The people using these sheets have no idea what you’re talking about. They use multiple sheets to layer the dimensions and understand pivot tables perfectly.
Are people who understand relational databases and people who understand pivot tables disjoint sets? I can look at someone’s finished pivot table and reproduce it from the data through other means, but any explanation of what a pivot table actually is and does reads like pure gibberish to me.
Probably. A pivot table is basically a way to turn on one of the dimensions of the sheet to make sense of the data. Like "show me all invoices, grouped by date and sum each group". It is effectively a query, in a way that makes sense for people working in spreadsheets.
Kind of concerning what a non- programmer can do with vibe coding... On the other hand, it's somewhat reassuring that the game is clearly missing scroll inertia/momentum. I guess he didn't yet get the language model to do it for him.
The author is not just a regular vibecoder. He’s a very talented artist. Most people will be creating unengaging, boring and tasteless apps and games with AI.
It is absolutely wild seeing people who do not know how to code building and shipping computer games. This kind of language is fascinating/terrifying: > I assume doing all this computationally is more processor-intensive than using pre-rendered monsters, but it’s very smooth for me on both desktop and phone, so it must not be too intensive. I guess I’ll hear from people if it’s choppy on their device. I think the nat…
>Feels like the painful transition when professional photographers started having to differentiate themselves from whatever people could do with their own phone.
Hmm, do we have statistics about that? Like, did the profession collapsed?
I wouldn't equal the photo I do (not much) with anything close to a pro. Not even to a good amateur level actually. But that's just me. :D
The "nature of the profession" might already be quite diverse, but that's an interesting remark.
I found a way to cheat. The fire which is meant to force you doom scroll actually disappears if you scroll down then back up. This means that you can just chill out in the “easy area” and get your powerups and kills. Scrolling down (doomscrolling) is not mandatory.
I found a way to cheat. The fire which is meant to force you doom scroll actually disappears if you scroll down then back up. This means that you can just chill out in the “easy area” and get your powerups and kills. Scrolling down (doomscrolling) is not mandatory.
Yeah, a relentlessly advancing deadly wall of fire becomes much less scary without the "relentless" part...
Another way of decreasing the difficulty is to enlarge the "playfield". I actually did that by chance, because my browser window is usually only half of my 4K monitor, so it's taller than wide. Because the monsters always start off at the bottom, you have much more time to shoot them.
It is absolutely wild seeing people who do not know how to code building and shipping computer games. This kind of language is fascinating/terrifying: > I assume doing all this computationally is more processor-intensive than using pre-rendered monsters, but it’s very smooth for me on both desktop and phone, so it must not be too intensive. I guess I’ll hear from people if it’s choppy on their device. I think the nat…
We already had to beat "I made a spreadsheet", which continues to be pretty damn hard even for large teams of experienced engineers - ask your finance team sometime how many custom spreadsheets they use regularly. A) Lots of useful apps aren't a great fit for a spreadsheet. AI seems to be opening many of those up the same way. B) Lots of spreadsheets have bugs which cause then to give wildly inaccurate results, which…
The problem is management and short-term stock-holder interest. If some spreadsheet cowboy convinces some C-level suit that this is the way to go, and it works now, not in 6 months time, IT and development will be made to bear the brunt. Same with AI. The most ardent supporters of its use seem to be the higher-ups, $$$ in their eyes. Convinced of their superior decision skills, they can wreck the place, or in their view, rightsize the help desk/IT/dev departments. Then they get a bonus for delivering cost reductions, and move to another job before being held accountable.
I used ai to make a simple game for a hackathon: you are an ai gathering training data its a bit like warioware with an extremly annoying soundtrack https://vibeware.vercel.app/ came 2nd! thanks claude
Am I the only one who finds in bad taste to use "Epstein victims demand release ..." in the game? Is rape and pedophilia already normalized and I didn't notice?
Maybe the game should have a kind of "trigger warning" on its start screen, telling you that it incorporates current news. Not everyone will read the blog, and few people click the "about" button before trying a basic game.