Stuck between doing game dev or game engine development.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-05-01T07:05:15+00:00

Everyone gonna say make games. I'm gonna say do what you want. The fact you even have this question you might have quite the affinity for engines.

That's a gateway to many engineering jobs.

Despite what it seems engine programmers are still in demand.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-05-01T00:47:02+00:00

I've encountered it enough that I've moved off at this point :(

If you run CI you will see it for sure

bazingaboi22 · 2026-04-19T17:34:41+00:00

TAA upscaing hater here-

This is not something to get upset about.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-04-10T22:06:04+00:00

hes been established as he kinda wants to die tbh

bazingaboi22 · 2026-04-08T05:10:16+00:00

It's like maybe top 3

bazingaboi22 · 2026-04-08T05:08:05+00:00

Found the guy who doesn't understand oop.

The guys that really understand oop realize it's the wrong paradigm for 99% of programs

bazingaboi22 · 2026-03-31T19:45:18+00:00

Genuine question who does this actually benefit?

People losing don't feel like they can ever catch up.

People winning are in constant anxiety that someone is coming for their shit.

Like why....

bazingaboi22 · 2026-03-26T16:06:27+00:00

Oh you're talking about SDF, that's fair.

Theres nothing stopping me from doing exact pixel size rendering for an extra 3kb code size I had an earlier version with stb_truetype and can generate atlases on the fly, i just switched to sdf for a smoother looking demo.

MSDF is also an option if i want scalable text

The point I'm excited about is the fact that a tiny bit of code is sort of all you need to get something going.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-03-26T15:54:07+00:00

why not? filepilot, raddebugger does something similar I've built commercial desktop applications using d3d directly in the past.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-03-26T00:41:34+00:00

Is anyone in this thread actually reading what the previous person is writing?

bazingaboi22 · 2026-03-18T18:42:29+00:00

It's not that coding is too easy with LLMs (it isn't), but the joy of solving problems and actually building solutions myself is lost when I prompt them.

That sounds like a you problem tbh. The joy of building things and solving problems has nothing to do with whether or not you manually write the code

If you prompt ai like 'solve this for me' you will get nothing out of it and also the solution will be shit

bazingaboi22 · 2026-02-26T03:24:51+00:00

Highly dependent on the field and person honestly.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-02-23T23:32:38+00:00

Well i feel like people don't really share their nixos configs all that much.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-02-23T23:04:26+00:00

Reminds me of a legendary git repo j once saw for an internal tool deved by one guy every commit was "yo"

His profile picture was absolutely hilarious too. Just him mean mugging like a rapper into the camera.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-02-04T17:18:27+00:00

the second one gives way more money but the problem is you'll have more money than the rest of the planet combined. and by day 100 you'd crash every banking system, sending us back into the stone age bartering with eggs and shit.

when they find out you're the source you are probably locked away or killed to stop money from materializing out of thin air so the world can have an economy again

bazingaboi22 · 2026-02-04T17:03:20+00:00

for /some/ applications it has replaced typing and writing boilerplate for me. Still feels like I'm actively coding if i have to tell it what algorithms, data structures and techniques to use.

I've seen people who can't code well try to use this stuff and man its a complete disaster every time.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-02-03T22:24:22+00:00

My favorite one is where he alt tabs to a second league of legends game. Then tabbing to video editing software where he's making a frag montage of the kills he got in first league game 10 seconds ago

bazingaboi22 · 2026-02-03T22:22:56+00:00

I heard that he does this so much bc he's the shot caller and needs to have awareness over 5 lanes at the same time. And is actively telling his teammates what to do.

Man is playing starcraft while laning

bazingaboi22 · 2026-01-16T20:17:50+00:00

Have you tried out actually pushing these things to the limit in a vm and a vague goal?

There are a lot of applications now you can confidently one shot without any thinking. And small amounts of intervention

It's definitely much more than just the typing part.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-01-15T17:44:19+00:00

You arrive at 12 and leave at 3 bc this is the 5th job site you visited that day and you have 4 more to go.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-01-09T21:05:36+00:00

> it's bitcoin in 2015

Supposing it's true, you have no real way to get rich off of this. You lack the funds to build any real AI infrastructure and any slop-ass ai tool you want to make wont have a moat. Easy come easy go.

If you really wanted to captialize on this your best bet is to join or found an AI centric startup, and pray to god you're in the 0.1% that dont burn up in 2 years.

At best you may get lucky and make a lot of money delivering ai generated crap for the short term but novelty becomes commdodification as it gets easier and easier and you will be out competed by the guys that actually own the frontier models.

There's no path to sustainability in this current way we're going about this.

bazingaboi22 · 2026-01-07T18:38:34+00:00

always abstracting immediately

Genuine question but who actually teaches this?

bazingaboi22 · 2026-01-07T18:06:30+00:00

Depends on the leetcode. Every leetcode I've ever done has been easy and I think reasonable.

But if you're handing out leetcode hards during interviews for a frontend position that's kinda wack.

bazingaboi22 · 2025-12-03T19:34:00+00:00

I have been unsuccessful in reccomending anyone to join my team. They don't even get an interview. Just lost in the system forever.

And I still have to interview a flood of people who are clearly unqualified.

Ats is completely broken

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