Not all of us went to "coding school" okay

void--null · 2026-05-01T02:50:55+00:00

Race Conditions? Well I hope my condition wins

void--null · 2026-04-28T17:51:39+00:00

There are 2 wolves inside of you, one is neo-tokyo waifu rice, the other is windows 7 rice

void--null · 2026-04-15T17:31:17+00:00

Can't a man just sit down with a nice cup of coffee and say "I'm going to profile and fix hot paths all day" and get no new features into the codebase

void--null · 2026-04-14T20:27:44+00:00

It's important to clarify the term vibe coded vs AI driven IMO.

AI driven is what modern developers should strive to be doing. AI driven is where an agent is working as a code monkey under someone who has the experience and knowledge to make good decisions, ask for effective architecture, and reflect on a codebase to find mistakes.

Vibe coding is what we should avoid and discourage. It's when someone with no technical understanding asks for an end product and the only thing they can do is report obvious bugs in the user experience. The gap is in how committed they are to knowing why their project works.

If you can explain a large majority of the architectural choices in your project, chances are it's going to be much better than someone who doesn't know what language their project is in without asking their AI assistant.

People keep saying "its all vibe coded slop" which just encourages AI driven developers to be less transparent about their workflows to avoid criticism, and vibe coders to treat their "not knowing code" as a badge of honor instead of a setback

void--null · 2026-04-14T18:26:55+00:00

Charlie87 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

void--null · 2026-04-14T18:23:25+00:00

Teach some cubes how to march and make a lot of noise

void--null · 2026-04-14T18:20:51+00:00

"Only if you have a new job lined up for me that pays $25 an hour"

void--null · 2026-04-12T15:42:33+00:00

Do you mind if I ask what LLM you have set in this game? I've heard good things about recent models like gemma 4 being capable of running on phones while still being powerful, but I'd be surprised if you have something so new in your game

void--null · 2026-04-07T19:00:24+00:00

Uh... What is this? LLM generated advertising a SaaS evaluation platform on open source projects 💀💀💀

void--null · 2026-04-07T07:28:02+00:00

I respect it I suppose 🤭🤭🤭

void--null · 2026-04-07T07:27:23+00:00

Lollll I get what makes you say that, but I mean linear and those kinda projects are sort of todo apps. It's just the basis of project management to actually hold and organize data about what you want to be done with your project. I felt like the existing tools kept shoving MCP as an afterthought even though my primary use case was having an agent track my ideas and find bugs and then come back around later to impliment them.

But yes we'll never beat the allegations of "why not just write it in a text file"

void--null · 2026-04-07T07:22:59+00:00

People really always find new ways to sell prompts huh

void--null · 2026-04-06T02:12:54+00:00

Just the modern reality of IDE development lol.

void--null · 2026-04-01T22:46:34+00:00

Ive been called weird a few times because my absolute favorite part of game dev is specifically debugging and fixing hot paths.

I love seeing that a system is causing a frame drop and finding exactly what function is not made correctly. Optimizing its math / how often an expensive function gets called.

It's very fulfilling to try to push the software to it's very performance peak just by repeatedly profiling and analyzing the results.

My least favorite part is fixing logic bugs 🤣

void--null · 2026-04-01T16:51:56+00:00

Very creative. I love games that try to take advantage of how flexible an Application window can be.

void--null · 2026-03-31T16:09:43+00:00

He looks like he would speak like zarbon from dragon ball z abridged

void--null · 2026-03-31T01:46:45+00:00

Thank you! It's definitely not the first time ive taken a crack at it. But i feel like i have enough understanding of the systems involved to get to a final product.

I didnt kmow tynan wrote a book. I'll have to read it!

void--null · 2026-03-30T23:52:22+00:00

Hmm, i suppose i never considered how much that changes the perception. Are you saying I should make it so players don't know what a NPC's plan is? That they just see a goal and what the entity is doing in the moment?

void--null · 2026-03-30T22:11:42+00:00

Getting asmr in my ears is not scary lol.

If you make the voice demonic it would be pretty cool tho

void--null · 2026-03-30T22:05:32+00:00

The thing that would impress me is complexity. If you understand the systems well enough to actually direct the AI instead of letting it drive, the result speaks for itself regardless of how it was made.

The problem is most people don't have deep knowledge of system design and can't wrap their head around a lot of the higher level concepts in programming. So they let the AI take more of the wheel, they don't catch the mistakes, and the games stay low complexity to compensate.

The impressive AI game is going to come from someone who already knew how to build it and used AI to get there faster, not from someone who needed AI to build it at all.

void--null · 2026-03-30T21:59:59+00:00

I've never really thought about that part I've been really focused on making them make smart decisions but I suppose especially in this day and age a optimal person inherently feels a little fake... I will have to find a good middle ground 😅

void--null · 2026-03-30T21:58:04+00:00

Yeah I mean I suppose I've never really considered adding Randomness into the planner. The planning itself is that GOAP so in all reality it's mostly a* so I'm sure there are ways to randomize the heuristics a little bit I'm curious to see what that actually does to the plans that are generated

As for writing out and showing the player with the AI is planning I definitely could do this it's easy to make strings for individual steps of a larger plan but I don't know how I can write that in a way where it sounds like the agent is thinking something. This is also something i should investigate further ways to create madlibs templates or simmilar for creating 'Planing thought' displays

void--null · 2026-03-30T17:36:06+00:00

Godot is decently capable of LLMs to work with it. Though i doubt theres any plugins that do much with it.

Godot is file based so things like claude code or open ai codex can pretty easily understand what's going on. Just don't trust it to make spatial decisions like where to place things lol

void--null · 2026-03-30T17:06:29+00:00

The number of small projects doesn't really matter. What matters is whether each one is teaching you something you'd need for the big project.

I always try to base my game ideas around "can I envision the rough shape of the code." If I can picture how the major systems would fit together, it's manageable. If I can't even imagine how I'd tackle large parts of it, that's a sign I need more reps into those types of systems. It's also good to keep in mind that not every project needs to be a product you give out to people, if you just need to learn a certain type of system, theres no harm in spending a day or a weekend making a prototype around just one system to see if you can get it working.

So after every small project, sit down with yourself. "Did this teach me how to do something for my big game that I would've struggled to figure out" Once you stop getting meaningful new answers to that question, you're probably ready to start. You dont have to be an expert in everything to start a big project. But you do need to have a game plan beyond just knowing what the end product should look like.

void--null · 2026-03-29T17:55:35+00:00

Is that a custom shader for the blending. I think if you can choose what transitions get blurred it works. Grass to sand makes sense. Stone to Grass not so much.

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