nicetryguy

I'm right there with you!

Ok, i just generally disagree with the premise. Why does it have to be "100% vibe coded" or "0% vibe coded"? There is a very happy medium that is getting ignored here. As a coder with various language experiences, i can just get like a good kick and a template with Claude and continue in any language i want and have the LLM do the redundant parts. As someone with some soldering experience, i could have an LLM cook up and explain a circuit that might have taken me months trying to mangle myself. I think LLMs empower creativity more than ever, and creative people can have a wonderful time with LLMs softening the initial headbanging and tedious redundancies of any project.

It's not that simple. Claude Code allows you to use the Anthropic monthly subscription instead of API tokens, which for power users is massively less expensive.

"Vibe Coding" seems like magic at first but starts falling apart realllll quick at a certain complexity level or if you want to make changes to existing code. If you don't keep an eye on your architecture, you will end up with a bowl of untangleable spaghetti code and some comically terrible engineering choices. That said, agentic coding in the right hands with well defined tasks can have you outputting days / weeks of work in one session; it's not every task, it's not every session, but if you can drive the "idiot savant" in the right direction it's truly an awe-striking and almost alien process to behold.

Yeah. We're entered the Smartphone stage: "You want the new one because it's the new one."

Very generic, broad and bland presentation. Doesn't seem to have any killer features. No video or audio capabilities shown. The coding seems to be on par with Claude 3.7 at best. No mention of MCP which is about the most important thing in AI right now IMO. Not impressed.

This thread was about the livestream and the other thread was about the article, disagree but ok

Yeah, they sure clicked away from it very fast and kept adjusting the scrollbars. It was confusing what it was trying to display. Furthermore, the prompt contained "Canvas" and "SVG" while as someone with webdev experience these are certainly familiar concepts, i wouldn't consider those in the "casual lexicon" for a random user trying to help a middle schooler with homework. I'm not impressed...

IMO Claude 3.7 could have done a similar / better job with that a year ago.

I don't always make 6502(ish) errors, but when i do, it's usually the memory address instead of the immediate! It's a very common and easy mistake to make, and i believe Chuck Peddle himself deeply regretted the (number symbol, pound sign, hashtag) #$1234 syntax for immediate values. I made # appear bright red in my IDE, it helps, a bit... Even the ASM gods at Rare fell victim to the same issue!

AWS? Possibly. They have a huge head start and haven't lost much ground yet. The warehouses and physical delivery? No way in hell. Any competing physical infrastructure would take a decade from the first shovel hitting the ground today.

AWS is the money maker ... everything else is incidental.

Considering Amazon kills and steals all kinds of small businesses and ideas that would be a godsend for Americans.

Andy Jassy ... said working faster was essential because competitors would gain ground if Amazon doesn’t give customers what they want “as quickly as possible” and cited coding as an activity where A.I. would “change the norms.”

Bruh, no competitor is going to set up an army of datacenters and warehouses on the gargantuan scale of amazon anytime soon... What do customers want? How about fixing your search function accuracy and policing the disgusting influx of scam products with fake reviews!!! Ugh. How about you get AI working on THAT jackknife...

The lockout chip(s) are physical chip(s) on the cart and in the console that communicate directly with each other on the cart pins. The CPU is not involved. It's not a "secret key" in the cryptography sense per se.

Incredibly good video editing, unbridled insantiy, cheers!

With how they are releasing models and keeping the open source spirit alive? I hope to god they are. Let the quants cook!

Amazing resource, classic at this point, still probably the best place to start a 6502 journey. I became an NES romhacker with released projects thanks to this as a first step!

Curious, how did you get this contract?! I'd love a retro game dev gig like this. I have projects on RHDN on several different retro consoles and processors (6502 / Z80 / 65C816) and can work my way around WLA and the Mesen debugger with the best of 'em!

Also did you come up with a famicom audio expansion chip yourself? That's amazing!

Bringing up Facemash in the second sentence isn't doing anyone any favors, even if i agree with the message of the article, it just blatantly comes off as a hit piece. Comparing zucks college project with the empire of billions of users he eventually amassed is just disingeneous and uncalled for, and it makes me immediately distrust the author.

Major Cookie Clicker / Upgrade Complete vibes with this with a touch of social critique, love the descent into absolute chaos. Fun game and incredible artwork!

Great for the winter! In all seriousness, amazing work. It's been tough to get tubes lately with the whole Ukraine situation sadly...

If 3 delicious cans of Pepsi: The Taste of a Generation cost six dollars, how much does each thirst quencing soda can cost individually? We solve this by...

I still use Winamp! Why? Well, i listen to video game soundtracks, but not compressed or even high quality recordings, the actual source files ripped from the games and reproduced with plugins much like an emulator would. You can even juice quality settings way past what the original consoles would play them back as, such as being tied to 22kHz on a Sega Genesis or 32kHz on a Super Nintendo, i can reproduce the original songs at 96kHz lol. The sound quality is far superior than any compressed / lossless / uncompressed / or even an original hardware solution for that matter.

Now, there are plenty of individual players for these files, HOWEVER, if i want to play ALL of the music from ALL of the consoles on one playlist, there is no valid substitute for the Winamp plugin system. So yes, valid use cases still exist, and i will be whipping the llamas ass for the foreseeable future.

Those concerns seem legit? Surprised at the negativity here.

Ok, haven't i been hearing Rust Evangelists SCREAMING at the top of their lungs for the last decade about memory safety, how every other language is unsafe, archaic, unusable, etc; and this bug is (checks notes) ...a memory overwrite?

Discord: Where valuable information goes to die =(

It's gonna hit hard in a decade or so how awesome forums were and how much irreplaceable knowledge from the 2010s / 20s has vaporized into oblivion.

Gosh, of all people, i'm interested in your thoughts particularly on using a subreddit as an official support / forum alternative.

I've basically completely replaced Google in my day-to-day (for GPT4)

That's ...not good.

GPTx gets alot of surface topics right but when you delve into gritty specific details it will just start rambling like a straight jacket lunatic with the confidence of a used car salesman. The rubber meets the road when i try to compile code that uses libraries or functions that don't exist or it leads me to hallucinated imaginary github repos. I worry that this use of GPTx would be like getting water from lead pipes: it would seem fine on the day-to-day while my mind is slowly poisoned with nonsense and insanity.

Google has certainly taken a nosedive in result quality for sure the last few years but Kagi has been amazing for me lately.

the SNES didn't have a graphics processor

It absolutely did! Even the NES had one. In addition to the (cloned) Motorola 65c816 SNES CPU, the PPU (picture processing unit) was a custom chip that offered several different layouts for spitting out tile based backgrounds and sprites as each scanline physically drew across the CRT TV. It was even capable of fancy things like background rotation and scaling (Mode 7, think Mario Kart) and hardware transparences which you can see in many games. Furthermore, in the case of Doom (and games like Starfox) the cart was baked in with the "Super FX" chip that handled the 3d calculations. So you were actually dealing with two graphics processors for that specific title, heh.

Here's a wonderfully (and painfully) detailed series about the SNES hardware by Retro Game Mechanics Explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ibhDU2SAI&list=PLHQ0utQyFw...

Yet the top answer is "this is gibberish"

They're not wrong really. It is gibberish on it's own. We don't know where in memory that it starts or the places it is referencing in the jumps. If it were ASM source code those jumps would likely contain labels instead of just raw dogging memory locations.

The fact that it just so happens to be from COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 3 is a wonderful bit of detective work, but it doesn't make the snippet any less gibberish.

Thank god the EU (and sometimes Cali) are finally standing up to these huge tech companies. The federal legislative and executive branches of BOTH parties don't seem to have that type of spine as the stagnant wages and purchasing power of millennials and gen z continues its death spiral.