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Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by throawayonthe »

simoncion wrote: post #269
ryandrake wrote: post #260

Total aside, but the wildest thing I found about the article was OP's chill attitude about being laid off. He just glossed over it at the very beginning! "Oh, jeez, I got laid off, what a bummer. I guess I'll just spend some quality time with my family and dog now!" Props to OP, I could never. If I was suddenly laid off, I'd be an absolute wreck, mentally. It would be four-alarm fire time, and I doubt I'd get a good…

> Don't people have rent/mortgages to pay anymore? Are you too early in your working life to have catastrophe savings [0]? If you're not, is it seriously going to be a four-alarm fire if you suddenly got fired? Related, like, do you have a plan for what happens if unexpected injury prevents you from doing the work you're doing ever again? [0] let alone "fuck you" savings

i mean, if you're forced to use your catasrophe savings, that still sorta makes it a catastrophy situation

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by gpvos »

It would be nice if the dog could play the game and its input could improve it. Why not a setup with those large buttons on the floor that some people have to let their cat or dog communicate with them?

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by gpvos »

pixelpoet wrote: post #124
dustycyanide wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hilarious, I'm in the office and had to try pretty hard not to laugh out loud

My goodness, finished all your Jira tickets early this week huh? That's a good boy! [fuzzy scritches and wharrgarbling intensifies] Honestly I wouldn't mind a bit of that now and then myself, but I guess stable employment will have to do. Or is that only for the vibecoding horses?

The salary and health benefits are essentially treats.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

cardanome wrote: post #136
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the engineering is in the scaffolding, not the prompting Well, yes. Feeding random tokens as prompts until something good comes out is a valid strategy.

Not that I condone any form of gambling but I would rather play actual slot machines instead of spending hundreds of dollars on tokens in hopes that the AI blesses me with anything useful.

This sort of thing is usually done on the frontier of LLM research. (Role play with local models.)

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Post by pamcake »

margorczynski wrote: post #290
sl-1 wrote: post #275

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This can be a bit of a class thing. If one has enough money/capital/savings to weather the unemployment, why panic? And if one has been raised in environment where there never are such buffers, panic is the default answer.

Some people are basically "built" around working and getting laid off is devastating to them even if they have cash reserves to live like kings until the end of their lives.

Nothing a good burnout can't straighten out..

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Post by embedding-shape »

ryandrake wrote: post #278
simoncion wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Don't people have rent/mortgages to pay anymore? Are you too early in your working life to have catastrophe savings [0]? If you're not, is it seriously going to be a four-alarm fire if you suddenly got fired? Related, like, do you have a plan for what happens if unexpected injury prevents you from doing the work you're doing ever again? [0] let alone "fuck you" savings

I mean, by now I have savings, but I still kind of live as though I don't. The way I was taught was that you're never supposed to touch your savings. If you have to, it's a huge problem. If the balance is going up, that's normal, and if the balance is going down, that's a raging fire.

As someone who lived off my savings for the last 5-6 years, I'm glad you cannot see my balance :)

And also I learned that apparently my life is a raging fire, fun! :)

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Post by randomtoast »

with wrote: post #37

the real takeaway is buried at the bottom: "the magic isn't in the input, it's in the system around it." random keystrokes producing playable games means the input barely matters anymore. we're basically at the point where the engineering is in the scaffolding, not the prompting.

> the magic isn't in the input, it's in the system around it.

It isn't [this], it's [that]. Is AI slop, just saying.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by dirkc »

ryandrake wrote: post #260

Total aside, but the wildest thing I found about the article was OP's chill attitude about being laid off. He just glossed over it at the very beginning! "Oh, jeez, I got laid off, what a bummer. I guess I'll just spend some quality time with my family and dog now!" Props to OP, I could never. If I was suddenly laid off, I'd be an absolute wreck, mentally. It would be four-alarm fire time, and I doubt I'd get a good…

The theme, being retrenched by Meta and the comment from the OP [1] makes me think they may not be that chill about the whole situation.

I think they're subtly taking a stab and AI motivated retrenchments while showing off some hard skills that could potentially get them gainful employment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145647

ps. @OP, sorry to hear about the retrenchment, I can't imagine it being pleasant. Good luck with whatever comes next!

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