mastodon 4.7.2Infrastructure and functional programming geek. Simracing enthusiast. Gamedev hack. Senior Developer at a Fruit Company
Almost finished with game logic for #voxxon, my vibe-coded voxel re-imagining of the arcade classic Zaxxon. Just need the energy barriers, then the rest is polish and tuning. Not bad for 3 weeks of ~2 hour nights. Definitely less than 40 hours into this.
Once it's ready, i'll host the game on my site and open up the github repo. This has always been more of a test of whether #claude code is up to the #gamedev tasks I have for it than anything else.
This the exact problem I am up against as well. Not only is #Claude better than a junior engineer in many cases, but even worse, a
Junior engineer with Claude will never become a real senior engineer
The flag that best captured my feelings at the #NoKings rally today was the “Fuck Trump and Fuck You for voting for him”. It was done in the style of those blue Trump flags. Surprisingly I can’t find that version anywhere to purchase
I'm through all the quests in #ArcRaiders and not being a PvP guy have gotten bored of just going ARC hunting without a mission. So i started hunting for a new game and almost bought #ForeverSkies
Stopped myself just in time with the thought "wait, why are trying to seek out a new time suck? You already don't have time for all your hobbies."
Trying to pour that time into more #gamedev which has been getting too few cycles. Let's hope I can maintain discipline.
Was reviewing the #claude .md for a large python project at work today. Had a big section on all sorts of rule and type enforcement. Just made me want to scream:
"For fucks sake, just use a strongly typed, compiled language already! Your're going to boil the oceans trying make an LLM do what a compiler does while asleep" #smh
Got tired of assembling walls a block at a time, so i #claude coded a wall builder. This one was a bit more challenging, but to be fair I had to go back to #magicavoxel and re-work all the possible pieces to fully understand it myself. I then wrote the rules down as a markdown file and #claude picked it up pretty nicely from there. #gamedev #threejs
Wow. I forgot how much i love the Violent Femmes
OpenAI and its ilk are in the loss leader phase of their business model. But unlike Uber, once they have to raise their prices to market rate, on-device models are going to be “close enough” and orders of magnitude cheaper
For one-off maintenance scripts, #claude code is an amazing time saver. I certainly won't let it execute them or even execute them myself without review, for this type of script, I don't mind being the Human in the loop and it still saves a lot of time and headaches. YMMV
I think Intellectual Property had its chance to prove worthwhile but I’m more and more considering it a failed experiment. The supposed protections for the creator to spur innovation in reality is just a tool for corporations to crush innovators.
@jeremydmiller@hachyderm.io Been seeing Wolverine updates in my feed for a long time, but not having been active in .NET for a while it's been on the edge of my perception.
Then today, as I was looking at moving my hobby game project from godot to webgl w/ server based simulation, I ended up asking Claude for CQRS framework, Wolverine came in as the best fit.
Since I've seen you complain about people trying to do things with Wolverine that they really shouldn't, I figured I'd give you a ping :)
One thing I've noticed with #claude_code is that vibing is no substitute for knowing how the code should be structured. Left to its own devices #claude may produce the output you asked for, but chances are its done in such a way that asking it later to understand and modify its own code will drop it into a token consuming spiral
Going to compare Qwen-Coder to #claude code. Would like to move inference local. Got a 2080 sitting idle while I code and if that is useful, the whole unified memory arch of the M-Series chips makes Metal rather attractive over trying to plunk down the cash for a 32GB GPU for local inference.
What keeps me hooked on #arcRaiders is that virtually every night creates a story of its own. I’m a PvE player and 90% of the time that lands me in PvE lobbies but the risk of rats is always there.
Last night I’m at Plaza Rosa taking pop shots at a Bombardier with my Hullcracker when I hear “Turn around” from behind. I do and take a shotgun to the face. Last thing I see is a pair standing over me as they knock me out.
I’m not even mad. It was one of the more entertaining ways I’ve died
I know I have a problem. I’m out in Bird Rock enjoying some fantastic wines. But I keep thinking about dispatching into Spaceport, jamming on my guitar and taking on ARC
Working with legacy systems be like
Can't believe I watched the whole 5 hours of the Jeff Kaplan interview and now i'm 4 hours into his #TheLegendOfCalifornia stream. And I don't even care about WoW or Westerns.
Now all I can think of is that I want a persistent world, base building version of #ARCRaiders . It not existing is probably a healthy thing for me.
A while back I rented a track prepped 2016 MX-5 and it was the most fun I'd had in a while. Hadn't driven anything as light since my 69 911.
I love my 981, but at 2900 lbs it's not what you would call tossable. That sent me down a rabbit hole. I want a ~2200 lb car and being a Porschephile, that puts me in an awkward position. 356s and longhood 911s are in unobtainium territory these days. 1/2
This matches my experience @vaurora@mstdn.social
We get Ospreys flying close to our house frequently and I swear Embark sampled them for the Rocketeer. Anyway I get triggered on a regular basis #arcRaiders
Important vibe coding skill: Know when to say "fuck it, i'll do it myself". When you get into a loop failing at something really simple, there's no point wasting time and tokens, just do it yourself. #claude should do tedious things faster not make you waste time on simple things.
The trick is to compartmentalize that habit, because doing that with a person makes you a shitty mentor. Claude isn't a junior engineer who you should keep iterating until they get it right so they learn.
Need to record a demo of the current state of Voxxon. Only reason I haven't is that now I have sound, I once again realize that for whatever asinine reason Mac does not record system audio when capturing the screen. So now I'm setting up OBS on my Windows dev machine and trying to figure out capturing just a section of it #gamedev #drudgery
Santa Ana winds were crazy on our property today. As I was walking the trails I kept hearing noises that made me think there was a rocketeer bearing down on me. I guess I’ve been playing too much #ArcRaiders