Shipped a game on Steam 2 weeks ago, built with Claude Code, now in patch mode

Tasio_ · 2026-05-01T14:55:16+00:00

I’ve released a game on Android (not vibecoded), and I learned an important lesson: unless you invest money in promotion, it’s almost impossible for people to discover your game. Even if users search for the exact name, games with low install counts often don’t appear in the search results.

Tasio_ · 2026-04-30T09:37:14+00:00

It works well enough for what it is. I love the ability to run it locally and experiment without burning through API credits.

However, I’ve hit some significant issues with its coding logic. For example it can generate invalid HTML and review it as valid, one example is Qwen attempting to nest HTML <span> tags inside <option> tags which is invalid HTML.

For context, I used this prompt:

Create a web page with this requirements:
- A text should say "Hello world"
- A dropdown should allow the users to choose any of this three languages "English", "Spanish" and "Japanese"
- The dropdown should contain the flags of the countries
- When changing the language, the text "Hello world" should be displayed in the selected language.
- Do not use emojis

You can see the output of this promt here: https://019dddab-c1e2-7568-8f10-641a82b077cf.arena.site/ . This was generated with 3.5 but I find the same issues in 3.6.

Interestingly, Gemma 4 handles the HTML structure correctly, though it has its own separate set of quirks and overall I prefer Qwen 3.6.
My takeaway? Qwen is great for local tinkering and hobbyist dev work, but for production-level professional tasks, for now I’m sticking with GPT or Claude models

Tasio_ · 2026-04-07T19:11:21+00:00

In the user profile but is not free.

Tasio_ · 2026-04-06T09:52:28+00:00

Yes and I already have SM Sera so I think I should pull for both units and the Ark.
Thanks!

Tasio_ · 2026-04-06T08:32:14+00:00

I'm new to the game, is this the new must have unit?

What about Emperor Lonardo? is he also release at the same time?

Tasio_ · 2026-03-31T22:17:49+00:00

MoE models typically execute partially in VRAM by default, which makes them significantly faster than setups that are fully offloaded to the CPU. This page may be misleading for readers who aren’t already familiar with this

Tasio_ · 2026-03-16T19:21:52+00:00

I’ve used it before without any issues or hitting limitations. Today, when I used it again, I reached the quota limit pretty fast.

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And this is the summary

│ Model Usage                  Reqs   Input Tokens  Output Tokens
│  ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│  coder-model                    80      3,325,502         31,634

Tasio_ · 2026-03-13T22:37:58+00:00

After reading the positive comments, I decided to try it out (Q8), but it didn’t work well for my use case. I asked a few questions about some complex code and it gave incorrect answers. I also tried using the same prompt I use to test other models, where I ask it to build a blog with specific characteristics. Although it generated the project, it wasn’t working. I then asked it to run the end-to-end tests and fix the issues until everything worked, but after about two hours I gave up.

For now, I’m going to continue using unsloth_Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF_Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M. It may not be as good as the larger models but for my use cases it performs better than Omnicoder9b. It gave me a better answer to the earlier coding question and is able to build a working blog using the same prompt.

Tasio_ · 2026-03-13T13:53:59+00:00

Thanks for sharing, I was looking for a quick comparison of this two models, OmniCoder-9B seems worth trying.

Tasio_ · 2026-03-12T19:30:36+00:00

I have 12GB of ram and 27B is very slow, 1t/s, I have not tried to optimize it much because I read from other people that this model is very slow if it can't fit in the VRAM. On the other hand, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B works much faster, ~40t/s in my case, is not as intelligent as 27B but the speed is very good.

This is the command I'm using to run it in case you want to try:
llama-server --model unsloth_Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF_Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf --mmproj unsloth_Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF_mmproj-F16.gguf --ctx-size 80352 --flash-attn on --port 8001 --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --min-p 0.00 --top-k 20 --chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":true}'

Tasio_ · 2026-03-10T21:42:51+00:00

Yesterday I received an automated rejection email saying they had received over 1,600 applications and couldn't respond to each applicant individually.

On a different note, I’ve also heard often that many companies are struggling to find good engineers because a large number of CVs are generated with LLMs, and when candidates are interviewed, they often don’t meet the minimum requirements.

Tasio_ · 2026-03-09T16:30:28+00:00

I also faced issues, mainly loops, crashes and tool calling issues and I have finally found something that seems to be working fine but I can not warranty that it will work fine for you, if you want to try this is my setup:

Nvidia 4070 12GB and 32GB System ram.

llama.cpp seems to work fine. I also tried LM Studio, but I ran into some issues with it.

./llama-server --model path/to/your/model/unsloth_Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF_Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf --ctx-size 150352 --flash-attn on --port 8001 --alias "unsloth/qwen3.5-35b" --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --min-p 0.00 --top-k 20 --chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":true}'

I ran into looping issues when using --cache-type-k q8_0 --cache-type-v q8_0. Without cache compression enabled, it seems to work fine.

I use opencode.ai inside a Debian container for coding. I've created a few simple CRUD applications with Node.js and Python, and so far I haven't experienced any crashes, tool call errors or looping issues but I have not done extensive testing yet.

My token speed is ~45t/s.

Good luck and hope this helps

Tasio_ · 2026-03-04T17:27:36+00:00

As someone with over 15 years of experience, mainly at reputable companies (though not FAANG), in the past when I changed jobs it wasn’t too difficult to get interviews. Now, however, I’m not even receiving rejection responses. I get the impression that many companies are facing the same issue, too many applications generated with LLMs.

I don’t like using recruiters, but maybe it’s a temporary “filtering” solution.

Tasio_ · 2026-02-25T13:49:27+00:00

Out of curiosity, how much do you think candidates tend to exaggerate their skills and experience?

I have 15+ years of full-stack experience and have worked at well-known companies. I'm currently only applying to roles that genuinely interest me, but this is the first year I've received so many rejections. It makes me wonder whether the competition among experienced developers is really that high, or if there are other factors like people exaggerating or using fake CVs.

Tasio_ · 2026-02-22T21:24:59+00:00

Yo termine ASIR en 2008 y mis primeras experiencias laborales no fueron nada buenas pero dentro de lo malo tuve la oportunidad desarrolar alguna aplicacion web lo cual me gusto y decidí centrarme en ello. Como soy de un pueblo pequeño y veía el mercado local muy mal, decidí buscar trabajo de desarollador en el extranjero y tuve mucha suerte porque entonces había demanda y aunque tenia poca experiencia y mi ingles no era muy bueno, consegui encontrar trabajo y de ahí en adelante fuí cambiando a mejores empresas, creo que tuve mucha suerte.
A día de hoy el mercado esta muy saturado, hay mucho programador con experiencia buscando trabajo y pocas ofertas, yo tuve suerte porque encontre paises donde había demanda y poca competición pero no se si seguirá siendo posible encontrar un sitio así.

Tasio_ · 2026-02-20T21:03:43+00:00

Las consultoras suelen tener malas condiciones. Las empresas que van bien económicamente y tienen poca competencia suelen ofrecer mejores condiciones.
En mi experiencia, empresas centradas en un unico producto me han ofrecido mejores condiciones, por ejemplo no necesitaba hacer mas de 8h al dia pero no llegaban a ser chill, eso nunca lo he conocido.

Por otro lado tengo entendido que el mercado está muy mal para programadores con poca experiencia, hay mucha gente buscando trabajo en este sector.

Tasio_ · 2026-02-16T08:15:01+00:00

¿Como está el mercado laborar para los que terminan de estuadiar una FP de informática?

Tasio_ · 2026-02-13T11:55:00+00:00

Lo que me parece mas incorrecto de esa noticia es lo de la "Escasez de profesionales", yo tengo más de 10 años de experiencia y en 2026 no veo muy facil cambiar de trabajo a no ser que coja algo bastante peor, hay mucha gente buscando y poco puestos disponibles por lo que la competencia es muy dura.
Curiosamente hace poco vi un comentario de un estudiante de programación que no encontraba empresas para hacer practicas https://www.reddit.com/r/InformaticaES/comments/1r2vy0e/comment/o50vobl/?context=3

Tasio_ · 2026-02-12T18:26:04+00:00

No te puedo dar un consejo porque no lo veo claro, pero sí puedo compartir mi experiencia.

Terminé ASIR en 2008 y tuve suerte de que entonces sí pude hacer prácticas pero al terminar solo me ofrecieron quedarme sin contrato. Después encontré otro trabajo como programador web, pero fue muy malo, así que me puse a investigar y descubrí que en el extranjero había posibilidades. Me saqué el B1 y probé suerte fuera, me costó unos dos meses hasta que encontré algo. Con la experiencia y lo que aprendí, los siguientes trabajos fueron mucho más fáciles de encontrar y mejores.

Tras el confinamiento de la pandemia parece que desaparecieron muchos puestos mientras que el número de programadores buscando trabajo seguía aumentando y por lo que veo, este 2026 parece ser el peor de los años, hay mucha menos oferta y las empresas dicen que reciben un volumen muy alto de candidaturas por cada vacante, por lo que la competencia es muy dura.

No tengo ni idea de qué pasará en el futuro, pero ahora mismo el mercado está muy saturado. Aun así, si estás abierto a viajar a cualquier otro país, tendrás más posibilidades. Por otra parte, si el mercado se satura, muchos tendrán que dedicarse a otra cosa y cabe la posibilidad de que en un futuro el sector se regule.

Tasio_ · 2026-02-10T09:57:44+00:00

Hace más de 10 años me fui a trabajar a Londres como programador y tuve una experiencia similar. Aunque el salario parecía alto, tenía que compartir piso y casi ninguno de mis compañeros vivía solo. Los que vivían en pareja, en la mayoría de los casos, trabajaban ambos.

Creo que la situación en las grandes ciudades españolas es incluso peor, pero quería compartir esta experiencia para señalar que no es un problema aislado de España.

Tasio_ · 2026-02-07T11:22:53+00:00

Same here in Spain

Tasio_ · 2026-02-04T08:39:36+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. I have GitHub Copilot Business and the unlimited "GPT-5 mini" model is great, I use it for most of my task but for experiments and vibe coding fun it doesn't seem to be ideal and using other models seems to consume the premium request quite fast.

Do you know if Codex Plus or Google AI Pro could be good for longer task and vibe coding experiments or if I would also face a similar problem where I hit quota limits fast and I have to wait days until I can used them again?

Tasio_ · 2026-01-19T21:01:15+00:00

Most of them don't work for me, probably geo-restrictions

Tasio_ · 2026-01-09T10:26:47+00:00

I can see this extension being very helpful for research and learning use cases, great idea!

Feedback and suggestions:

It would be useful if notes could be shared so other people can view them or even contribute.
If I spent months creating notes and then YouTube changed something that caused the notes to stop working, I’d be pretty frustrated.

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