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- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 6 hours ago:
It’s because these people don’t have a clue how AI actually works. They think it’s like a human intelligence and that writing something in all caps is in some way going to give it more emphasis. They’re trying to reason with something that has zero self-awareness.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 6 hours ago:
“Vibe coding makes software creation accessible to everyone, entirely through natural language,” Replit explains, and on social media promotes its tools as doing things like enabling an operations manager “with 0 coding skills” who used the service to create software that saved his company $145,000
Yeah if you believe that you’re part of the problem.
I’m prepared to accept that Vibe coding might work in certain circumstances but I’m not prepared to accept that someone with zero code experience can make use of it. Claude is pretty good for coding but even it makes fairly dumb mistakes, if you point them out it fixes them but you have to be a competent enough programmer to recognise them otherwise it’s just going to go full steam ahead.
Vibe coding is like self-driving cars, it works up to a point, but eventually it’s going to do something stupid and drive to a tree unless you take hold of the wheel and stir it back onto the road. But these vibe coating idiots are like Tesla owners who decide that they can go to sleep with self-driving on.
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 6 hours ago:
It should be renamed to, London plus all surrounding bits of land that we don’t care about. It’s a bit of a mouthful but it would be a more accurate name
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 7 hours ago:
He’s a YouTuber he already has the recording studio setup he’s just using the systems he already has in place
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 1 day ago:
I am not really convinced that otherwise mentally healthy people have a breakdown because of AI. People already teeting on the edge of a mental crisis sure, but pretty much anything could have pushed them over the edge.
Normally it’s Facebook so I guess this is a nice change
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 days ago:
Even Call Of Duty tends to introduce new mechanics in each version.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 days ago:
Wasn’t it more that the game was a buggy mess? No that can’t have been it it was clearly the fans fault.
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 3 days ago:
The article doesn’t really explain. Isn’t this just a computer that belongs to the university or is this actually got something to do with the government.
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 3 days ago:
As the name suggests, a supercomputer has more processing power and can complete more tasks more quickly than a less powerful computer.
The BBC are getting too technical.
- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 4 days ago:
How about an actual referendum on whether or not we need a better system rather than do you want this plaster putting on it?
Single transferable vote is not a solution to the first past the post problem. It’s literally the same system with a minor fix which won’t really result in any change since we effectively live in a two-party system anyway.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
🤥
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
There’s a road near me where because of idiots messing around with the road over the years they’ve ended up with a situation where the speed limit goes from 30 to 50 and yes they also have a camera just before the 50 sign but in fairness to the council I think it’s just a leftover from before the roads got messed around with.
It used to be a 40 to a 50, but then they decided to build some housing on the stretch of road that was 40 and decrease the speed limit to 30.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
But it’s double zero that’s actually twice as slow
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
That’s because Americans learn to drive at like 16 and then as long as they don’t literally run over the instructor they pass.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
I was once pulled over for doing 50 in a 30 and I was just coasting down a long hill.
I’m sorry your defence is that the gravity was doing the work not the engine and therefore the speed doesn’t count? You realise that’s not how it works
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
If you don’t know what the speed limit is then just go at 30. That’s the slowest that any road will ever be unless it’s a suburban housing but then it’s pretty obvious.
The 40 signs are small but they’re also repeated, you get it at the entrance of the 40 and then every couple of metres there’s another 40 time for the entire distance so if you miss one you’ll only be going at 30 for a while and then you’ll see another and it’ll tell you to go at 40.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
No because towns don’t get to set their own speed limits and also fines wouldn’t be paid to the town it would just be paid to the police in general. It all goes into a big pot of money for the entire country.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
Yeah because there hasn’t been a bunch of asset flip slop before. All it’s changed is that they have new tools to make it but there was always crappy stuff on Steam
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
Are algorithms the same as AI?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
I mean that’s exactly how it’s always worked. What’s the difference just because the AI exists
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
Okay great so I’ll use AI to develop every aspect of my game and then just not declare it. After all, there’s no enforcement so why wouldn’t I do that?
The problem is the tag has literally no reason to exist, no one would admit to using AI even if they did so what the bloody hell was the point?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
Hence the problem
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
The problem is you end up with the tag nonetheless.
The description doesn’t apply to the label, no matter how much explanation you provide you’re still going to devalue your game with the AI label so why would any developer admit to that?
The whole thing is just mind numbingly stupid.
Whoever thought this up needs to get out more and actually experience the human condition.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
That’s their fault. They decided on ambiguous definition of AI.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
Does it as far as I can tell if you have the tag you have the tag. There’s no description next to it that says this guy used AI but only for irrelevant background stuff
- Comment on Can I lick it? 4 days ago:
What you’re supposed to do with this stuff is design it in grayscale first, conveying information through shading, and then just add colour afterwards while maintaining the shade.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 4 days ago:
I love that the colour blind compatible version to just incompetentible to everyone else.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 4 days ago:
See, absolutely no order to the periodic table. Utterly useless.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 4 days ago:
Would you rather be MegaHitler or give me this plane ticket for $3?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 5 days ago:
Because I don’t think anybody actually cares that much if you use small pieces of AI code. What people don’t want is everything being AI produced.
Right now though the AI tag is been applied to both scenarios with no distinction.