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Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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Re: Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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Post by stalfie »

dakolli wrote: post #19
LatencyKills wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This technology exists. It isn’t just a toy. I think it is amazing to see people use it for interesting things even if it isn’t groundbreaking. I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do. Like it or not, young people will not know a world where this technology doesn’t exist. It is just part of their toolset now.

I'm pretty young and hate this technology with a passion. I didn't spend 100k on education, and studying for a decade to have my job reduced to being a project manager for a bot or to play with a prompt slot machine all day. This crap is reducing the thing I genuinely love doing more than anything, writing code, into nothing.. Reviewing code that lacks any sweat, any intention. I really can't stand this garbage. I ca…

So to summarize, your objections are almost completely unrelated to the technology, and are mostly about capitalism.

Re: Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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Post by paganel »

LatencyKills wrote: post #18
dakolli wrote: post #14

Yay, I love how we just keep coming up with magic tricks, like toddlers playing with velcro.. These magic tricks do nothing but convince people who don't know any better that LLMs are the real deal, when they simply aren't. This is just free propaganda for Anthropic && OpenAI who will leverage these (useless) capabilities to convince your boss to give your salary to them, or at least a substantial portion of it.

This technology exists. It isn’t just a toy. I think it is amazing to see people use it for interesting things even if it isn’t groundbreaking. I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do. Like it or not, young people will not know a world where this technology doesn’t exist. It is just part of their toolset now.

> I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do.

You would say that because otherwise you'd be afraid as being seen as "too old for this job", and hence risking getting kicked out of it all, meaning no future employment opportunities. I know that feeling, because I myself have been doing this programming job for 20+ years already (so not a young one by any means), but let's just cut the crap about it all and let's tell it how it is.

Re: Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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Post by arscan »

Reminds me of the “Google AI Challenge” in 2011 called Ants [1], except the ‘AI’ is implemented using ‘AI’ now instead of human programmers.

I was proud for getting the highest-ranked JavaScript-based implementation, but got absolutely crushed by the eventual winner.

1. https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge

Re: Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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Post by mitchm »

I’ve also been exploring this idea. What if you could bring your own (or pull in a 3rd party) “CPU player” into a game?

Using an LLM friendly api with a snapshot of game state and calculated heuristics, legal moves, and varying levels of strategy in working out nicely. They can play a web based game via curl.

Re: Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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Post by LatencyKills »

paganel wrote: post #22
LatencyKills wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This technology exists. It isn’t just a toy. I think it is amazing to see people use it for interesting things even if it isn’t groundbreaking. I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do. Like it or not, young people will not know a world where this technology doesn’t exist. It is just part of their toolset now.

> I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do. You would say that because otherwise you'd be afraid as being seen as "too old for this job", and hence risking getting kicked out of it all, meaning no future employment opportunities. I know that feeling, because I myself have been doing this programming job for 20+ years already (so not a young one by any means), but let's just cu…

> You would say that because otherwise you'd be afraid as being seen as "too old for this job"

Um... I am still an active reverse engineer of both ring-0 and ring0 applications on both macOS and Windows (I worked on both the VS and Xcode teams). I'm developing a new tool for macOS that allows users to "see behind" active windows without the constant need for cmd/alt+tabbing. My age has zero bearing on my skill set or ability to understand technology. https://imgur.com/a/seymour-r9whXO5

> let's just cut the crap about it all and let's tell it how it is

The reality is, as I said, that this technology exists and it isn't going anywhere. Young people are going to use it as a tool just like we did when GUI operating systems first became prevalent.

I don't even remotely buy into the AI hype but I'm not going put the blinders on either. There is utility in this technology.

Re: Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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Post by LatencyKills »

dakolli wrote: post #19
LatencyKills wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This technology exists. It isn’t just a toy. I think it is amazing to see people use it for interesting things even if it isn’t groundbreaking. I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do. Like it or not, young people will not know a world where this technology doesn’t exist. It is just part of their toolset now.

I'm pretty young and hate this technology with a passion. I didn't spend 100k on education, and studying for a decade to have my job reduced to being a project manager for a bot or to play with a prompt slot machine all day. This crap is reducing the thing I genuinely love doing more than anything, writing code, into nothing.. Reviewing code that lacks any sweat, any intention. I really can't stand this garbage. I ca…

The world is changing and instead of embracing that change (ensuring that you will be the next leader) you are actively fighting against technology?

The world was once entirely analog; generations of analog engineers had to throw away their knowledge and start over during the digital transition. It wasn't always pretty but they did it.

If you can't embrace technological change you might have wasted $100k.

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