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When my all in stake is about, oh, say $5k - how can you afford not to try? Making it good is tough, I've been at this for nearly half of a year and I'm only now hitting my stride ( a level per week )

Especially if it's just gratifying to say you released something you're proud of. I have no illusion AAA titles with big budgets/advertising budgets and higher polish will give it a slim chance but,

Its better than a lotto ticket I'd wager.

I've been building an FPS since I realized Opus 4.8 claude had some essence of taste and modeling capability. I have 0 experience in game development. Along the way I learned how hard video game development really is and have a new respect for indie studios. AI will never replace original story telling and artwork - having a firm foundation and building the first models and level myself was key.

Since then, each model advancement has made it easier and easier to delegate and form workflows around each aspect of making my game - to the point that I login once and awhile to sculpt, get visual feedback for textures lighting and level design... I get a level done a week - test it myself, and ship it to beta testers who auto update and can send me anonymous feedback - all thanks to Opus.

I'm one dude - and I think this is a crippling vision to some of what's to come. AAA studios certainly know and will serve you AI generated games instead of paying talented people. I hope those talented people getting displaced can get enabled cause what I've done is pretty amazing.

Maybe this is what and how it always should have been. My life is better now that an LLM proxies my human sound waves and finger clacks to bits that do what I say - and precisely what I say nothing else

Have you considered converting this to an actual test suite in $language with AI doing the majority.

Isn’t testing an API just more test cases that Claude toils through? Why do I care about milkman Bruno or postman.

I really don’t know what to tell people other than, you’re missing the point - it’s not a faster horse.

Anyone agreeing with this headline - I’m sorry in advance for your loss.

Hi all. Reading these every day now. Is public cloud safe anymore or the internet in general? Or are we just choosing to live in a reality where their mondo security budgets head off these exploits - and yeah, naw - coming clean is still more expensive than burying incidents?

Edit: “Or the internet in general” - and yes internet was never safe but this is just next level. You seem to do everything right and it doesn’t matter. Is o365 really safe for example? I’m rapidly seeing my faith in SaaS platforms degrade - they can’t be immune to all Of this

I think capital will always be looking for better returns, and as long as human beings can add marginal value somewhere in that equation, there will be demand for human labor.

Working in tech has taught me to stay vigilant. I've seen the cycles and seen people survive each one. Perhaps that's why I feel better prepared for this. Anyone whose job primarily consists of manipulating bits should probably assume that significant parts of it are going to be automated.

Where I disagree is the assumption that we're approaching some kind of escape velocity where automation eliminates useful human labor faster than people can adapt. People need to eat, firms want to make money, and both create enormous pressure to find the next place where human effort has value.

That doesn't mean the transition will be painless, or that everyone displaced will successfully pivot. But there's a very large leap between "AI destroys a lot of existing jobs" and "human labor no longer has economic value." I don't think we've demonstrated the latter.

If you patronize all these garbage movie studios and multimedia companies by all means - taste disappears.

But if you've used meshy, sora and enough coding models you see the mediocrity is laughable - nobody will consume it.

Any media that is worth watching still has a human with plenty of irreplaceable talent.

No job is forever. Tomorrow isn’t promised, and automation already did this—albeit more slowly—throughout the second half of the 20th century. Some people watched their jobs disappear and accepted that they’d become obsolete. Plenty of others pivoted.

The counterargument today is that we can pivot much faster. I’m typing this on a $2,000 Mac that can run Blender, render scenes, write code, edit video, and access tools that would have required a studio or a room full of specialized hardware not that long ago.

GenAI is empowering people to do things they simply could not do before. It’s here. The interesting question is: what are you going to do with it?

I think movie production may be approaching its YouTube moment. If the barriers to making something collapse, then make something worth watching. I’d rather see a small team with an actual idea than another $300 million spider man multiverse hot garbage sequel or guardians of the slop 600 assembled by committee, approved by a board after a slide deck, and polished into expensive slop.

Claude is fire with blender mcp https://youtu.be/pwEfsp8aq9I?is=ULNxiSdI48puE_S3

Fun. I see the novelty.

I’ve never been busier and more challenged than I am now.

As a father of 4 children who’s married, I haven’t had time in years to pursue any of my software hobbies. The nights playing with arch Linux, fussing with half built oss projects - I can’t justify the time anymore but I still Enjoy them. The cloud and Kubernetes came along, I told my wife this was something I had to learn and throw myself at. Despite spending tons of family time instead in my lab in my basement and trying to push those techs at work - I got my butt handed to me - felt like a young man’s game for every interview I went to.

At home, this has changed. Claude helped me setup a satellite dish, tune it, recompiled goesrec, for me and built a website to serve it - and my family dynamic was only “slightly interrupted” (daddy are you working still?). But it worked! And now I log in and tend to my projects with terminus instead of blindly go through the news or social media. Amazing! I’m still throwing myself at a new tech but way less invasve to my personal/family time.

At work though, i have been made into an absolute powerhouse. I invested the time years ago fussing with those oss projects and arch Linux or setting up lan parties and fixing my buddies rigs - toiling through terrible codebases at companies, deploying bad infrastructure, owning it and learning the hard way how to succeed - and it all is paying off and now 10x. AI can’t replace my judgement in the context of my org - maybe in time as the org shifts, but not for a few years.

The existential threat is not to me, at least for 5y - it’s when I’m asked - how do we get more features out the door?

* More headcount? Not unless they’re rockstars - more tokens.

* offshore talent? No, context switching and TZ - just more tokens.

* fly by night software startup xyz? No I’ll just write my own fault injection framework for $5 tailored to this project.

* consultants? Nope - pretty easy to try and fail fast and rewrite - again building to suite - software is disposable.

* oh no it was written in language xyz or deployed to cloud provider abc - no sweat, we’ll make it work on our cloud provider for $8.

Junior devs and offshore talent are the real losers here - I worry about them. Unless you’re die hard, I’d just assume do the work myself. But how do you accumulate this level of skill without getting paid to do it? I look back - I never got beyond baby projects or hobbies at home. I had to have someone roll the dice on me at a real job cause - rent and shit like that.

For those of you just starting out - I don’t have a great answer for you on how to start out, but - I can say you can install arch Linux, any oss project you want and all the things I did to get started in an afternoon - this is the new normal and embrace it.

For the rest of us it is our cloud moment - use the free tier - get your feet wet - we’re about to go for a hell of a ride. If you stick to the “took ur derbs” and want to keep treating your craft like artisian soap - go ahead, we’ll need those but don’t expect to survive on that

Ah I see now.

That being said - much hate detected

I don’t understand the elitism about avoiding LLMs.

Good luck -

“In English, Data”

They make some engineers 10x more productive and some engineers 10x less productive. LLMs give you all the rope you want to hang yourself.

Some engs I work with have their strengths, but using an LLM just totally ruins them. I watched one miss a deadline by a month - letting Claude take them down OOM rabbit holes for a simple python ETL script.

When I did finally stop and try to help what I saw was incredible. Claude churned out all of this OOM/garbage collection with prediction nonsense - totally gaslighting this engineer. They didn’t even stop to question and have the thought Python did its own GC - why are they writing code to do it? Whats wrong with my logic? Claude certainly didn’t bring it up…

This individual would have performed better without an LLM - just writing from scratch on their own being forced to think step by step and understand the implementation and the tools they were using. This has been great for Years for this eng.

Flip side is I’ve seen good engineers do incredible things. I’m worried this widens the skill gap.

I hope these individuals, like The Eng I mentioned with the script, can figure out a productive way to leverage LLMs. It’s definitely a new skill to use agentic coding tools.