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by tyleo 5mo ago
So an indie dev just trying to make a multiplayer game with no budget and no graceful shutdown plan may be acting irresponsibly? Is the world really better if those people face additional burden? Does it create a fairer system that helps in
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by tyleo 5mo ago
The subject matter is interesting but the blog post is obviously written by AI or at least heavily edited :( And the Hacker News title should be changed to the slop title in the article, "It's Not The Terminator. It's worse&q
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I generally don’t fill my context with enough stuff that this becomes a problem. I don’t think more data = better on the token side. Instead I’d be researching with focused prompts or subagents and surfacing only relevant context to a prima
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Yeah, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Over hundreds of hours of Claude Code use, I’ve never had this problem. I feel like people just jam poorly specified input into LLMs and hope for the best. Then pile more tools on top when they do
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I’m not sure what you mean. Photon makes money running game servers as a service. It wouldn’t surprise me if their business wasn’t viable selling software alone.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I’m not sure what you mean. If you shut down a game and a law demands extra work to stand up a F2P server, who pays for that work? That’s the “shutdown bill” I’m talking about.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Yeah, we published some protobuf schemas on GitHub so players can decode some of our binary protocols more easily.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
The answer is, "not trivial but easy enough that smart players can probably do it." To each their own on what they want. We obviously can't give everyone everything. Players don't want the game to go away at all. We stil
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by tyleo 5mo ago
That sounds like a bad incentive. Lots of games license software like Photon to run game servers. For many games, building something like that is a non-starter.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I doubt it. I don't think another law _reduces_ legal issues. If anything it makes the situation more complicated. The plug is still getting pulled and I don't think this materially changes the outcome. If the company shuts down I
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Subsidiary is what I was thinking too. Imagine you were just some indie dev freelancing and all of a sudden you have a big shutdown bill.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Tbh I think engineers gladly would. I think most folks want the content out. It’s the legal obligations that always get in the way.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Dedicated but our multiplayer is a P2P-like API because our original game server provider was Photon.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
As I understand it, the obstacles are mostly legal. Our development team would love to just throw the code on GitHub.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
We looked into it. Hackers got part of the way there so we decided not to make a change. They might be able to do it after the title is fully sunset and the team disbanded. We basically have to get as much done on a 3/4 month timeline
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I happen to be shutting down an online game right now. https://www.tyleo.com/blog/sunsetting-rec-room-how-to-give-a... The sad truth is that these things have high operating costs, especially if they need moderation. I
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I feel like it depends on the leader. I've definitely seen leaders value LoC beyond reason and cause worse, bloated codebases by rewarding cowboys with 10k line PRs. Big companies have thousands of leaders. Many good, many bad.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
This is foolish. High token use is associated with worse output. If you fill your models context you are going to be using a lot more context but the labs literally put out charts of how the models degrade at high context use. This is analo
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Yeah, I also agree that A is good in many cases.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I was thinking about this recently. I tend to run my AI at low context because the documentation states that they degrade with higher context usage. However I see tons of people on LinkedIn with ways of backing up context, not wanting to lo
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Agree that it would be nice to fix in the language. It seems like something that even a transpiler could take care of. Ultimately I think I’d bias towards readability vs the marginal perf increase though.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
In the last couple of years I’ve started using named parameters a bunch more across languages. I consider objects like this close to the JS version of a named parameter. I probably would have thrown “name” in myself so it’s one arg for the
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by tyleo 5mo ago
To what end?
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Interesting, I think I hit most of these except sundecks, images, and online features. I really just wanted text markdown flash cards though. Pretty simple requirements on my end.
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I hit principal pretty early on in my career. I keep a detailed work history for anyone interested in what that journey is like: https://www.tyleo.com/professional-work-history It's both hustle and luck. One reason I l
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Interesting. I needed to study for job interviews recently and I had Claude Code 1-shot a flashcard CLI and then iterated on the flash card design in markdown. Is there anything in particular that stands out about Space vs 1-shotting a flas
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by tyleo 5mo ago
I like the framing, "Fuzzy In, Fuzzy Out," in particular. It captures an idea that's often said with many more words. It's also interesting to think of how it scales. Up to a limit, the more context you provide in the in
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by tyleo 5mo ago
There are political cartoons of kings, politicians, presidents, going back ages. I agree it’s low brow but it isn’t like some line has been crossed. It’s good to chuckle every once in awhile and I hope even Marc Andreessen gets a laugh when
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by tyleo 5mo ago
Came here to say this. It’s a recent episode too. Worth listening too if your interested in business history or strategy.
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Sunsetting Rec Room: How to Give a Beloved Product the Ending It Deserves(tyleo.com)
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