Josh Caratelli

The Rover in Surry Hills is fantastic.

Our next game is Verminsteel!

You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun

PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Seeing people looking at contemporary engines and go "oh yeah 20 min compile times on a thread rippeer is normal" just makes me sad.

Computers are really, really fast these days! That's not normal!

Thanks for the insight! I used for a while on a personal project, in preparation for a conference panel on AI I was on, and didn't find any benefit at the time but that was a while ago now.

For environmental + legal reasons I'll steer clear still, but glad to hear it's having some benefit for you.

Stop bringing logic into this Ben! That's far less fun the brrrt let's burn money, the envrionment, and frankly my sanity.

To be fair to GenAI, it is not _useless_ like NFTs, it is more akin IMHO to the metaverse. It has its use cases, but the actual usability of the tech is around 0.001% of what is being sold.
The bullshit hype train pump and dump cash grab is 100% analogous to NFTs tho.

I think the character limit is tripping is up here and we're not able to get our points across properly, appreciate you taking the time to chat! :)

I had only metioned boilerplate as that's the example you gave. Would you mind sharing some recent examples of what you've used it for?

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Ah okay we must be encountering very different problems in our day to day. I'm really not encountering that much boilerplate where it'd be faster for me to wait for a prompt to spit out something I'd need to copy and paste.

Someone has discovered an electric hammer, which has some great specific uses, and I don't think we should be using it as a weird screwdriver.

I'd spend a bunch of time reviewing the boilerplate to make sure it didn't stuff up. And you don't need Gen AI to write that, plenty of tools to do it locally have existed for years.

Also if you're writing code that required THAT much boilerplate I'd question how you're solving the problem

No I'm not worried on missing the boat on AI. I'm not the one who's offloading my critical thinking skills to a sycophant.

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

My jaw dropped when I got to the twist that Ars Technica then published an LLM-generated article about this whole mess full of hallucinated quotes from Shambaugh that he did not ever actually say

Douglas Adams couldn't have written this

I tried Rust recently and even with full Symbols, LTO off etc a bunch of stuff was still optimised away.

From the forums I read it's be deisgn and the answer is to use Printf's or better "just write write tests"!?

Insane, silly behaviour.

With the amount of gambling ads on YouTube, I can't leave my dog alone anymore with "Dog TV - 9 HOURS of Sheep Relaxation" because she just ends up on Sportsbet blowing our life savings away.

AI / LLM's are just a reverse compression tool.

The average worker is using it to expand their dot points into a longer email.

The recipient is using it to summarise the long email back to dot points.

Guzzle some water and burn a forest along the way.

Ethernet Enabled Hills Hoist

Mo is one of the loveliest people you can meet, definitely reach back out and you'll have a friend for life mate.

What the fuck did I just read? I'm not sure who's hallucinating harder - the AIs or the humans using the AI. Into the sea with all of them...

In today's episode of 'everyone THINKS they can be a game designer'.

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Me when I see @teanah.bsky.social, or when Tina and I see anything dinosaur related.

crunch in games is reckless, it’s running a car without oil or care, watching sparks fly and smoke billow and going “that’s what maximum efficiency sounds like, when parts fail I’ll replace them knowing I squeezed 110% from them”

except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid

The VFX is restricted to North America, sorry!

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I had the most Aussie day yesterday:

- Tyre blowout on the highway due to extreme heat from the bushfires

- Did a mild ocean rescue when our nephew got caught in a rip at the beach

- Got stung by an insect or something in bed while trying to sleep

Still love it though. Strayaaaaaaaaaaa

Haha well played. Also yeah that's very fair!