keithnz

maybe you don't recognize you've been downvoted a lot? my comment above has a LOT of upvotes, and it's your comment that is out of place and you should have thought about it a lot more. You did not nudge in a better direction. Total failure to realize how things like star trek have had a lot of influence on people in tech and that maybe its you that should behave better in the future. Your better course of action would have been to say nothing, no comment was necessary from you.

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none of that makes it less usable. That side bar where its shown is mostly just to see who is online and I found for many users, they don't even have that bar showing. The core chat/voice/streaming is just as functional as ever.

yep, many previous discussions on discord tend to result in many HNers poo pooing discord. All the things they say would happen never happened.

I really like discord. This seems like a good move, there is plenty of information locked inside discord at the moment. For instance I'm part of the Wooting keyboard discord and there's a lot info there on problem solving, customizing, etc. There are tons of other discords like this, especially for games. I personally have a dota2 guild discord, but none of these are likely to be searchable as mostly they are private (often with public invite links somewhere) and don't have many users (I think mines at 180ish).

yeah, it's still pretty good for a lot of things. I've found with AI it's now super easy to do native win32 apps really easily. It used to be doing all the plumbing was a PITA. There were wrappers to make it easier, but now you can do it directly. It means you get super performant, tiny binaries, that start instantly. Like windows should be. However, at home I've moved to linux a while back so way less useful to me now, though works fine with WINE. I still use it to make little utilities for work though.

the guidance / guardrails, agent roles, etc are the critical thing now, it's kind of like meta programming AI to get the outcomes you want. Any problems need addressing at this level. You don't need to understand all the code, but you should understand how the system is building up and adjust as needed. This would be an architectural review process you go through with AI. Features to code that should plug into existing architectural structures are generally no problem. It's just boilerplate code AI is generating. But architecture is only one aspect, you should have lots of guidance for all kinds of thing. There's security, performance, correctness, QA, Ux, Deployment, Process, Monitoring etc and having feedback systems for everything. You keep refining and reviewing your guidance and the impact it is having. As well as this you are molding the product for the things you want via feature development. What I'm not sure of is if you are some cog somewhere in a company like Meta whether whatever slice you become responsible for becomes a bit meh if you are mostly just prompting a feature and not much more. As a developer in a smaller company (we are global with a smallish tech team) I get to do a lot of things from interacting with our customers through to the entire backend and get to make critical decisions about nearly everything. Nearly everything in the company is starting to be driven via guidance and feedback loops (including on the guidance itself).

yes, but it's a hobby now. If you enjoy historical re-enactment of old software development practices, feel free!

I think a lot of these reactions by mathematicians are more akin to group theory than anything else. Reality is that things will naturally sort themselves out and there will be some role mathematicians play in all of it (most likely). To me it seems the timeline that some skill essentially gets retired such that if you want to keep doing it is more like "historical re-enactment" is getting quite short. Things like manually coding something is going to be a hobby. Some aspects of math are going to be a hobby, and professional math will be all about pushing up against the edge of what we can do mathematically with AI.

I run regular reviews with my AI, it's added quite a lot of rules to stop this happening. Though I have this all on linux, but still.

not in my experience, might cost more in the initial setup possibly (well within my plans limits anyways), then after that modifying and building the game is really incremental the AI game engine seems way more adaptable a fit for purpose. Costly thing with games (in terms of tokens) is generally dealing with images.

my guess would be virtually all games are going to made with AI assitance. People are going to have to get over their AI phobia and just judge the quality of the result, there's awful things and good things.

Interestingly, a number of my non coder gamer friends are having a lot of fun lately making their own games using AI.

why's it even needed? AI seems really good at doing it without any supporting libraries / frameworks.