catch the actual scams across 150000 reviews. 👇 patreon.com/posts/i-built-… #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

I upgraded Vaporlens to Mistral embeddings and accidentally broke game discovery. Turns out, the "smarter" context window approach actually made recommendations worse. Here is how I fixed it with simple math: patreon.com/posts/148373760 #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

Vapolens blew up and now I'm getting death threats email re: LLM usage. Ah, internet 😅

@FahmiZFX thanks! ❤️ this makes even more happy after receiving death threats re: LLM usage 😅

@yamalight Not in particular about this feature, but saw your LLM being used in AugmentedSteam in a new update (noticed it when scrolling). I can say for sure, this is the kind of AI usage that very useful for everyone. Can't agree enough of your ad lib on TBiscuits's take on reviews.

I just added AI-generated audio summaries to VaporLens. It turns thousands of reviews into a short podcast for any game. Give it a listen: vaporlens.app/app/1928420/fa… #gamedev #AI #Gaming #Steam

@_mandaputtra I am indeed. Thanks! :D

@yamalight You are the author. I used it yesterday, indeed usefull

Alright, I've finally finished version of VaporLens - an app that condenses Steam reviews into clear pros, cons, and insights - I can share. So, here y'all go - one-page game summaries using steam customer reviews. I think it came out quite nicely. Still lots of ideas though :D

@kerissakti Thanks! Love to hear that it was useful :D

@yamalight I just found out about Vaporlens yesterday, very cool tool! Keep it up 👍

And now the branches won't even finish deploying 🙃

Supabase has an issue with deleting preview branches they can't fix for some reason for weeks already. We accumulated almost 70$ bill just for this month because of that. Like, holy shit 🙈

Check it out here: vaporlens.app

Nvidia should be banned from making charts

Caught an amusing bug in Gemini - giving it an image with metric system chart will reliably trip safety system and block ANY responses from it, even with filters disabled 😅

Node.js now supports TypeScript. Wrote up a full summary (posted below). Here's the juiciest bit - the TSConfig you'll need to run it:

Can't stop thinking about that idea of extracting "features" of games from reviews instead of relying on rigid set of tags. Especially so after latest video from @JoshStrifeHayes on top MMOs. Should really find time to test this 🤔

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@kiwicopple Sure. Here's a long-ish write up on gists: gist.github.com/yamalight/7ff1… That's far from all the grievances we've experienced in past couple of weeks, but the major pain points are definitely there.

@yamalight Can you share more? We’d love to fix anything we can - feel free to brain dump and I can share it with the team

Supabase migrations are an absolute mess. Why is their 2.0 not focused on improving that but instead adds AI stuff to it is beyond me.

@JoshStrifeHayes I play like 90% of games on easy (especially story-driven ones). Ain't nobody got time to try-hard bosses, I just wanna see the story.

'Didn't really finish the game, doesn't know how to play, tourist'. There are many people who link thier sense of self worth to spending more time than others in video games, or playing them on hard. So, going forward, I just won't tell you if I play on easy. Lol. Lmao even.

1/2 This post is a confession. In my Dragon Age Origins video, after dying to bosses a lot and losing irl gym time to retries, i turned the difficulty down. I show this in the video, and have since gotten hundreds of 'scrub, casual, weak, skill issue, journo difficulty' dm's.