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Are game developers vibe coding with agents? It's such a visual and experiential thing that writing true success criteria it can iterate on seems like borderline impossible ahead of time.
Which is curious since prototyping helps a lot in gamedev.
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I have deliberately moderated my use of AI in large part for this reason. For a solid two years now I've been constantly seeing claims of " this model/IDE/Agent/approach/etc is the future of writing code! It makes me 50x more productive, and will do the same for you!" And inevitabely those have all fallen by the wayside and been replaced by some new shiny thing. As someone who doesn't get intrinsic joy out of chasing…
HN is where I keep hearing the “50× more productive” claims the most. I’ve been reading 2024 annual reports and 2025 quarterlies to see whether any of this shows up on the other side of the hype. So far, the only company making loud, concrete claims backed by audited financials is Klarna and once you dig in, their improved profitability lines up far more cleanly with layoffs, hiring freezes, business simplification,…
If we’re even just talking a 2x multiplier, it should show up in some externally verifiable numbers.
Why am I not surprised that a blog was written about LLM coding going from 20% to 80% useful, yet all of the HN comments are still nit picking about some negative details rather than building positive ideas toward some progress... Is the programmer ego really this fragile? At least luddites had an ideological reasoning, whereas here we just seem to have emotional reflexes.
> LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building. I’ve always said I’m a builder even though I’ve also enjoyed programming (but for an outcome, never for the sake of the code) This perfectly sums up what I’ve been observing between people like me (builders) who are ecstatic about this new world and programmers who talk about the craft of programming…
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Honestly, this seems very much like the jump from being an individual contributor to being an engineering manager. The time it happened for me was rather abrupt, with no training in between, and the feeling was eerily similar. You know _exactly_ why the best solution is, you talk to your reports, but they have minds of their own, as well as egos, and they do things … their own way. At some point I stopped obsessing w…
The only issue is that as an engineering manager you reasonably expect that the team learns new things, improve their skills, in general grow as engineers. With AI and its context handling you're working with a team where each member has severe brain damage that affects their ability to form long term memories. You can rewire their brain to a degree teaching them new "skills" or giving them new tools, but they still…
Why am I not surprised that a blog was written about LLM coding going from 20% to 80% useful, yet all of the HN comments are still nit picking about some negative details rather than building positive ideas toward some progress... Is the programmer ego really this fragile? At least luddites had an ideological reasoning, whereas here we just seem to have emotional reflexes.
It's because we see a bunch of people completely ignoring the missing 20% and flooding the world with complete slop. The push back is required to keep us sane, we need people reminding others that it's not at 100% yet even if it sometimes feels like it.
The fact that people keep pushing figures like 80% is total bs to me
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> I've been trying to implement a multiplayer game with server authoritative networking in Rust with Bevy. I specifically chose Bevy as the latest version was after Claude's cut off, it had a number of breaking changes, and there aren't a lot of deep examples online. I am interested in doing something similar (Bevy. not multiplayer). I had the thought that you ought be able to provide a cargo doc or rust-analyzer equ…
> I had the thought that you ought be able to provide a cargo doc or rust-analyzer equivalent over MCP? This... must exist? I've found that there are two issues that arise that I'm not sure how to solve. You can give it docs and point to it and it can generally figure out syntax, but the next issue I see is that without examples, it kind of just brute forces problems like a 14 year old. For example, the input system…
Well, this is where you still need to know your tools. You should understand what ECS is and why it is used in games, so that you can push the LLM to use it in the right places. You should understand idiomatic patterns in the languages the LLM is using. Understand YAGNI, SOLID, DDD, etc etc.
Those are where the LLMs fall down, so that's where you come in. The individual lines of code after being told what architecture to use and what is idiomatic is where the LLM shines.
I worry about the "brain atrophy" part, as I've felt this too. And not just atrophy, but even moreso I think it's evolving into "complacency". Like there have been multiple times now where I wanted the code to look a certain way, but it kept pulling back to the way it wanted to do things. Like if I had stated certain design goals recently it would adhere to them, but after a few iterations it would forget again and g…
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> Vendors of small utilities could be in trouble. For example I needed to cut out some pages from a pdf. I could have found a tool online(I’m sure there are several), write one myself. However, Claude quickly performed the task. Definitely. Making small, single-purpose utilities with LLMs is almost as easy these days as googling for them on-line - much easier, in fact, if you account for time spent filtering out all…
Whatever happened to just typing "apt install qrencode"? It's definitely "fast, reliable, free of surveillance economy bullshit, and doesn't employ URL shorteners".