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PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

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Re: PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

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Post by WiSaGaN »

I assume this is done with the help of AI? I have done similar vibe project that explaining catastrophic forgetting with the help of AI. It's just so satisfying now that if you really want to learn something, you can always do it with the help of AI. Before, it's hard to find good resources, now it's not a problem, the issue now becomes one's own focus and agency.

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Post by itomato »

futurecat wrote: post #54

Bravo! I have worked in observability for years and I have a deep desire for new visualizations technics inspired by video games. It would be great in XR as well.

Jira professional here, and OpenRCT2 has been my mental (and my agent’s) model for something similar.

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Post by INTPenis »

fragmede wrote: post #63
notachatbot123 wrote: post #49

Considering that it has been vibe-coded with not even 48 hours passed: Is this truthful and accurate at all? Or will it lead to false conclusions and anti-knowledge?

LLMs aren't that bad anymore.

Like any tool they're as good as the wielder.

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Post by willquack »

This is very similar to what I imagine whenever I get into a deep focus state debugging a program in gdb... I would love to experience debugging a program in VR with graphics like this,,, there would be no better way to learn a codebase. I wonder how good an experience you could achieve by generating a 3d map based on arbitrary code

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Post by hectormalot »

nugator wrote: post #67
samokhvalov wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hear you. WIP! thanks for all the feedback. It's amazing for me too. It all started yesterday with a single prompt and curiosity what Opus 5 can do. ~3.86B tokens used so far (not counting GPT 5.6 Sol that at some point started to do a lot of legwork for coding)

~3.86B * $5/M tokens ≈ $19.3k Is that the cost you've payed for this or is my calculation completely wrong?

Likely a lot of those tokens are cached. And because it’s an individual project it’s likely this is under a personal Claude Max 20x plan.

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Post by narmiouh »

samokhvalov wrote: post #33
narmiouh wrote: post #7

I imagined as soon I saw the initial visual that I would somehow be able to enter a query and it would walk me through the flow through the entire system starting from input parsing to all the way to delivering output and perhaps along the way understand some of the autonomous processes that happen in parallel that aren't query specific but run constantly. What others are saying - fantastic attempt, but don't know wh…

try pressing T

That's fantastic, please tell me I was short sighted and missed this when I wrote my comment.
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