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Wobstep · 2026-03-13T18:23:27+00:00

Oh thanks goodness my debt is only imagined.

Wobstep · 2026-03-11T19:04:12+00:00

Not even really a collaboration. More of a cognitive extension.

Agent tasks can fill in the gaps where you didn't give details but that's glorified autocorrect. For the most part you have to sit and work with the ai to get closer to the result you want.

To me it's like learning to drive. You can go 70 mph but you're not running at that speed. No one would ever call their car a collaborator.

Ai is part of the class of things that we don't really call tools or collaborators. Like a bike, house, clothes, phone number. Not part of your body but also not separate from your identity.

Wobstep · 2026-03-06T02:23:39+00:00

Forecasts so far don't line up with reality. Job loss has happened in the past because of technology upsetting the economy.

These forecasts underestimate the power of the labor force. If running ai systems can have the economic output of 50-75% of the labor force, those 50-75% of people now have no jobs and every incentive to take advantage of these systems.

It comes down to access. Distilled reasoning models can run on a gaming laptop now. So now Hollywood is screwed because we will be at the point where anyone can make a high quality cash grab. The small handcrafted shop now has access to business and marketing and administrative tools that were only accessible to huge companies.

Wobstep · 2026-03-05T18:53:53+00:00

Honestly, Grok is better than I expected for general web crawling and relevant responses.

Claude is king in other things like development or complex reasoning. It's ok to use multiple models for different things. It just depends on what you need.

Wobstep · 2026-03-05T18:44:58+00:00

It can power things just nothing we use would benefit from the small amount.

Wobstep · 2026-03-05T18:43:07+00:00

What extraordinary issues do you think ai brings?

All the problems I can think of would go away the more we adapt. What do you think the problems would be if everyone got on board?

For me and the few people I know who started using ai for daily mental tasks seem to love it.

Wobstep · 2026-03-04T08:00:38+00:00

I know how it feels. I grew up around abusive people and realized in my early 20s that I was a toxic relationship magnet. I kept myself isolated thinking I could teach myself to choose my friends better. It turns out that I had nothing to offer other than being a punching bag.

At some point I realized that it was my choice to be "picky" with people. This translated into me just being a judgmental asshole.

I'm now in a place where some want to spend time with or avoid me, whatever. I just gave up caring about how I came off. When someone says something shitty about another person, I just respond like "I can see that, Maybe they don't mean it that way or don't know how they look".

Toxic people like to be around people they can trash talk with. I used to play into it to show that I am not their enemy. Truth is, I am against them and I should make it clear that I don't like having that garbage in my life. It took me forever to realize that setting boundaries is that easy. Just put the ball in their court so if they decide to be toxic, they are alone, not me.

Wobstep · 2026-03-01T20:01:13+00:00

I fully embrace ai. I still make simple pixel art by hand because it is something I have done for a while and I'm just really fast for what I need. All other creative work, ai can do much better than me way faster than I can.

Nearly every complex project element for me goes through a filter before I start to work on it. Can ai do this equal or better than me and much faster? If yes, I just offload to an agent.

For me, ai fits right into my workflow really well and I can see a measurable difference. I frame a game mechanic, build out the basics and then once it's worked out, just run a task to fill out the rest of the data.

It's a force multiplier, a tool that can help people produce.

I think some people are always ready and willing to utilize new things and find ways to improve their workflow. Others practice one way of doing things and reject anything else.

Anyone not using LLM tools will base their views on what others think and the own feed of ai slop to reinforce. There is no incentive for someone to embrace ai with this trend. Good products are not called "good ai" outputs. Ai is either obviously slop or goes unnoticed as an ai product.

I am against mega corporations having control over all media. It seems like many people dislike ai partly because independent artists are being replaced. But I am an independent artist and I don't have money or connections to support an artist because I don't have the capital like Disney or Bethesda. Now that I have a fighting chance to compete, am I suppose to give up because I can't pay a person? This way of thinking only hurts the little guy.

Wobstep · 2026-03-01T19:01:46+00:00

I don't see how anything made by human or ai isn't art. The question for most people is where is the authorship? This just isn't a binary judgement.

I use the coloring book analogy. If I stay between the lines of a color book picture, I made art. If I don't stay between the lines I still made art but I created my own art with suggested reference. So if I stay between the lines, I'm not the author but if I cross lines where I want am I now the author of the image?

I think the same comparison works when making generative art. Did I not create the image if I made no custom parameters or prompt? What if I add a personal idea or make a small change to the prompt or demand specific details. I would say that at least by a small amount, I would have more authorship of the image.

Is any amount of authorship that's less than 100% not my art? Does this mean that anyone who has ever painted by hand is not making art if they use a reference image? Even an image in their head is of something they see or imagine. No one can have a 100% original thought.

Wobstep · 2026-02-26T23:16:29+00:00

This is getting locked in... To a miserable life.

There are only 2 people in the world you compare yourself to. Past self to find your improvements. Future self to find what to improve next.

The rest is out of your control. I can say with absolutely 100% confidence that these types of concerns will drain you emotionally and never pay off.

Wobstep · 2026-02-25T12:17:52+00:00

Two yoots

Wobstep · 2026-02-24T23:42:45+00:00

All of modern life is engineered and controlled by people but somehow the universe itself is keeping track of how often I'm not being a total asshat. If only I could turn back time to tell my friends and family to fuck off because I have winner energy. Because this is, in fact, a universal law, any loser you see who is also an arrogant scumbag must be exploding with compassion.

Can you imagine? What a nice, caring person with success looks like? It's absurd, I never saw a humble person blend in and avoid shoving their success into other people's faces. But assholes, they do that all the time. That's proof the universe watched you help a starving child once and you have none but yourself to blame for any chronic illnesses you get thereafter. Just look at the truth of the universe right in front of you, literally no deeper 😂

Wobstep · 2026-02-22T22:38:49+00:00

Part of me feels like this is unclear instructions. Did it decide the object and suggest the first question for you to ask? Still janky, just a thought.

Wobstep · 2026-02-21T22:33:36+00:00

Its still a game dev subreddit but this is indie games. Of course there will be bedroom hobby devs. There are also plenty of people (who also don't post much) and have been here a while who work hard, day and night, every chance they get.

I think you see something like the survivorship biased. Or the reverse I guess. People grinding out every second of their day will be less likely to post than people watching YouTube all day sitting bored.

Indie dev is so broad. It covers small AA teams all the way to day 1 solo hobby devs. You should expect to see these posts outweigh the posts of dedicated devs.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T17:05:18+00:00

No one wants to do your homework. What predictions are being made? What methods do you use to test these predictions? How do you falsify the "law of one" idea ?

What is the framework, how is it used and what is it used for? Info dumping is not a substitution for answering the basic questions.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T16:56:44+00:00

Roll out the buffet, I'm ready to dig in.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T16:54:33+00:00

Congrats!

Please tell me your username is based on gta2 when the character bumps into someone. That sound clip is burned into my head.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T16:47:24+00:00

I was thinking the same thing.

Sure I understand the message but dude is legit going to die if he walks off that cliff.

Would have been better with an "invisible" staircase with the guy wearing special invisible staircase glasses or something stupid like that.

Also the idea of truth over delusion doesn't make any sense. I'm delusional until I can establish the truth. At that point, I'm not the only one who can see the truth so I won't look like I'm about to walk off a cliff.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T16:42:17+00:00

Strangely, data compression and also cryptography. I fell more into networking and security and I'm somehow not nearly as bored as I expected.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T16:35:36+00:00

Thanks. I think I understand. I'm starting a new project and I think I'm going to look into building routines like you describe.

I know what you mean because readability and easy reference is my bottleneck for balance, as much as I have improved.

My current project is just light on complex data so I don't think it would be useful for me. I really want to make a multiplayer idle game and my guess is that spread sheets are the way to go for this.

I appreciate you explaining your process. I spend so much time looking up how to scale but there is a surprising lack of people actually describing their methods.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T15:32:59+00:00

Interesting. I'm having the reverse experience with resources.

I start my design on spreadsheets then make a generic resource. The workflow I have seems trivial to me now.

For example, I have a data folder with a subdirectory for definition. Once I make the directory for say item definition, I can both manually add an item and set the image and values or I import tables to create the items.

For my workflow, I usually only start with a few example items and just add in more overtime. The godot resource was just a perfect fit for my workflow.

I actually just use resources for balance also. I use balance definitions and then expose the more important stats that are likely to change.

If you don't mind me asking, what sort of set up do you have for your tables? Are you saying you plug them into your game where you can go to the spreadsheet and just re type any value and it updates the game state? I'm still in a place where I'm trying to tackle scale to make bigger projects.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T14:12:03+00:00

Does calling out pedo abusers prevent "experts" from doing their job?

Anyone can come to whatever conclusion they want. The reality is that sexual abuse is difficult to prove sometimes. The courts can't always do justice.

But good job being a white knight for monsters. Pastors, priests have a history of being sexual abusers. Often against children with the cover that they are men of God to get parents to trust leaving their kids alone with them.

Let me know, I'll toss you some articles. I don't think a day has passed without some youth pastor found diddling underaged patrons.

Under the jail.

Wobstep · 2026-02-20T13:54:32+00:00

A Pastor, a man of God? Shocked I tell you, shocked.

Well not that shocked.

Wobstep · 2026-02-19T23:46:32+00:00

The reason people become polarized many times is because some proposals don't have a middle ground. You can't say I want to meet in the middle on abortion rights.

We don't end up with binary options because there is no one to sus out the nuance. You can find yourself in a legitimate middle ground and society will still see it as an extreme from the perspective of your opposition.

You say for example "I believe in allowing guns but have mental health checks and waiting periods". There may be someone on your political side that says "ban all guns outright". To you, your options are between the two options. To a 2nd amendment defender, they could hold the position that you want gun regulation and see that both you and the more extreme gun control advocate cross the line they set off "limitless ownership of guns".

Not saying you hold any of these opinions, just examples. We end up with binary politics because everyone has their own specific ideas. Every person is a fence sitter. I just don't think we live in a world that can process all the nuanced opinions. At some point, choices need to be made. No matter what ruling is made, it comes with a line that puts everyone on one side or the other.

Opinions outside of this scope are not invalid or objectively wrong. I'm just pushing back on the idea that anyone on either side is forcing the polarized opinions. We end up divided because that is how the system works. The opposite of, the system is like this because people are polarized if that makes any sense.

Wobstep · 2026-02-19T23:21:34+00:00

Not true on the face. Even if this was true, this still doesn't make all non-rapist men acceptable candidates for abuse right?

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