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Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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After nearly 40 years, Shep has finally been released! See the Crash magazine "Unclear User" parody. Page 125 of the August 1985 edition for context. [0] [0] https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._19_1985-08_Newsfield_G...

That you remember this from one month before I was born is incredible.

Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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The implied scenario being that the memory of its own output would result in the model producing degraded future output? Why is that a given?

Probably the same reason that close relatives marrying each other for generations produces genetic problems.

Not the same reason at all. In genetics the reason is that you're losing gene variety and eventually recessive genes aren't suppressed anymore. In case of LLM it's just error accumulation.

Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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The political views of flags is a instant stop for me. I wonder what radobank thinks of that. Keep politics out of tech, and especially if you are in the dutch market, it's such a small market, that you would not want something like that to stop a contract in the future, especially seeing that you user to be a zzp'er.

Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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The political views of flags is a instant stop for me. I wonder what radobank thinks of that. Keep politics out of tech, and especially if you are in the dutch market, it's such a small market, that you would not want something like that to stop a contract in the future, especially seeing that you user to be a zzp'er.

> Keep politics out of tech

This is a wild thing to say in 2025.

What 'political views of flags' anyway? I played a few levels and saw no flags, political or otherwise.

Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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The political views of flags is a instant stop for me. I wonder what radobank thinks of that. Keep politics out of tech, and especially if you are in the dutch market, it's such a small market, that you would not want something like that to stop a contract in the future, especially seeing that you user to be a zzp'er.

> Keep politics out of tech This is a wild thing to say in 2025. What 'political views of flags' anyway? I played a few levels and saw no flags, political or otherwise.

OP has Ukrainian and EU flags on his Mastodon profile, which is linked from his GitHub profile. Apparently that’s not acceptable to GP.

Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Keep politics out of tech This is a wild thing to say in 2025. What 'political views of flags' anyway? I played a few levels and saw no flags, political or otherwise.

OP has Ukrainian and EU flags on his Mastodon profile, which is linked from his GitHub profile. Apparently that’s not acceptable to GP.

the reality is, the netherlands is a right leaning country, look at the last election results. A lot of people in the netherlands are very divided about poltics (stop the war, and side with the US, leave the EU, or give more money to ukraine and are pro EU). I hear about this on a daily basis at work. I am quite sick hearing about it. As a hiring manger at one of the big four banks in the netherlands, seeing something like the flags, is a obvious sign as to what side the OP leans towards. Having enough issues on my plate, and not needing another person to start a debate between team members at work is enough for me to stop, and not hire said person. The OP is or was a zzp'er (freelancer) in the netherlands. I think it's a little silly to limit your future contracts by brining in politics into tech. What's the purpose of having it there?

Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP has Ukrainian and EU flags on his Mastodon profile, which is linked from his GitHub profile. Apparently that’s not acceptable to GP.

the reality is, the netherlands is a right leaning country, look at the last election results. A lot of people in the netherlands are very divided about poltics (stop the war, and side with the US, leave the EU, or give more money to ukraine and are pro EU). I hear about this on a daily basis at work. I am quite sick hearing about it. As a hiring manger at one of the big four banks in the netherlands, seeing somethin…

OP is doing nothing wrong, and if you refused to hire them based on their political views, you would be committing a crime: https://www.government.nl/topics/discrimination/prohibition-...

Re: Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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Shepherd's Dog is a game I've wanted to create for a long time, but I never got the sheep flocking behaviour just right. The goal of the game is to herd all the sheep into the pen before nightfall. I've asked several models to create this game and I'm particularly impressed with what Claude 3.7 could do with a one-shot prompt. - You can play the Claude game here (note: doesn't work on Safari for some reason): https:/…

Shepherd's Dog is a game I've wanted to create for a long time Not sure if you're aware, but there was a game like that for playstation and GBA, called Sheep! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_(video_game) Here's some gameplay footage (player here didn't chose a dog to play with for some reason): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP058CHQj20 Premise of the game is the same, you run the sheep to the designated area ov…

Ah thanks for this. The game above is lovely and it’s really similar to what I had in mind (I was also thinking of lemmings!). I see in the other comments below that this idea of mine has been created as a game a lot of times already. Seems like I’m not as original as I thought haha
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