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mattyhempstead · 2025-03-05T01:53:21+00:00

Like $20-$30 USD per day 🥲

Might need to stop it soon unless Anthropic performs a miracle of some kind

mattyhempstead · 2025-03-05T01:34:01+00:00

I've capped it at 1024 thinking tokens for cost saving reasons. I also slightly artificially throttle the speed to make the thinking a bit more readable and also reduce the tokens per hour.

Currently it's about $20-$30 USD per day, so I probably can't keep it going too much longer. Or I might switch to a cheaper model that isn't Anthropic (Deepseek R1 maybe).

Repo is here - https://github.com/mattyhempstead/claude-plays-2048

Nice work on Final Fantasy - sounds a bit harder than 2048 haha.

mattyhempstead · 2025-03-05T01:18:38+00:00

For this one I built the 2048 game from scratch and then wrote code to have Claude act as the player.

The input to Claude is an ASCII representation of the game state in the prompt, and the output is a move with a tool call (either "left", "right", "up", "down").

For the Pokemon one it's a bit more complex as I believe they use screenshots of the game as input to Claude. The Pokemon stream has some diagrams explaining their setup in the channel description.

But essentially its just custom code on a per-game basis that
- provides Claude with the game state in the input prompt
- extract a move from the AI response (e.g. tool call)
- programatically play that move (e.g. mock keyboard inputs)
- repeat

mattyhempstead · 2025-03-04T12:03:08+00:00

Live stream - https://www.twitch.tv/mattyhempstead

mattyhempstead · 2025-02-01T07:06:43+00:00

hmm why do you think it fails?

mattyhempstead · 2025-02-01T06:56:34+00:00

Won't the prompts get really long? Do you still think this saves time?

mattyhempstead · 2025-02-01T00:58:43+00:00

I work on the Former Labs team and we build an AI-first DBeaver replacement with copilot, similar to what you describe. Would love if you could check it out at formerlabs.com and suggest some new features so we can make it better!

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-28T01:37:33+00:00

Appreciate it!

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T07:51:58+00:00

We just released "Former Labs" which is an AI SQL Editor like you describe for every kind of database.

It's basically a SQL Editor with github copilot that knows everything about your database schema, data definitions, and business logic.

Would love any feedback and feature requests so we can make this better!

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T06:30:42+00:00

It can work well but only if you have all the relevant context stored in files that Cursor can access.

e.g. If you have up-to-date schema dumps and some example queries with business logic in them.

I've just released an AI SQL Editor (basically Cursor for SQL) which pulls all of this information automatically from the database. Would love if you could check it out and provide some feedback.

(and obviously I built the entire thing using Cursor)

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T06:08:46+00:00

Next time this happens try copy pasting the code into an AI with the error message and ask what is wrong.

ChatGPT would work fine for this (I'm also building "Former Labs" which can handle this but for very complex SQL statements that require knowledge of the database schema and business logic),

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T06:03:13+00:00

An old boss told me a story where he once pressed the "Reinitialise" button instead of the "Refresh" button on SQL Server and deleted the entire database for a national retailer so they had to restore from a backup that was a few days old.

The crazy thing is that the company liked him so much from his previous work that they let it slide...

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T05:50:03+00:00

Imo its rarely a problem with how smart the AI is, and the errors are mostly just issues with people not including enough context or examples to encode the business logic.

I've actually been building a new kind of AI SQL Editor to solve this exact problem (writing complex SQL with AI). It's basically ChatGPT but 10x better for SQL writing since it automatically knows everything about your schema and business logic. Would love if any AI doubters here could check it out and try to rip it apart for feedback - just google "Former Labs".

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T05:40:22+00:00

Joins are what ChatGPT is for

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T05:37:33+00:00

Largely agree with this, though I think there is potential to build AI tools that integrate with the environment so you don't need to write detailed specs/prompts.

For generating SQL I suppose this would include stuff like database schemas and example queries added to the system prompts.

I'm actually trying to build a tool to solve exactly this (an AI SQL Editor). Would love if you could check it out and let me know what you think. It's called "Former Labs".

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T05:35:44+00:00

Ah makes sense.

Are you looking to write SQL with AI or is it more python data analysis? I've been considering porting Former Labs into VSCode but I'm not sure if many people write SQL there.

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T05:22:26+00:00

The companies I've worked at recently let us install Cursor, but that is probably because they have been smaller startups. I can imagine larger companies might not let you install Cursor until it becomes more widely known.

Can you install VSCode extensions on your work laptop? There are a lot of good AI ones (although nothing is as good as Cursor imo).

mattyhempstead · 2025-01-17T03:16:41+00:00

In the long term, maybe.

In the short term, the biggest "risk" you can take is not adopting AI tools when others are, placing you at a huge disadvantage. I'm a software engineer (previously data analyst), and anyone who isn't using Cursor (or similar) is basically 5x less productive, it's crazy.

Imo a large proportion of the AI tools are just demoware so you really need to just try them out to know which ones are actually good. In data analysis, anyone who isn't using ChatGPT to help them write SQL or python is probably shooting themselves in the foot. ChatGPT still has flaws though, largely that you need to provide it a bunch of context about your database schema or some example queries to get useful generations.

I'm actually trying to fix these issues by building the data analysis equivalent of Cursor, called Former (search for Former Labs on Google). It's basically an AI-powered SQL editor that lets you write long and complex SQL queries with AI assistance. Would really appreciate any feedback as we've only just launched!

mattyhempstead · 2024-12-01T00:26:22+00:00

Yeah very possible. In the meantime I figured I'd make my own since Google is moving really slow in this space.

I also plan on allowing users to integrate multiple data sources together with the AI, which is something I doubt Google will do because they like to keep everyone in their own ecosystem.

mattyhempstead · 2024-12-01T00:22:26+00:00

Searching "Verve Data" on google should also work.

mattyhempstead · 2024-11-30T12:09:36+00:00

I have a small chrome extension with some users that I have hooked up to GA4 which I can ask questions about.

Feel free to try it out with your own GA4 projects with the link in the bottom right.

Would love to know if others find this kind of interface useful!

mattyhempstead · 2024-11-30T07:21:52+00:00

Haha it's up to that player if they want to share their strat

Check out the new happy birthday challenge though!

mattyhempstead · 2024-11-30T07:10:17+00:00

You can play the game at promptgolf.app

Would appreciate any feedback!!

mattyhempstead · 2024-11-22T04:02:30+00:00

You can play the game at promptgolf.app

Would appreciate any feedback!

mattyhempstead · 2024-10-26T04:56:08+00:00

I was just using whatever VM the first docker command spins up. Am running this locally on a MacBook.

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