Greg Meyer

@GergelyOrosz i use coding agents to debug, i point it at the datadog mcp and it will frequently find the issue itself

The chatter about generating code with AI tools feels stuck at the "basic" level of... well, codegen, plus (perhaps) reviews and testing. I hear close to little talk about the things that come right after generating code: deploying, canarying, o11y, SLOs, error budgets etc

Total token use as a measure of AI literacy is wrong headed. In my experience, after some baseline, more token use is inversely correlated with competency using AI.

owner of a pizza shop wants you to buy large cheese pizza every day

@NuclearWinter69 @Der_Kernel_ marketing pushes the number up to like 80m

@NuclearWinter69 @Der_Kernel_ FF7 cost 40 million to make in 1997 and was at the time the most expensive game ever made, and was probably the first true AAA game

The more I look at my childhood favorite games, and look at where the companies are now, I’ve realized that triple A games have never been good. A lot of our old favorites like Halo, Oblivion, Fallout New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed 2, Spyro, Sims, and so many others were developed by teams of 20 bros making some shit they’d want to play. It wasn’t until these companies went corporate, shareholders, bureaucratization, teams of over 300 that they started to fumble, lose sight of the vision. It feels like almost monthly we see some of the talented minds of our “golden age” leaving these corporations to peruse their own independent projects. 20 years, dedicated to something you created, and walking away. Then of course it always comes out later that there was some colossal miss management, miss treatment, broken promises and threats that inevitably become the tipping point for these minds. The minds that built the worlds we loved. The minds that built the foundations these companies stand on. I think gaming has always been at its best when it’s a small team of like minded individuals, building a game that they all would enjoy. Not as some unrepeatable art project or means to a quarterly revenue, but as something that’s just fun.

@justalexoki though i am surprised to hear europeans understand this

@justalexoki this is a normal experience for most americans

who amongst us haven't "teleported" to a fast food restaurant

@goblinodds definitely a primal thing lol at the kind of firepower americans fire off every july 4th

@goblinodds same reason most people love fire

why are explosions so fun to look at on like a visceral level like does something in evolution account for this

europeans and the coastal elite cannot imagine that this is an average american experience

@questionableway it gets worse when you consider that they were all also registered democrats after 2012

the last major party nominee from a current red state was george w bush

@justalexoki when i use claude i like to imagine it is sucking all the water into a giant whirlpool and sending it to a black hole

people complaining about ai water usage are genuinely so stupid. if you skip a single burger you can talk to chatgpt non stop for like a whole year

@Lixard_Persumn @TheAzureRose1 @Der_Kernel_ store.steampowered.com/app/1574240/Dr…

@Lixard_Persumn @TheAzureRose1 @Der_Kernel_ like yeah i’d but it, one of my favorite games of the last 3 years was a janky low poly morrowind like that looked and felt like a ps1 game, but most people don’t

@rowgerthat @Der_Kernel_ but yes i agree, though the answer is not lower fidelity because those games don’t do great most of the time

@rowgerthat @Der_Kernel_ ray tracing makes game development easier baked lighting is very time consuming

the average claude code user vaporizes at 1T gallons of water a day, we will never get the water back it is sucked into the black hole is it worth it?

there’s a lot of great games from large major studios in the past few years—Death Stranding, Elden Ring, Alan Wake, Baldurs Gate 3. the economics of the industry aren’t really very good, single player games are making the same inflation adjusted revenue as like 10 years ago. Studios are going after the same slice of the pie. People don’t buy many games a year. So it creates very bad incentives to make big expensive games so you are one of a persons few purchases

@_gregmeyer @Der_Kernel_ There are thousands of indie developers, many of them small teams or literally 1 guy all making amazing games nowadays.