criss_cross
@criss_cross@lemmy.world
- Comment on An oopsie occured 10 hours ago:
It may be the one dude that does nothing but come up with dystopian UIs
- Comment on Unfortunate Development for Duke Poop'Em 1 day ago:
You can also hear it rip too. The hot mic caught it.
- Comment on Form over function 2 days ago:
I know you’re getting downvoted for being whooshed but I wanted to say I appreciate the explanation on why this is horrible. This is way out of my areas of expertise lol.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 4 days ago:
Activision does that with all their games now.
It’s the reason I won’t buy a new COD game.
- Comment on Power through 4 days ago:
See. The entire point of the OG HailCorporate was that even if it wasn’t intentional astroturfing, posts and memes can end up being ads for large companies.
It was eventually co-opted to be intentional astroturfing (partially I think to make the community eat itself alive).
But my point is that even if you’re not specifically astroturfing this still unintentionally acts like an ad for Mug root beer and shows how far advertising reaches.
- Comment on Power through 5 days ago:
Hail corporate?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I mean astroturfing reddit was never new. It’s why /r/HailCorporate existed and tools tried to disenfranchise that sub so much.
It’s just 10 times worse because of the phenomenon you described. It also doesn’t help that reddit and walled garden social media killed traditional forums so you don’t have those to index anymore either. You either have SEO garbage sites trying to bombard you with ads and referral links, links to a walled garden you can’t actually see, or reddit posts.
It’s a cycle that’s bound to repeat, especially with AI. Because that’s how MBAs and snake oil salesmen get money, by ruining communal spaces.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 6 days ago:
I feel that.
Even in my current job they’re pushing us to use chatbots and LLMs even when it doesn’t make sense. There’s a lot of people hoping for the mythical productivity boosts that snake oil salesmen are shoveling. Going to the point where they see a future where “you check in prompts to source control because LLMs will be so good at translating those”. Which is batshit but you gotta let c level people learn this the hard way and fire everyone else for their mistakes.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 6 days ago:
As a full time software engineer you’ll get a lot more out of learning how things work, even in the short term, if you properly learn the craft.
Otherwise when something deals you won’t have the tools to debug it. When the work LLMs are great but if things go haywire you wanna be able to stop and triage yourself.
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 6 days ago:
I’ve never had a manager complain about leaving a few minutes early.
It destroys more good will and motivation than the theoretical 40 hour a month. I say theoretical because the odds of anyone getting anything done in those 3 min are astronomically slim.
That employee is never going to stay later to help with anything if they don’t have the wiggle room to leave a few minutes early.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 6 days ago:
So people are idiots. Got it.
I dunno man working on a video game as a side hobby they’re the worst things I’d use for gen ai. There’s too many things from pathing to physics and collision that require human input to make work.
Anytime I’ve tried it’s given some absolute shit results.
- Comment on Choina 1 week ago:
This one is less political and more “take public figure and make them googly eyed”
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 week ago:
It’s kind of the new loyalty test you have to pass for companies nowadays to get a dev job.
“Oh yeah I love AI and want to be replaced by robots. Spank me harder daddy”.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
It was actually their answer to Slack at the time. Which is hilarious because slack is so much better than teams.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
I actually wish they’d build more of those than the overpriced “luxury condos” people build now that no one can afford.
- Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview 2 weeks ago:
And the agents will totally remember anything and don’t have limited context windows that vanish after every command.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 2 weeks ago:
I tried this as a side project and it’s such a pain in the ass to get the bots to actually behave like they’re in a world and not be overly eager losers.
You have to do so much prompting to get them to behave and, as others who have to work with these full time know, prompting can only go so far.
They’re not as autonomous and general usage as companies want to make you think they are.
- Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview 2 weeks ago:
“Right now, we’re doing a big rebuild of our core production APIs. It’s being done by one person with like 20 agents,”
Lmao that’s totally not gonna be a train wreck at all
- Comment on Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week 2 weeks ago:
I’m happy I don’t work there anymore. I joined right before the layoff craze and between the horrible oncall nights and layoffs that was one of the more stressful experiences of my life.
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: 'Space Marine 2' Unveils The Techmarine set for a free update 2 weeks ago:
Which is really funny as Games Workshop typically bleeds users dry on game expansions.
Glad they aren’t here though. I haven’t played SM2 but may pick up on a sale as I’m a whore for anything Ad Mech.
- Comment on Punctuation matters 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!!!
- Comment on Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below) 2 weeks ago:
The classic
- Comment on Punctuation matters 2 weeks ago:
Anyone have the source image for the meme?
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 3 weeks ago:
I was gonna say I do know quite a few coworkers that love all this stuff.
I despise it with the passion of 1000 suns but it’s not universal.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
This is like designing a Game of Thrones fighting game.
You can throw all the clever nods you want into the product. You can read the source material to high heaven and spend all the time in the world perfecting it. You can hire the best and brightest fighting game devs to come in and design the best game ever.
Fundamentally it will never work. Game of Thrones’ charm is in its politics, feeling of isolation, and world building. There’s no way to bring anything out of that in a fighting game. As soon as you put Renly against Joeffry in a match to the death anyone that’s a fan will just look at the product befuddled.
For this reality show you’re taking a franchise that’s known for its single player experience and tight top notch writing for both the games (at least 1 and 2) and tv show and stripping that away in favor of a format that encourages none of that. All it’s going to be is some weird challenge with loser kids going “OMG I WASNT EXPECTING THAT!!” and “What. The. Fuck. “ for 30 minutes. It’s not going to be good. And it’s gonna be a shit stain on the franchise.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 3 weeks ago:
Look at Mr. Moneybags with pan replacing money.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 3 weeks ago:
Some people really think these LLMs are capable of thought and reasoning. It’s horrifying.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 3 weeks ago:
What the fuck is IgniteTech?
- Comment on New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe 4 weeks ago:
Was the game out grazing? Where did they spot it?
- Comment on Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent 4 weeks ago:
It’s like the skievier part of DoorDash listings, where they’d list restaurants that weren’t on the platform, make deliveries for them and send angry customers to them when DoorDash fucked it up.
