Lots of people are gambling on AI with big bucks. Some of it is promising but all those bets won’t pay off. I like to think of this mindset as being the human slot machine that people are shoving money into.

It could be but there’s always been so called “10x developers” who just make 10x messes. I think it’s the continuation of an existing phenomenon.

https://www.tyleo.com/blog/the-terminal-star

This is a confusion that you could not have predicted, but primed by your comment, I expected "terminal star" to refer to a suggested predecessor of the AI rockstar. No, it refers to the animated Claude Code star :P

Yeah probably my favorite of the bunch too. I bet there’s a fun project to do to make a customizer for that.

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You must work in QA

I learned the fast shoelace knot from this site years ago. Highly recommend it: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

It’s both functional and a great party trick.

I wrote about this a little bit today too. You’re up against a dopamine machine that writes code for you.

https://www.tyleo.com/blog/the-terminal-star

A lot of good comes out but it can be hard to separate from the parts that just take advantage of your brain.

I mentioned this in a separate thread. It seems like a huge risk to release an online game if you don't do this now. A single bad game can take down a studio. Now there's even more risk because a previously successful game may come with a big bill in the future if you have to do refunds or some late architecture change when you instead want to take a product down to save money.

Perhaps they should just write games in a way where they can actually release server code when they it shuts down?

Perhaps "they" can write games however they want? If you don't like it, don't do business with them?

This is a weird thing to be legislating on.

It's too late to decide not to do business with them once they've stopped you from using a product you already bought.

The word "buy" is defrauding people when the thing purchased can be bricked before even getting it home.

>Perhaps "they" can write games however they want?

No? I don't want any developer to suddenly "want" to write code that bricks my OS for instance. What if they decide to do this after the game was released and I bought it?

I think it’s a great thing to be legislating on. I would like to see it on the federal level, myself.

Consumer protection laws are "weird"? I'd hate to live in your world...

Perhaps "they" are in a country with laws, and the laws now include restrictions on "however they want"?

I'm actually in the industry. I don't think it's as much about supply and demand as it is about expected value of the product.

Most games are expensive to make and most of them fail. Way more than normal software which doesn't have ultra-high marketing costs or diverse staffing needs (Art, QA, game design, etc).

Seems like a local maximum or organizing around an individual’s quirks.

Like all team building I feel like the fundamental question is, “what works for this group of people?”

Rather than “teams with/without calls is superior,” and slamming every team you work with into it.

There are many survival strategies in nature.

Richard Dawkins, coined the concept of extended phenotype which proposes that genes do not just build physical bodies, but actively shape the outside world to ensure their propagation.

I would counter that abstracting out several levels to cite Dawkins on a story about management styles isn't about management styles as much as it is about the friends you make along the way. :)

Patterns patterning - Zen mode. Beat this abstraction.

Caps Lock <—> Esc should honestly be standardized on keyboards. Esc is used pretty often in my experience while Caps Lock, being modal, only gets the occasional press even when used.

Capslock <-> Backspace is my #1 keyboard config. Esc is not bad either. BUT WHY DO I NEED A LARGE KEY FOR SHOUTING?