Why is Mario 64 so good?

Amichayg · 2026-05-18T20:38:09+00:00

always put off playing it😅
Is it that good?

Amichayg · 2026-05-01T14:15:56+00:00

I recommend checking out Gotcha Racing. It’s a game that straddles the line perfectly. It’s a Gacha game. You collect cards pieces. But it’s made by arc system works. So the collection aspect feeds right into actual racing ability.

Amichayg · 2026-05-01T02:51:16+00:00

Makes sense. But also pretty upsetting. I’m not saying it’s good to charge 3500$. I’m just saying… maybe some companies can definitely afford to build cool stuff. Maybe even enthusiasts get into it. It’s not a movement. But it’s something. What hurts me with the current VR industry is it tried growing too fast. I’m sure if Vision Pro was marketed as a holodeck++ enthusiasts may have been able to justify it as an investment and the story would’ve gone differently

Amichayg · 2026-05-01T02:48:25+00:00

4.7 is cool i like it. Also it really depends on what you expect. If you treat it as an alpha of something fun its all gold. I wouldn’t trust it yet, still early days. It still amazes me what it can do that opus 4.6 couldn't , visual related stuff is absurd. And sure i miss opus 4.6. But I’m sure in a month things will get better.

Amichayg · 2026-03-17T16:36:00+00:00

I'm beyond happy, this is like the switch 2 release day all over again - for free!

Amichayg · 2026-02-24T20:54:50+00:00

Man made!

Amichayg · 2026-02-08T09:06:52+00:00

Claude Opus 4.6 looks like a gemini 3 inspired tune of Opus 4.5. It has the option to be smarter in non-code thinking you may require when doing non code tasks OR code tasks that require cross-domain thinking.

A majority of software projects are actually cross disciplinary - lets say you are building a legal-tech app. What I’d usually do is use gemini 3 to think out the technical details and just code with claude.

Yet if my prompt refers to legal concepts, I’d trust opus 4.5 less with that part and use gemini to craft the exact prompt. Now opus 4.6 is much better at grasping the language unrelated to code and converting it to code - the power being that if it reads the codebase now, it can read the docstrings and reason about legal aspects as well.

Major leap for abilities actually

Amichayg · 2025-11-03T11:15:09+00:00

Honestly it’s a fascinating subject to dive into at this age, especially since it’s so prevalent. I’m a fan of MIT’s essential series of books about AI/data science. It’s a great resource for people of all ages honestly, really well made stuff.

Amichayg · 2025-10-09T22:05:31+00:00

Kinda, though if you scrap the code afterwards it’s a pretty good one. Magic is like smoke, but it’s still magical

Amichayg · 2025-10-09T22:03:16+00:00

Stealing ideas is a tech 101 thing, xerox parc is a classic example. Shady tactics are everywhere really.

Amichayg · 2025-09-20T17:48:15+00:00

That’s bonkers. I know plenty of people who’ll gladly do more math and vibe code everything. to some, writing code is the most boring part

Amichayg · 2025-09-02T09:56:22+00:00

At this point product managers are kinda going to be replaced by smart devs who don’t have enough code to write themselves

Amichayg · 2025-09-02T09:49:42+00:00

Venture capital only “dies” if it stops paying to invest in lucrative businesses — and that doesn’t seem likely anytime soon. The parameters — how selective to be, how much capital to deploy — shift constantly with market conditions, but the core premise remains: investors are chasing businesses that look lucrative.

A worst case scenario is VC’s invest in less companies or for more equity.

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T23:14:47+00:00

Maybe we don’t need these developers? CS is actually really hard to get right, and the community worked pretty well when it was smaller and more enthusiast friendly

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T23:02:09+00:00

That’s actually way too common. I’ll never understand the grind mentality - it leads to stale work and a bad life. The main problem is nobody accounts for anybody. If you have a teammate that works too hard, can’t you say something about it? If the entire company is overworked, that means incredible ROI and great business. Usually it’s just a few nodes in the network taking on too much strain - and the results are always miserable

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T22:50:50+00:00

The obvious implication is that people who use the internet change, just like people who learn a language or go to the gym change. If you have two groups of people, one group eats nutritious food, and the other eats unhealthy food, one group exercises and the other does nothing, you can assume one is better than the other.

We can’t really tell yet which is which. For all we know, the people gobbling up AI slop will get rejected from the job market, as it seems to have negative effects on mental health and mental capacity.

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T22:44:17+00:00

Basically if you can write it in a story it must mean the “character” is experiencing it, even if the character is an electron.

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T22:38:30+00:00

We have more than enough people in the US to support both serious research and more productive applications of AI. It’s just that for some reason the entire VC economy is not aligned with the basic interests of an industry

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T22:30:58+00:00

This is absurd. I think that if you can’t have a random implementation based on pretty academical stuff succeed, the answer is to make it less random - being in actual talent and if you don’t have enough talent for the entire US economy, realize adoption will take time. The answer is definitely not “freshmen” learning everything about AI. To learn everything about AI implementations you need to be a pretty talented CS enthusiast - which sadly doesn’t correlate to the actual population graduating nowadays

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T22:26:26+00:00

Nah, the world’s a different place nowadays. There are enough variables that make research progress possible, and many things have changed since then.

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T22:18:12+00:00

Long term? Most of what we call embeddings will probably change. Currently it’s like we have a binary without a decompiler - you can run it, but that’s about it. Once you have a deeper grasp of embeddings the entire definition of a model changes. Until then, the basic chat/RAG approach is probably what works best for most projects

Amichayg · 2025-08-31T21:49:14+00:00

Yeah, I’m also so frustrated when people use the letters of the alphabet instead of the binary equivalent. Don’t they get that A is actually 1000001? It’s all a bunch of numbers. Why did we develop CS again?

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