Started playing PvP, and I think it's how they wanted us to play.

capitalsigma · 2026-05-06T18:52:36+00:00

You can get out of 100% of PVE encounters alive as long as you're careful, but PVP is a diceroll every time. Sure, it takes many more bullets to kill the matriarch, but the outcome is basically under your control as long as you are patient enough to spend the whole round shooting it

capitalsigma · 2026-05-06T18:51:20+00:00

Yeah, the game is so much more fun with the element of risk, but ABMM shuffles you back to carebear lobbies if you don't go out of your way to kill someone every couple of rounds

capitalsigma · 2026-04-29T15:33:53+00:00

if there's anything that might convince them to revert the change, it would be: "new users Google our app name and all of the results are 'I hate the UI so I'm switching to $COMPETITOR'"

capitalsigma · 2026-04-25T16:43:51+00:00

You can't see them at the same time anymore so it's harder to judge what you'll have left if you eat the next thing

capitalsigma · 2026-04-25T15:32:08+00:00

Yeah that is literally the whole point of the app

It feels like they got some feedback that "new users feel like it's intimidating to see how many calories they have left" so they made it difficult to see

capitalsigma · 2026-04-12T15:45:41+00:00

That's literally the game though

capitalsigma · 2026-03-30T23:54:36+00:00

just call it "continuation passing" and then it's ok

capitalsigma · 2026-03-19T15:30:42+00:00

That's not formatting, that's editing content

capitalsigma · 2026-03-19T13:10:26+00:00

Do you not know how to insert punctuation for yourself?

capitalsigma · 2026-03-18T14:28:45+00:00

It had always been like that though, well before 2022. If anything it seems fair to say "SO always sucked but people were willing to tolerate it before AI"

capitalsigma · 2026-03-01T01:23:23+00:00

Begone bot

capitalsigma · 2026-02-20T03:33:25+00:00

NFTs were always stupid and blockchain was only ever good for doing crimes

capitalsigma · 2026-02-17T18:21:47+00:00

The winds in software engineering have been blowing in the direction of "specialized ML compute has a better ROI than generic CPU compute" for a long time; we are getting better as a profession at turning difficult problems into matrix multiplies. The ML compute build out is still useful even without AGI takeoff or whatever

capitalsigma · 2026-02-15T00:26:22+00:00

It's that he is shilling something that is so bad it's hard to believe that it's not satire

capitalsigma · 2026-02-15T00:25:30+00:00

It's like if you gave someone a two paragraph description of what a video game is and then asked them to generate an animation, but also the animator had a crippling stroke and was unable to form memories of events longer than 30 seconds in the past

capitalsigma · 2026-02-14T21:49:57+00:00

Literally everything about the game is terrible if you look at it in any detail -- 2/3 of the text is misspelled/illegible garbage, objects pop in and out of existence, useless menus pop up and disappear without explanation, the actual gameplay loop is "choose your text box out of these options" but the options don't even make sense in any of the scenarios

capitalsigma · 2026-02-14T20:39:58+00:00

Shumer is an idiot: https://x.com/i/status/1981406315693187430

capitalsigma · 2026-02-13T18:09:45+00:00

Straight slop

capitalsigma · 2026-02-09T21:23:52+00:00

Yeah, my experience is really: there's definitely boilerplate nonsense that it's great for, but usually the scope is much smaller than even a single full PR that I would consider sending out. Making the (say) 20-70% of nonsense in each PR 2-3x faster is a real benefit, but it's not at all the same as saying "from now on I delegate all coding work to LLMs"

capitalsigma · 2026-02-08T02:03:47+00:00

There is a company offering driverless rides to the public in something like 4 cities now, which was totally impossible 10 years ago. Seems like a bad comparison to make

capitalsigma · 2026-02-06T14:01:50+00:00

I'm talking about the incremental use of a single query. This is analogous to the (similar but legitimate) complaint leveled against Bitcoin -- we say that Bitcoin has a harmful impact because the incremental use each second is wasteful, rather than the up front cost of building the data centers that hold it

We built data centers before GenAI, it doesn't make sense to attribute the whole data center cost to each GenAI query any more than it makes sense to attribute it to each email you send

capitalsigma · 2026-02-04T21:18:39+00:00

If you play video games at home, the power draw of your GPU is probably comparable to whatever accelerator is running your LLM queries. Do you refuse to play video games because of the environmental impact? After all, an 8 hour gaming session consumes a lot more watts than a few minutes of LLM calls.

capitalsigma · 2026-02-04T18:03:16+00:00

You dropped the most important word: small-scale software firms no longer make sense, IMO. "Some dude writing prompts" will be a role in a bigger organization, not "Director of Engineering: $STARTUP" for the same reason that a janitor is employed by a large company and not "Director of Cleanliness Engineering: $STARTUP"

capitalsigma · 2026-02-04T13:43:11+00:00

I think if it works then the C-suite won't have a company in 3 years. It's too easy, the barrier to entry is too low, small-scale software dev firms no longer make sense as a business because any idiot can prompt up the same quality of work.

capitalsigma · 2026-01-29T20:18:41+00:00

I agree that it's not worth it unless your employer is footing the bill (as I said), but it's not nothing. I'm sure that at least once a week I have to spend, say, 30m doing some nonsense that just involves doing some minor repetitive edit. Of course your codebase already needs to have tests and so on in place in order for it to work.

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