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I didn’t say that nor do I believe it to be true. I am just someone who had some ideas he was already working on who’s happier that I can do more now. I don’t think what I am building is special. Hell, I was already gonna do it myself pre-AI it just would’ve taken longer and I was just more careful about scope.

And at least right now the thought that somebody will be able to make in a day what’s still gonna take me months or years doesn’t make me unhappy. I just still have doubts if that’ll happen and even more doubtful that this future predicted lack of my purpose will make me unhappy.

I’m in a similar boat. I am working on some stuff or have rather expanded my scope to be truly ambitious, and it still boggles my mind what I have & can do all alone today.

I find other devs/colleagues who don’t have ideas of what to work on a bit hard to understand . Just can’t comprehend how someone won’t have any desire to do nothing else with this tech other than finishing off jira tickets.

And a few of them have expressed to me that whatever I think I enjoy today is only cause I have found “purpose” and soon both what I’m building will be easy for anyone to replicate and thus become worthless, and I won’t be happy then. I have doubts about both.

Same haha, it’s annoying to have those occasional frame hitches that are predictable but essentially unsolvable with three.js just cause GC causes them. and even the memory heap just feeling like a inscrutable black box and not even going down in size when one’s app is barely supposed to use any.

Thank you for the reply! I will be keeping an eye out.

Just to preface, I’m the developer of an nsfw bdsm game that’s getting some traction. That might not be something you’d be interested in supporting. But it is built using three.js webgl, its is VR-first but optimized enough for even iphones (memory wise to avoid crashing) with very high quality 3d models and physics. It’s also got a story/narrative/dialogue system with multiple worlds/stages. And everything is done in such a way to not spike memory usage even as different stages and parts of the story with hundreds of audio files, animations load over the web with pre-emptive caching.

It’s very hard to ensure memory usage stays low and make the right trade offs for browsers like Safari that don’t give you too much insight into it. Not to mention the limits of webgl for reducing gpu and cpu time which I’m currently also constrained by in terms of scale.

I’ve been considering migrating to babylon lite as webgpu webxr is nearly ready and already out for devices like vision pro, and it’s the only framework that in my testing actually reliably compares to threejs webgl renderer (threejs webgpu and og babylon are way behind).

But all in all having complete control over the memory seems amazing.

And regarding HMR, yeah it does require careful setup with r3f/react and obv has edge cases. But as my game’s story has increased to be hours long, it is quite handy to able to not wait for majority of changes as reloads which themselves can take a few seconds etc.

If you’re interested in chatting more, I can share the project with you if give me an email or another private avenue.

I’d love to try this out. But the SDK can’t be used unless one first signs up to Jai beta?

Had few other questions:

- Is the dev environment still web first or is that a secondary target?

- One of the best things about three.hs is the extremely fast feedback look with HMR where if setup properly you can code see changes reflected in your running app without a refresh or losing state within a second. Is something like that feasible here?

- How complete is the PBR support? - Lightprobes or lightprobe grid supported? I know that’s just mostly material/shader related code so shouldn’t be impossible to add based on a project’s requirements.

- I didn’t see support for skeleton meshes in the examples either, is that possible?

- Also, how feasible is WebXR support?

for 1 person making a product, there has never been a better time to make a saas product that can make a living.

but the saas unicorns, or 100 person, 10 person saas company are def. under threat.

reverse/compliment to this to start working for me is just aiming to work for 1-2 minutes when it feels hard to get started. i usually end up getting immersed, and find it hard to stop.

That’s good. But you shouldn’t mistake a “cursory” understanding where you can talk the talk to be equivalent to actual in-depth knowledge of the problem/solution.

There are depths of understanding that can only be gained by executing and mutating the code and understanding its behavior deeply. Not that it even matters in the end. But feeling like we understand something and actually understanding it fully are 2 different things that we should just remain aware of.

I’m on the biggest max plan. It is riddled with annoying bugs for me, only been using it for a little over a month. Settings screen flashes randomly. But most annoyingly: sometimes when forking chats or sometimes for no reason, the UI just straight up eats my previous messages. The model is still aware of them and can recount them if I ask but the visible history is gone. And that’s not even all of them. Fable 5 is just too good that I put up with it but it seriously raises concerns for me that even with infinite compute these companies can’t even deliver a functional chat UI.

wow, that was the golden age of Google.

That was very nice to read. Refreshing to see a deep take that’s optimistic.

I had a similar experience. For complex maths in my 3d engine around IK, made more progress in those 3 days than I would’ve done in weeks.

I recently discovered though that ChatGPT 5.5 Pro is almost as smart but only available to me via the ChatGPT app. I’ve been having it read my code and having Opus 4.8 use the ChatGPT app to collaborate. It’s a step down but its a temporary stopgap for complex problems.

Agreed. I really don’t think this is worth arguing that AI can be a huge help. I was skeptical until April even after hearing many friends tell me how good Opus 4.5 was last year.

Not working on the “next big” thing but I only recently started finding that AI could solve complex problems for me starting around ChatGPT 5.5. Working on a game engine. Some of the quite isolated modules I’ve had it build are not good code by my own standards. The code has way too many indirections to say the least. But they work without bugs and perform well too (i have a very good CPU and memory management harness for my frame loop). My velocity on the project has doubled at least cause now stuff that I wanted to do down the line is already done. I’m definitely a bit careful with setting up isolated guardlines about which files I let a certain feature touch but with models like Fable even found that unnecessary.

Working code that performs exactly how I want on an outer level is valuable. It can be refactored and rearchitected or reimplemented better by just the virtue of having something to compare against and having the edge cases accounted for.

Woah, thank you! Just checking these will keep on working on the lock screen and as screen savers too?