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by raincole 3mo ago
"Sometimes I feel like I'm an athlete who trained all day for years, then before my first professional match, I retired and went off to teach PE."
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by raincole 3mo ago
It might be true in some very special cases, but if a programmer can't make games like Crab Champions (the example used in the grandparent comment) performant with Unity/UE, they should be nowhere near to a custom engine.
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by raincole 3mo ago
Yeah, when people who are not familiar with AI and use Cursor with Sonnet 3.7 they are only 19% slower. In retrospect that research was very bullish for AI.
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by raincole 3mo ago
> I can spot a unity or unreal game from miles away. They have a smell if you will that is very hard to escape. Confirmation bias. Are you saying Hollow Knight, Cities: Skylines and Escape from Tarkov have the same kind of "smell&q
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by raincole 3mo ago
I still have a gripe over the fact The Book of Shaders which never gets finished [0]. Perhaps I'll write such a book... after I finish my game (dry laughter). [0]: https://thebookofshaders.com/
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by raincole 3mo ago
> This is why most indy games now are 2D. That's do-able. Often in HTML/JavaScript. Most indie games are definitely not in HTML/JavaScript unless you count vibe coded ones.
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by raincole 3mo ago
> The amount of otherwise decent games that run poorly due to Unity or UE is very unfortunate The amount is approximately zero. If someone write badly optimized code with Unity they have 200% chance to write badly optimized code with the
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by raincole 3mo ago
Personally, I define fairness as being able to use a piece of code however the license permitted. "Kindness" might be a better word.
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by raincole 3mo ago
> But because they were pushed by the government, many people do not trust them. Sure, they were pushed and mandated for good reasons, but the problem is that a lot of people have already lost trust in the government. In the case of COVI
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by raincole 3mo ago
It's really fast. But fast in a way that reminds me this joke: > Does this pill make me smater? > No, but it can make you dumb faster!
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by raincole 3mo ago
Censorship on image generation models works on another level. The models can generate NSFW, but there are extra computer vision models checking if the images can be shown to the users. It's especially obvious for Grok and ChatGPT.
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by raincole 4mo ago
It won't make much difference. The US has a lot of problem, but "not spending enough money" isn't one. The US government spend a lot on healthcare ($5.3 in 2024)[0]. More than most European countries per capita. But many
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by raincole 4mo ago
> governments Plural implies they count more than the federal government.
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by raincole 4mo ago
> adjusting those 1960-1980 prices for inflation would make the graph a lot taller. It won't though. One dollar in 1960 is just about ten dollars today. The graph is already in logarithmic scale so it won't make much difference
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by raincole 4mo ago
Where is the weird part?
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by raincole 4mo ago
Yes, and the article author is fully aware of that. Thank you for pointing out this small mistake though.
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by raincole 4mo ago
> I am developing my own app 2+ years manually, and not use "AI" at all. How does this mean this isn't an age of AI? Because you're The Representative of Programmers? > so many not-real-programmers Oh sorry I misse
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by raincole 4mo ago
People should've googled their symptoms and especially the prescriptions they got. It has always been a good practice. If[0] AI proves to be the new google then people should ask AI too. [0]: IF.
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by raincole 4mo ago
> I can train insainly powerful models on my laptop. What's with this hallucination? The thread is about GPT-5.6 . Your laptop can't even run gemma 4 unquantized bfloat16, which is light years behind GPT-5.6, and running it is
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by raincole 4mo ago
> To give an example, just doing Typescript type fixes with this model across 50 files cost me $54 this afternoon. 1. How much it costs in terms of programmers' salaries? 2. Can DeepSeek do this (I bet it can) and how much it costs?
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by raincole 4mo ago
> Can our sci-fi writers come up with something equivalent that is as dizzyingly far from what we know now, as now is from what Aristocreon knew? By definition we can't, since your premise is that: > future humans with machines m
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by raincole 4mo ago
By your logic, humans shouldn't write new children's books either, because there is already enough high-quality content already.
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by raincole 4mo ago
In case you're not aware, 100,000 whys is a well-established name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Thousand_Whys
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by raincole 4mo ago
It means his opinions about xAI are worth less than a random HNer's, since he has a very strong incentive to talk bad about it.
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by raincole 4mo ago
FYI, one of the most well-known books about writing game entity behavior is literally called "Programming Game AI by Example." (published in 2004) https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Example-Wordware-Develope...
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by raincole 4mo ago
As a game dev, the fact "AI" as a keyword became totally unusable is quite annoying.
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by raincole 4mo ago
> OpenAI Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion This is going to be the new most misquoted/misunderstood data of
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by raincole 4mo ago
Your comment has more insight than this whole article (which is, well, not a very high bar).
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by raincole 4mo ago
> I'm not sure I understand this argument. I create new tools all the time as part of my development work, and I have skills stored that tell agents how to use them. They use them flawlessly. I highly doubt that your tool is like th
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by raincole 4mo ago
It's a very weird comment as people who actually use crypto (not flipping or holding) are those who without other viable choices. They're not replacing something. Those transactions would simply not happen without crypto. Notice t

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