StilesCrisis

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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
I am on the exact same page as you, but there is definitely a market for LLMs which speak more conversationally and less like Claude! Non-programming use cases abound and most users don't like the rigid, exact tone that engineering dem
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
Makes sense. When Google Jules was new, I experimented with it for a while and it was embarrassing how often it flubbed tool calls, often repeatedly. It tended to forget the working directory so almost every command needed two tries.
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
A few weeks ago two "Claude wrapper" projects showed up here within 24 hours of each other. Both seemed to just sand the details away--useful if Claude is too wordy, I suppose, but seemed to also lose real substance.
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
When I look at Claude's memory markdown it tends to list dates for significant requests already, so it can untangle this sort of thing. And if it can't it will just ask directly.
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
> Do you want to watch a video? YouTube knows you like cooking and art streams. But why not also recommend a few clips about the stock market bubble, global warming, and the war in Iran. I'm always fascinated when people claim YouTu
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
If you can make an agent reliably follow instructions, you've solved alignment completely. So I'd be particularly surprised if you can square that circle as a hobby project!
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
For sure, actually mirroring the shape of inlined code properly rather than just emitting code N times is already extra credit as far as I'm concerned. I've got enough loose ends without chasing that sort of thing!
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
I don't think that's right. I helped work on SNES9X in the early 2000s and it ran nearly everything perfectly. Sure there were smaller emulators which didn't work well, that's understandable. But gamers didn't need
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
Claude can definitely wait 50 seconds and then do a second thing. I see it all the time when running tools that never stop but iterate towards a goal. It can either run a bash `sleep 50` or use the ScheduleWakeup tool.
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
Is the date really useful? Usually I want the AI to remember rules, like "always do X before committing Y" and a timestamp doesn't change anything there.
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
Float constants are stored as data which is deduplicated on a per-TU basis. So if my TU has 1.0 and 0.0 in it, every function in that TU which uses those numbers will load from the same address. The next TU will get its own dedicated 1.0 an
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
We're not ten years early. If you can afford the tokens, and can course-correct the agent when it gets off in the weeds, AI can do 95% of the grunt work of a decomp now. Also, "widescreen OOT" is probably tweaking a pair of p
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
I don't see why the goal of a decomp needs to be "learning how to decomp"--although I guarantee you that working on one, even AI-assisted, will teach you those skills. Personally, I think it's fascinating to see how the
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
Yup. Unfortunately the project I'm working on does not have any debug info. There are not even lingering __FILE__ strings anywhere. Just picking out the TU bounds has been a chore! It's a huge benefit that things like the OS and S
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
Pretty sure the Kremlin just murders folks that they have a problem with.
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by StilesCrisis 5d ago
Working on a decomp hobby project now, and "100% matching" on an individual function can be so deceptive! These two functions could look identical in assembly: void foo() { bar(); } int foo(int x, float y) { return bar(x, y); } Th
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by StilesCrisis 6d ago
You're right. I said "the accountants didn't ALL disappear" but surely, some of them had to endure a career change. But what's the alternative?
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by StilesCrisis 6d ago
As much as it would suck to be one of the 27 unemployed, I don't think the answer is to throw away our calculators and start doing our bookkeeping by hand again. I don't think you need to feel too bad about this. The accountants d
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by StilesCrisis 6d ago
You would also need to do it sixty times a second. Games already try to do the "easy" culling of hidden geo, and you don't automatically know the screen-space bounds of the things you are drawing, like you generally would in
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by StilesCrisis 6d ago
Game development has apocryphal stories aplenty about inefficient designs--e.g. the thousand-polygon model of a screw used on every rivet for every crate, or making a ship-in-a-bottle by taking a full sized pirate ship model and scaling it
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by StilesCrisis 7d ago
You can just look at the commit stream and see for yourself. Despite community pearl-clutching, 99% of the work is just good old fashioned software engineering.
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by StilesCrisis 7d ago
Hard forking doesn't solve the problem of closed source. If the goal of a hard fork is "the community will invest equal resources that Google does today" then you wildly underestimate how many engineers work on Chrome.
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by StilesCrisis 9d ago
Americans don't use Celsius for anything except scientists talking with other scientists.
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by StilesCrisis 10d ago
Not at all! Cars are an extremely common trigger for anxiety. You are far from alone in this.
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by StilesCrisis 11d ago
Or rather, the non-failure case!
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by StilesCrisis 11d ago
Why would being overweight make your jeans rip? Only if you were buying the wrong size...
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by StilesCrisis 11d ago
That's why the industry is thriving, right? "COGS" for games has absolutely nothing to do with the plastic box on the shelf with a DVD issue. Sony wasted almost the entire PS5 generation chasing GAAS and having almost nothing
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by StilesCrisis 11d ago
I see stuff like this on YouTube all the time: https://youtube.com/shorts/eXwUySlUwgk Very obviously it's just a few Sora prompts spliced together into a video with music. There's no attempt to hide that. We
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by StilesCrisis 11d ago
Is this actually cost-effective versus hiring a few humans? Seems like a huge amount of tokens in use.
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by StilesCrisis 12d ago
Right! I don't think "Don’t contradict sentences" by itself as a rule is going to work. Give it a few examples because I wouldn't necessarily have pegged "This is hot, not cold." as a "contradicting senten

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