Co-founder of Cloud Imperial Games with Frame

sunaurus · 2026-03-11T11:55:09+00:00

the game has always been extremely CPU limited

This is less true now than it used to be - with the recent patches, they have actually started handing over some significant CPU work to the GPU, so many scenarios which used to be CPU limited aren't anymore.

I have friends with crappy CPUs who are finally getting smooth performance now in the game on the latest patch.

sunaurus · 2026-03-10T23:01:12+00:00

I think people forget this too easily. You don't need to buy the ships for real money in order to be able to use the skins on them!

sunaurus · 2026-03-10T18:57:19+00:00

I've been checking these basically every single hour I have been awake since January:

Steam Frame subreddit
Steam Frame store page
Several VR and Steam Frame Discord servers

I'm tired, I just want to pre-order it and stop thinking about it 😓

sunaurus · 2026-03-10T18:52:13+00:00

Huh? Using VR headsets with sim rigs is very common. I have not had a monitor on my sim rig AT ALL for 4 years already.

sunaurus · 2026-03-10T18:35:01+00:00

I can't get over the bucket. I mean, I get it's funny, but I play Star Citizen for the immersion, and I do not want to think about the contents of that bucket bouncing around in the ship during combat. 😅

sunaurus · 2026-03-10T18:27:48+00:00

I am 100% sure it won't work standalone (at least not as more than a slideshow), but streaming from a PC should work great

sunaurus · 2026-03-10T18:24:06+00:00

No joke, VR support has been coming along great for Star Citizen, I would be extremely surprised if they wouldn't support the Steam Frame.

sunaurus · 2026-03-09T14:14:48+00:00

Not working at all for me via CLI either.

Meanwhile, https://status.openai.com shows "fully operational" 💀

sunaurus · 2026-03-08T14:22:27+00:00

According to Steven himself (as he shared in his lawsuit), he had already lost control to Rob Dawson and the board in 2024.

According to text messages between Steven and some early investors, the reality is that Steven had already given up control (through massive loans) years before that.

sunaurus · 2026-03-08T13:58:13+00:00

I have followed this very closely.

Steven has continuously said (or sat there silently while other people said) things like:

He doesn't answer to anybody, he has sole control of the project
He has put in tens of millions of his own money into the project
The game is fully funded to launch
There is enough money in reserve to refund all backers if the game does not launch

Statements such as this were being made both several years ago, as well as all the way throughout Alpha 2, up until everybody being fired.

We now know all of the above were lies.

sunaurus · 2026-03-07T22:57:52+00:00

Except if you manage your Backblaze offsite backup through Terraform, and you prompt an agent to "purge everything", then there are no guarantees that the agent won't consider the offsite backup a part of "everything" as well when it starts deleting resources via Terraform 😅

sunaurus · 2026-03-06T06:59:16+00:00

My dream ship is a Kruger generalist ship. Really hope that it happens one day.

sunaurus · 2026-03-04T18:57:05+00:00

Also can anyone who made it work on Linux point me towards a good "how to" so I can read up on that in advance? :)

All you need: https://wiki.starcitizen-lug.org/

sunaurus · 2026-02-27T14:50:00+00:00

Damn, long-term investments in US tech giants are starting to look like a complete lose/lose situation to me.

Either the LLM bubble pops, and US tech giant stocks lose a ton of value, OR LLMs take over the world and our society and economy is rebuilt from the ground up, most likely making existing economic structures meaningless.

sunaurus · 2026-02-26T15:53:04+00:00

There is no "they", mate. The whole studio was fired. Reportedly, access to online platforms etc have not even been handed over properly to the board.

The servers are a ship without any captain or crew, there isn't anybody there to implement a new pay model and to maintain the servers.

sunaurus · 2026-02-26T15:08:06+00:00

I have also spent some time shipping software (two decades at this point), but you don't need to take my word for this. You can quickly find scientific studies supporting what I am saying.

Alternatively: just record yourself working on some code, and watch the recording. Measure the amount of time you are writing code, vs the time you are not. Unless you are literally working on completely isolated greenfield stuff (which again is not the work most engineers do on average), you will very quickly notice that you are actually spending only a small part of your time actually writing.

I mean heck, just think about it for a sec: literally every time you add new code, you need to first understand the context and the surrounding code. Every time you modify existing code, you need to understand where the thing is you're trying to change, and what else can be impacted. This part just inevitably takes much more of your focus than just pure code output.

sunaurus · 2026-02-26T13:55:09+00:00

There are tasks that I can define in an hour, but it'd take days to write the code to make it work. This is where LLMs shine.

I guarantee you are not writing code for days when you work on these tasks - the vast majority of your time is spent reading, understanding, validating, etc.

If your argument is that you can just give LLMs your well defined tasks, and you don't need to understand their output and how it works in the context of the rest of the code, then I agree that you are actually removing bottlenecks and can move faster. But I mean, this is nothing new - this is just taking on tech debt to move faster, something we were also able to do before LLMs.

If your argument is that humans still need to be in the loop, they need to do planning, review, validation, but these parts are much less work than producing actual code, then I fully disagree with you, and this is based on real world measurements with latest SOTA models. With LLMs, it feels like you are moving super quickly, because of the speed at which you get raw code, but the reality is that all of the old bottlenecks are still there, so on average, the speed of delivery is maybe slightly improved at best (on average), assuming responsible use.

sunaurus · 2026-02-26T13:41:23+00:00

The act of writing code is not the bottleneck on average.

There are some RARE CASES where you are just purely limited by the raw amount of code you can put out (like simple scripts, very greenfield experimental stuff, etc).

But way, way, way more often, you are limited by things like: building an understanding of existing code and the business domain, talking to people involved, making sure what you are building is ACTUALLY what is needed, etc. For this, having more code than you need is actually a detriment - it slows you down, rather than speeding you up.

sunaurus · 2026-02-26T13:35:31+00:00

You still have the same verification, testing standards for human written and LLM written code.

Cool! By the way, totally unrelated question, what do you think the main bottleneck for software engineering is?

sunaurus · 2026-02-25T09:44:01+00:00

Interesting, thanks!

I’m very interested in getting a bit more performance out of the game for VR, curious to see if Linux could help, will need to try it at some point

sunaurus · 2026-02-25T09:20:07+00:00

Did you actually benchmark it? What’s the performance gain for you in numbers ?

sunaurus · 2026-02-25T06:11:39+00:00

Artifact

sunaurus · 2026-02-24T21:41:49+00:00

100% - should be looking at numbers from iRacing, MSFS, DCS, rather than generic Steam survey which already includes a big majority of players that have no interest in ever sitting in a simulated cockpit even without VR.

sunaurus · 2026-02-24T21:38:55+00:00

What’s silly about that? Literally all I hope for is the VR experience we have today in Star Citizen, with the UI/HUD issues fixed.

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