"tHe PrOgReSs hAs bEeN iNsAnE"
Must be nice to have a rich parent.
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Rich kid uses parents' money to hire a company to port the game
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A new way to look at vibe coding to point out that it isn't coding.
It's hiring a company. In the year 2012, you could email someone with a request for something you want made, and if you have money they'll reply back over network the code you need.
AI companies just tightened that loop. You hired a company to write software for you. That doesn't make you a developer or a programmer.
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when Nintendo figures out where to send the lawsuit
We added a child-sized crank to the orphan crushing machine so they can help participate younger than ever!
Of course there are now whales in Open Source, lol
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I wonder how far $9000 would have gone if it was donated to real people working on a port instead.
In either case I'll never lower myself to voluntarily consume AI slop.
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So he is not a developer at all, just a slopmachine prompt writer.
I've gotten in the habit of looking at all software for LLM commits on their Github page.
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So the developer is Anthropic 🤷♂️ If I order some specific pizza, am I the cheff who made it?
It took piracy to make AI. It took piracy to make AI profitable.
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i just called out another "developer" for saying they made a program, and then said they had claude code it for them and all they did was "test" it. not a fucking developer if you didn't write the fucking code. it's like saying i just came back from a trip to Hawaii and all you did was look at pictures of Hawaii from google image search on your phone
I am very confused. $9,000 in API costs, but also Claude Max subscription? Shouldn't it be $100-200/mo?
I had thought its either/or, either you pay per token, or a fixed subscription.
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For those of you who feel sorry for Nintendo with this situation, I blamed Nintendo. It's come to the point where they have to realize that PC is a viable platform that they need to utilize instead of avoiding it. When they avoid it and don't do an official release, this is what they get. Your games on PC are inevitable now with or without you. It's a reality. Adopt.
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Can't wait for the shoe to drop and horror stories of the "hEaD dEv" have their computer wiped because the generative AI agent did something it wasn't tasked to do. That's always the hope so that way we can laugh at their punishment.
That, or in the case of generative AI, I am willing to side with the capitalist cthulu cult leaders since I hate the generattive AI cthulu beast "we" are creating even more. In other words, for once would absolutely side with sintendo if they sued the kid into taking down "their" "work" all because of the usage of generative AI.
Hell, maybe the parents, or more likely some 3rd party paid by the parents if the kid is constantly going through accounts and can afford to do it, would then step in and teach that kid a lesson. I'd hope it's a lesson on being a decent human and not using generative AI for anything, but if they're a rich enough family, you know there won't be any serious life lesson.
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I legit started to cheer for Sony and Nintendo recently lol. I hate how people act like this is a good thing.
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Some random 14yo kid has 9k dollars to spend on Claude code. Fuck my life.
The issue lies with knowing what the code does that AI produces, if you don't have a clue and still use it that is when you are a vibe coder in my book.
If you just use it to increase productivity and improve code then I don't see any issue with that and it does not make you any less of a developer. Times have changed, Stack Overflow is from the past.
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It actually has been insane though. I remember as a kid losing my n64 in a flood and waiting months at a time for single bug fixes to pj64 and some other emulator, plus the graphics, audio, and control plugins. Then in recent years while I was too busy with work recomps like ship of harkinian dropped and gave native+ performance on literally any hardware.
Now on top of the existing iffy at best legality we have llm code, but its moving freakishly fast. Literally 2 days before ocarina released I tried it out on one of the myriad forks of the eden switch 1 emulator, and based on the before times I would have said its months away from 80% playable.
Its been 6 days? It started at playable if you are okay with relaunching to clear full screen graphical bugs and just tolerating things like leaves disappearing when you get close to them, or inconsistent fps that capped at maybe 46fps even for people with bleeding edge gpus. Now barring specific gpu issues you can expect fairly consistent 60 frames with some new scene hangups from shaders compiling, and maybe the occasional model flashing white or glow from behind geometry seams for like 1 frame. On a still decent am4 cpu and a 5700xt gpu.
It's most definitely not just one kid's multiple ai subscriptions though. Its like 30+ with some of them also having multiple. There are so many forks of forks of the emulators just cherrypicking single bug fixes amongst many that are just ai bullshit that only had the appearance of working under very specific conditions. Currently as the gamer finding which fork gives functional performance on your specific hardware is the hard part, but eventually the working fixes will consolidate on the main forks.
I hate to be "that guy" but who/what do you think is writing Windows updates
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