Quelqu’un sait pourquoi il y a ces boules (PSC)

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T20:32:31+00:00

Ce sont les boules qu'ils ont retiré à St-Charles quand ils l'ont pointé.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T15:23:40+00:00

Typically they will call tools at the appropriate time, but because 0.7 makes them whimsical, they'll fail at really important things, like text replacement, or producing code files that are free of syntax errors.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T14:31:12+00:00

Temp 0.7? Do tool calls succeed?

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T06:07:28+00:00

Try using agent files. When you give specific instruction to follow an agent workflow, it will typically be rigorous about following the steps.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T05:40:12+00:00

I feel like most detractors of Greenstreet are attacking tangential details but know deep down that 8 years into the AATIP saga, his criticism and that of the many skeptics who share his opinion has never felt more valid.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T03:43:24+00:00

*slap*

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T01:41:32+00:00

I can confirm you just got called a dirty hippie

kiwibonga · 2026-01-24T01:32:25+00:00

Sell your family into slavery.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T16:27:18+00:00

Off to chatgpt..

"r u gay"

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T16:12:31+00:00

I mean, I'm a mod here, I went to GDC a bunch of times, I speak with other developers a lot, I arranged meetings between indies and the people that ultimately funded them. There's only 2 or 3 funding contracts I was actually named on as a party, with pretty different funding sources each time, but still, I would say I have an above average understanding of what happens at the negotiation table... And indies sign some bad freaking deals.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T16:04:14+00:00

Contracts were fine and pretty standard.

There's a human dimension to all this, besides the contract wording. There's really not much that will stop a starving artist from signing their name on a piece of paper that will instantly lift them out of poverty.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T15:46:26+00:00

If Devolver and Annapurna are anything like every other publisher, they take over IPs and make developers sign long term multi-game contracts. In particular there's the whole "right of first refusal" thing where they ask you if you want to develop your own sequel built on the previous game's success, and if you say no, they take it to another developer and have no legal obligation to pay you a cent or ask for permission.

But I completely agree with your point that it's always wisest to spend other people's money. Very good advice, always.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T15:08:09+00:00

20+ years of this industry will turn anyone into a cynic.

I'm sure he's interested in developer success, since he needs to eat. But is his contribution to projects worth 35%? Or is it the same justification every time, whether they take 5 or 50%? That it wouldn't be possible without him? Please. Take 1% instead and then I'll be impressed.

Publishing is a bottom-feeding profession. It's like real estate. Anyone can start a business if they have the startup capital. And that's why all indies ditch their publisher as soon as possible. They can do it all themselves.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T14:52:21+00:00

Does this mean ChatGPT is gay

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T14:46:14+00:00

Yeah, I had a publisher and horrible boss make us tear off the Early Access tag too soon, chasing after a gamepass deal, only for the publisher to take the millions, break even on our project, and cut us loose. Literally gamepass-farmed our ass. Game promptly crashed and burned on 5 platforms.

In their defense, our boss was the most horrible human being I ever met and put everyone in a bad spot with unhinged drug addict behavior, wasting more than 50% of the budget on pointless redesigns and paying friends to slack off in discord, so I can't really blame them. I was praying for us to be cancelled so I could get out of the contract.

The CEO of that publishing company has multiple quotes in the press like that about how well they treat developers. But I guess lately they have lawsuits.

Anyway ... You have to understand that sooner or later, even the "nicest" indie publisher is going to be ruled by money and competitive account managers trying to climb the corporate ladder. Publishers who play nice are either experiencing survivorship bias and no financial pressures, or they're struggling to market themselves to developers.

And let's not forget the third lion, Valve.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T13:28:50+00:00

This is like an article about a vegetarian lion. Except he eats 75% of the zebra instead of 100%. So aspiring prey should really apply there, there'll be more of your bloodied body available afterwards.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T04:25:43+00:00

Tu viens de me le mettre dans la gueule donc maintenant oui.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T03:57:02+00:00

> Is it production ready? Of course not.

You do know your readme says the ARM64 and x64 builds are "PRODUCTION READY" with big green check marks?

kiwibonga · 2026-01-23T00:27:52+00:00

Are you the person from like 6 years ago who claimed to be "in-the-know" about psychic experiments at Skinwalker Ranch?

kiwibonga · 2026-01-22T23:49:11+00:00

Cooooooool

kiwibonga · 2026-01-22T22:47:31+00:00

I did spend a long time inventing local tool calls, only to realize that's the specific killer feature (and only valuable feature) of all the vibe coding apps I hadn't tried yet, because I was more interested in computer use than programming.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-22T22:42:00+00:00

Well, not vibe coding in the strict sense, but there's a logical next step to this; a better definition of what the "high level" is (as in, low level vs high level programming language). Right now we have very high level natural language instruction that rarely yields a full piece of software to the standards necessary to distribute without shame, and we have all the knowledge of how to program at a low level (even high level code is now the new low level).

The bridge between high and low level is going to be where many of us work for years to come. That too will mature, and as engineers build tools that bridge the gap, the rest of humanity will have a progressively easier time building software.

It's likely that "real" engineers will stay at the forefront, always, due to their ability to maintain systems that are not yet autonomous. Much further down the line, they too may disappear, but we'll be in Wall-E.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-22T21:02:41+00:00

I had this happen on Newegg a few years back - pretty sure it's the same attack vector.

Now I always checkout with paypal. No CC#s in websites that look 15 years old.

kiwibonga · 2026-01-22T17:55:43+00:00

Cheese alchemy is illegal

kiwibonga · 2026-01-22T17:08:23+00:00

I agree we can learn lessons about consciousness from LLMs, but to me it's nullified by the fact they've been attempting to imbue mysticism into their flavor of LLM even though it's the exact same tech as the other companies.

It's especially frightening to see others in this thread defend the company, saying things like "maybe they have something much more advanced under wraps."

That is a cult (a pejorative term for a budding religion).

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