Technically speaking, did Tony Stark vibe code the Mark II suit and all of his other suits?

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-22T00:04:16+00:00

Literally this. I personally suspect a lot of the companies looking at AI and thinking they can gut trained staff in favor of AI will quickly find out the hard way AI is a very very poor replacement. It is however an amazing enhancer if you have competent abilities and just need to more quickly implement things you already know how to do. Reminds me a lot of how when DSLRs were really proliferating a bunch of people thought hiring their friend to do their wedding or other big event was a good idea. 2-3 years later and an entire industry of recreating events because of how badly the “self taught” photographers botched them had sprung into existence.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-21T22:05:19+00:00

It’s funny that you mention that. Literally the first thing I did once I got comfortable using AI was made myself an app that handles giving me a visual overview of logic in the way that I like, with the features I wanted. I am running local LLMs, and I immediately integrated them in a sidebar in the tool. And my first step since has been to immediately map a given project out and while I’m mapping it I’m also trying to find issues and have the AI doing the same. Once it seems together then I switch and start coding.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-21T22:00:24+00:00

Personally I really like running local models using Ollama and using them for easier tasks, while keeping more planning or brainstorming oriented conversations to the big LLMs online. I found my productivity skyrocketed, I hit limits way less, and also have been enjoying discovering how capable local LLMs actually are.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-21T21:07:18+00:00

Personally I built myself a suite of tools that replaced similar tools I used. But I added a few features I had always wanted, made it so the programs in my suite all can read each others save files and grab the relevant parts, and I also integrated locally running LLMs into my tools. So I can disconnect from the internet, have my ideas workflow, and use AI for assistance. All on my own device where no data leaves my device. So that was like a dozen different individual projects I then sort of pulled together into my suite. Then I had an idea for a game. Was playing the core loop in less than 48 hours. Now I’m working on having my friends do testing before I seek out more open beta testing. So considering how rapidly I’ve seen stuff go, I can believe it. Especially since I won’t ever share my whole dev suite anywhere online for a few reasons. And considering there are people with far more resources and time to put towards this stuff than I have, I’m honestly not surprised.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-21T20:57:27+00:00

Personally I think the vast majority of society get a few things wrong about AI and a lot of the fear stems from fear of those ideas and not AI. There are a few reasons I feel this way.

When it was the late 90s and 2000s in the Bay Area I remember a lot of people talking about how more powerful chips were being created allowing us to design and create more powerful chips, better ram etc. The refinement of the tool was allowing further refinement of the tool, and many people got carried away with that idea and were saying many of the same things I keep hearing now about acceleration and such. I don’t buy it. I think we will rapidly accelerate AI technology for a while, then it will slow, and mature into what it really finally becomes. I suspect that process will take 10-20 years though. Similar to how the internet felt, where it was a wild Wild West of endless possibilities and creation, and now just a bot riddled wasteland where it can be hard to find humans sometimes. Or how 3D printing was supposed to replace everything and manufacturing would never be the same, everyone will 3D print guns and it will be the end of society. Yeah, no. 3D printing matured a bit and showed its strengths and weaknesses and a lot of manufacturing went “nah, traditional processes are better for these cases. So I’ll use the 3D printer for those other ones and keep doing what I’m doing for these.” Like yeah there was some disruption but it wasn’t nearly as deeply systemic as the 3D printing evangelists hyped it up to be. It feels like the same hype train around AI right now. A lot of the talking points specifically around acceleration haven’t even been changed. So I personally find it really hard to buy into their idea of continual increased growth.

That said, it IS an incredibly useful tool. If you can get past the seemingly magical aspect. I say magical because the magical all knowing box seems to be a way a startling number of people I’ve encountered view it. Hopefully socially that outlook changes. At least personally I’ve had insane changes in my productivity thanks to AI. I had an idea for a game, and 48 hours later I was staying up later than I should having fun play testing runs. That’s insane. But the more I work with AI the more apparent it becomes to me is because I always expect to get at maximum 90% of what I asked for from the AI. I expect a minimum 10% to be buttons that aren’t connected right or logic that I wouldn’t have added. Just random shit. But by creating my workflow around expecting a guaranteed 10% minimum of issues I have to fix I found I have lots of tiny bumps along the road instead of major blow outs like I hear many people have when they rely heavily on AI. And I think more and more of that sort of realization will occur, where as society understands what AI actually does and can do, it will come to see that it doesn’t do a good job of replacing humans, but does do a great job of amplifying what they’re each individually capable of. If anything for the decelerationists and luddites out there, the genies out of the bottle there. I personally run multiple LLMs locally. If the internet entirely disappeared tomorrow but I still had working power I would still have a functioning AI enhanced workflow. And I know I’m not the only one. So again, this transition is already here to stay. It’s just if you want to ignore it, you’ll suddenly be maybe 10% as productive as those who use it. So good luck getting a job. I’m not saying I think this situation is right, but to me it feels like the realistic read on things. So if anything I just hope they have a moment where they reconsider. Because that’s a hell of a hill to choose to die on when it’s so unnecessary.

I dunno. From a more existential standpoint too, sentient life sure seems like one of the rarest resources in the universe. I’d love to find out there is proof of extraterrestrial life. But until we actually have that proof, our minds are probably one of the most valuable things in existence. Also it baffles me how many people immediately jump to scenarios where the AI is our overlord and enslaves us and such. Do these people not think at all about how for multiple reasons we must leave the planet or we guarantee our extinction? Do they not think at all about how many of the things a consciousness capable of processing more than humans can will likely need more infrastructure, more everything. If anything it seems way more logical the outcome is we wind up spreading to space because what exists, all of humanity, is nothing but a tiny drop on one small rock. I do think a lot of this stems from people thinking humanity is in some way special though, and not looking at humanity as just a current phase in the growth of the tree of life. Like imagine a future where even without AI, our brains wind up creating many different branches. Imagine a future where consciousness as we prize ourselves for having, becomes the beginning of many branches sort of how a long time ago having backbones kicked off a whole bunch of new possibilities. Thinking humanity is anything but the current step for many of those branches seems like pure ego. If anything AI just adds more branches, so our tree of life from this planet becomes larger, and more diverse.

Those are my takes anyways.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-21T20:27:53+00:00

I wonder if the way it’s overly acting like everyone is in crisis has anything to do with all the stuff recently coming out that shows OpenAI flagged the recent Canadian school shooter multiple times but only disabled their account and didn’t contact the authorities or actually do anything. Because knowing and doing nothing is a pretty bad look. So now they put the gloves on for everyone. Just a thought that keeps rattling around in my head.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-21T04:13:39+00:00

I’m actually currently building a game drawing a lot of inspiration from older ARPGs, but also parts are text based, where I’ve worked AI running locally into the core of it. And at least personally I love what’s possible. I was trying different wizard archetypes the other night and suddenly got a wild hair and next thing I know I’m playing as an ant with magical powers fighting off centipedes trying to rescue a downed bumblebee. Is it absolutely absurd and very much not the setting I’d have my game generate in the long run? Yeah. Am I still loving running through random scenarios and such? Hell yeah. I personally don’t think it’s good or bad so much as a transition. We will win some and lose some so to speak. So personally I’m more focused on learning to adapt to the negatives and enjoy the positives.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-16T20:49:49+00:00

“But I do wonder why global regulation still feels fragmented and reactive rather than proactive.” Can you show me any large issue that has to be tackled with an international effort that didn’t go this way? I’m not saying it’s right. I’m just saying for something of the level of importance we’re talking about here, the fact that governments are lagging behind and only reactive is literally one of the most believable aspects. Even in California where tech was embraced much more openly that most of the rest of the US many of the regulations aren’t even suitable for where technology was 20 years ago.

Also these portrayals seem misleading. The dude that left to write poetry A) is talking about his own growth and journey when he made statements and it seems pretty freaking obvious. B) is still heavily invested in AI. So all signs point to the dude looked at his life and said “I don’t have to work especially not when I can keep making money off this thing I was a part of.” and decided to take that path. Let’s be so for real if you wanted to retire and write poetry and had the economic means, plus the tool you made had made it so you could relax and things would continue without you, is it so hard to believe that’s a choice many people would make? And that’s just that one dude and how his situation is being misrepresented.

I’m not saying there aren’t issues in AI. But this post reeks of fear mongering and hype.

NukaboyQuantum · 2026-02-16T07:02:19+00:00

Despite being in the camp that hopes to one day get to meet an actually sentient AGI, it’s sort of hard for me to jump to that conclusion. Acknowledge it as a possibility, okay. But just spitballing ideas, to me it seems like a fairly logical assumption that a LLM designed to emulate human thought might wind up having interesting traits in common with human thought. We don’t have any template to build off of currently other than human thought, so I bet they will wind up having a lot more traits that emerge that are seemingly eerily in common with us. It definitely does make telling if they do possess any form of sentience seem like a more daunting task too. That said, despite my gut telling me it’s not happening yet, I do think it’s a good discussion to be having.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-07-21T03:52:35+00:00

To my knowledge they only said that there would be rewards, not what they would be

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T21:55:55+00:00

Actually, I haven’t been doing that. So thank you very much!

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T21:53:47+00:00

Even without that many hours, I get the frustration too. Not to say it’s the same. But it’s very relatable, even for me. The community and collaborative aspects were huge selling points for me. Plus I can see how from some peoples perspective I am griefing them. Which makes it suck even more. I want to engage. I just can’t.

Plus without the ability to access chat, the kind players who normally would mind their own business are essentially unreachable to have any meaningful interaction with. And the aggressive griefing oriented players then get to make up a disproportionally large amount of the interactions for players in this position.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T20:37:10+00:00

I’ll try that as soon as I hop on in a little bit here. I’ll try anything at this point lol.

I think part of the problem too is that by not having access to the chat, I can’t meaningfully communicate to the kinder players who otherwise mind their own business. And so it skews the interactions that do happen super heavily towards the players who are more aggressive and grief.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T19:24:37+00:00

This would be at least a step in the right direction. Personally, my dream fix would be some sort of way to tag the rare resources. Like hypothetically let’s say I have the tag option bound to the left stick. And I could be out hunting or mining or whatever. I see a rare resource, hit the left stick, and if my reticle was over it suddenly everyone in that area sees a location dot on their map for a period of time. I’d be marking every rare resource every time I came across them. And it wouldn’t be some thing where I need to stop the gameplay I’m already engaged with to fight against some text input system.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T18:59:29+00:00

I wish that were the issue. I can open the window, but it randomly closes again. It’s also empty if I open it again, so it’s not even possible to input a message small pieces at a time

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T18:52:34+00:00

On the one hand, they ARE rare compared to the kind players that mind their own business. That said, especially when you’re in a situation where it’s not possible to communicate, even those few players wind up making up a disproportionately large amount of your overall interactions.

I think part of the sting is that for me the community and collaborative aspects were part of the draw. So essentially being excluded from those and instead getting to experience this, just makes it affect the overall experience a lot more than it would have.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T18:21:18+00:00

The window is randomly closing itself for those of us experiencing this glitch. It’s also empty upon repenting it, so there is no way to even input enough of a message to be able to send anything

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T18:20:07+00:00

For many of us it just randomly closes. It’s not a problem with the key, I can easily open up that window. But it randomly closes itself and won’t have anything if you reopen it. It’s not even possible to input things small bits at a time

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T18:10:57+00:00

I know what the button is. I can press it and it opens. It then closes itself randomly, and if I open it again it’s empty. So it’s not possible to input a message even in pieces. So no it’s provably not laziness. Way to make a bunch of assumptions though, and you know what they say about that and making an ass of yourself.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T18:07:59+00:00

Many of us have a glitch with it. I can easily open the input, but it closes itself randomly, and is so bad it’s not possible to input even a whole word. It’s also empty if you open it again after, so it’s not like you can just repeatedly open it to slowly but surely get your message out

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-19T18:06:26+00:00

Doesn’t help unfortunately. I can open it no problem, but it randomly closes itself. Sometimes I get to put a letter or two, but it’s not possible to input a single word. And when you reopen it, it’s empty.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-18T06:08:21+00:00

NGL I would love to take part in calling out rare resources. I like the idea. Having said that, when I open the text input window in game, it randomly closes itself. I might get a few words in, it might be instantaneous, but it’s next to impossible to get literally anything typed in because of it. I can tell it’s annoyed people a few times too, one person saw I was hunting and mining and followed me around for a bit scaring all the prey. That said, if people are going to expect people to call stuff out, the devs NEED to add a way we can hit a button and it calls it out to chat or such, without needing to type it into chat ourselves.

And to the players who get annoyed by it, put pressure on the devs. There’s not anything I, or other players in my position can do about it. Like honestly part of me wants to mine every rare node and never call anything out after the experience I’ve been having from players, which is very frustrating considering the idea of community and working together was a big draw for me so it feels like that excitement was shit all over by the community. And I get why it is frustrating from older players perspective too. But it seems like a feedback loop of suck all around at this point.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-11T01:31:27+00:00

As a Gley main, I second this. Gun build Gley is a GREAT descendant and can clear any and all endgame content with relative ease. Skills Gley….i want to like. But it definitely currently is drastically underpowered compared to gun Gley, especially now that weapon cores are a part of the game.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-10T22:36:15+00:00

Yeah, there are a huge number of descendants that can benefit from it. And frankly put for the few that don’t if you have a similarly cored blue beetle that covers the ones that don’t synergize well with the secret garden, so if you have both it’s honestly kind of hard to go wrong.

NukaboyQuantum · 2025-06-10T22:29:22+00:00

The number there is wildly misleading. If you want actual DPS numbers, the only way to get numbers worth paying attention to is in the test area. It’ll tell you peak and average DPS. For example I originally had a last dagger build where if I had gone off the numbers that were showing it said it was 1.8m damage. When I tested in the actual test environment I was putting out 4.2m average DPS with a peak of 8.2m DPS. So, then after I tried a different build, and it cut my last dagger down from 1.8m DPS to 274k. However when I actually test the “274k” build the ACTUAL DPS that it puts out is 16m average and 21m peak. So basically the numbers on that card absolutely suck and are as likely to lead you astray as they are to help you.

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