LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at

I've worked on a fair few games now but it's sort of wild knowing one is on real life plastic discs people are already playing.

Less thrilled that it's being received EXACTLY HOW I WOULD'VE EXPECTED IT TO BE but you can't have it all #gamedev

#ai

"Yes", I tell myself ordering another widget I've bought for a series of hobbies I won't have time to properly explore until the year 2035. "This is absolutely the right time to purchase this item".

#millenialdadthings #photography #videogames #NintendoSwitch2 #guitarGear #homebrewbeer #ttrpg

it was crypto that firmly established to me that the efficient market hypothesis was hilarious bollocks at all levels and anyone advancing it is probably running a con themselves

I'm gonna start cross-posting my photography on here because no-one can stop me, also I should probably use this place more.

#photography #howdoesmastadonworkagain

https://flic.kr/p/2qFoXFU

#metalgearsolid
#mgs

#EdgeMagazine

#StarTrek

(Cries in >28 months) #indiedev #gamedev

It's finally happened :D

#windows11

#StarTrek

To all the people who took Elon Musk seriously as a free speech hero: I’m sorry everyone is being mean and saying bad things to you. That’s not kind or fair. I know it hurts. Fortunately I can help. I have this here handful of magic beans, and for a comparatively low and reasonable price, they /1

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place I also asked ChatGPT to write me a program in Brainfuck. Its answer was actually more insidious than just a refusal.

I asked it to write a program that would output the word "Apple". It provided a block of code, and a step-by-step explanation for how the code would output "Apple". Which held up until one examined the steps and realized they made no sense.

Running the code through an interpreter produced (unsurprisingly) the output "Hello World". The code it was able to find is the most prevalent Brainfuck code: "Here is this esoteric language and here's how to write everyone's first program with it."

But it lied. It said that it had done what I asked, and it even explained how it had done it, and all of it was the same Chinese Room nonsense.

And that's the denouement, really - it _didn't_ lie. It can't lie, because it knows not what it does. It has no concept of truth, or of fact, or even of the meaning of words, just of what words best fit a complex algorithm. And even with that knowledge, I find it hard not to anthropomorphize the thing.

200 Temba, his arms wide
302 Mirab, with sails unfurled
403 Chenza at court, the court of silence
404 Kadir beneath Mo Moteh
500 Shaka, when the walls fell

OH: “it’s called a commit because my code is a crime”

Just read in a thread that the Norwegian term for “fediverse” that’s being adopted is “allheimen” and it roughly translates to “all-home”

Which got me thinking about the Icelandic word for “computer” - “tölva”, which is a portmanteau of the Icelandic words for “number” and “sorceress”

A lot of languages import English loan words wholesale, but Germanic languages seem to really enjoy assembling poetic equivalents out of existing parts in order to internalize the concepts