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> - What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music? Starcraft and Factorio are exactly what it is
by Macha 9mo ago
> - What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music?
Starcraft and Factorio are exactly what it is not. Starcraft has a loooot of micro involved at any level beyond mid level play, despite all the "pro macros and beats gold league with mass queens" meme videos. I guess it could be like Factorio if you're playing it by plugging together blueprint books from other people but I don't think that's how most people play.
At that level of abstraction, it's more like grand strategy if you're to compare it to any video game? You're controlling high level pushes and then the units "do stuff" and then you react to the results.
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- zetazzed 9mo agoIt's like the Victoria 3 combat system. You just send an army and a general to a given front and let them get to work with no micro. Easy! But of course some percentage of the time they do something crazy like deciding to redeploy from your existential Franco-Prussian war front to a minor colonial uprising...
- kridsdale3 9mo agoI think the StarCraft analogy is fine, you have to compare it not to macro and micro RTS play, but to INDIVIDUAL UNITS. For your whole career until now, you have been a single Zergling or Probe. Now you are the Commander.
- TheRoque 9mo agoExcept that pro starcraft player still micro-manage every single Zergling or probe when necessary, while vibe coders just right click on the ennemy base and hope it'll go well