This is a fascinating article about AI-based productivity claims, with a ton of data to back up his claims. Definitely worth a read regardless of your stance on AI.
https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding
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mastodon 4.7.3Hobbyist game developer that works with FOSS like #Blender and #Godot.
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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
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@Gargron@mastodon.social @luap42@chaos.social @ErikUden@mastodon.de "Revealed in time" is an odd name for a color but you do you
I took a break from my main project to participate in the GoedWare summer game jam. It technically has another day but I won't have time so this is the final product: an observatory simulator with planets, galaxies, and comets! Everything is done with shaders and random noise so no 2 planets or galaxies will look exactly alike. Like all my jam games it's fully open-source too.
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@carapace@mastodon.social this sounds like a gamified version of the computing systems course I took in college. Which is awesome, I loved that course.
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@cutesobri re-creating classics from scratch is always a good learning experience. Game jams are awesome too if you have the time, since you'll often get feedback from other entrants.
Just finished a decently sized refactor that resulted in fewer lines of code (+122/-134), eliminated bugs, and makes everything a little more readable. I will absolutely ride this high for the next week. #indiedev #justprogrammerthings
Making a system for quests/missions does a lot to make it feel less like a bunch of disconnected vignettes and more like a game. Bonus: the shop actually sells things now!
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social that's a really good article. I figured the heat dissipation and power would be obvious arguments against them, but I didn't even consider the radiation and comms issues.
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@britown excellent article, brought me right back to my graduate algorithms days doing decision trees and alpha/beta pruning :)
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@Crissa@meow.social that chord lookup tool is really cool! Love a good piece of hand-crafted artisanal code haha.
Alright, this looks absolutely adorable: The Granny Detective Society
#indiegames
The Granny Detective Society - Official Demo Trailer | Thinky Direct 2026
Random game idea while playing Connect Four with my kids: ConnectGo, where you try to surround and capture the opponents pieces. The liberties system would have to be reworked slightly as you can't remove pieces in the middle but maybe there's something here... 🤔