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BatFastardon Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft

Sadly the low hanging fruit is cloning other peoples games.

This takes away from all the indies that AI is empowering. I use AI on the game I am creating. It is wonderful in many ways. (I say this as I watch it burn thru 2m tokens with out informing me of the scope of what it was going to do).

BatFastardon Major Memory Vendor: We're Basically Sold Out Through 2029

This sucks! I would really like to upgrade my PC memory, silly me thinking 64 GB was enough.

And I would love to build a home LLM server, but 10,000 is not in my budget right now.

BatFastardon Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?

Its better then 80% of people I have hired.

BatFastardon Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?

Ignorance is BLISS!

BatFastardon Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?

I love my AI tools, but if left alone they would cover the front lawn in rabbit holes. For now they need people to make judgement calls.

Will this be the case in 5 years, probably. They will certainly be different rabbit holes.

BatFastardon Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?

AI may have no skin in the game.

But it will work all night and on weekends. It never gets sick. It never forgets to do something. And as far as I can tell, it does it best work all the time.

That's enough skin for me.

BatFastardon Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior

I strangely have mixed feelings on this. Half of me says "Illegal search and seizure", the other half say "We need to get the crazy drivers off the road"

BatFastardon Genie 4

Isn't that what streamers are for?

I mean - reviewers!

BatFastardon Genie 4

Amazing!

Question I have is when will they be able to render something more then 30 seconds.

And how much will it cost? There has to be a HUGE amount of computing power behind this. As a video game developer I live in fear and anticipation.

BatFastardon Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

Amazing, most addictive things I have seen in ages.

BatFastardon Tesla Roadster

Two thumbs up for the Slate vehicles. Simple, cheap, non trackable.

BatFastardon Tesla Roadster

Did you see 0 to 60 in 0.81 second, now THAT is flying!

BatFastardon How to engineer an AI harness for game development

I pretty much agree with everything he said.

I've been building virtual worlds, games and game engines for 25 years, and the last year has been amazing. Last December was the start of a revolution, and in the ten months since, the models have just kept getting better.

These days I can sic Opus 5.5 on ten issues from my todo list, go to bed, and wake up to them fixed. It's always faster than I would have been, but speed isn't what impresses me. It holds every issue in mind at once and connects them in ways I never did.

It has real limits. It's great at connecting what's already there, but it doesn't invent anything. It's weak on visual detail, and consistency is a foreign word to it. You have to keep steering it. Do that well and it will blow you away.

Whenever I have tokens to spare, I point it at architecture reviews, code reviews and security reviews. It keeps the codebase tight.

Over the last year it has written 250k lines of code for me, it has generated all of the icons for the game, it has written retargeters to take Maximo animations and put them on my model. Damn.

BatFastardon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

I was looking at those costs think wow, that is high.

Then I realized I was spending 3600.00 USD for Anthropic and OpenAI per year.

BatFastardon JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

I would say paying 50,000 USD per year for tokens to double productivity is cheap.

And hopefully they are just paying that per developer, not per employee.

BatFastardon Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world

Fun, thx for sharing

BatFastardon Everyone's Packing Up

But I love the smell of freshly carved wood, you would miss out on that.

BatFastardon Everyone's Packing Up

I agree dream bigger!

If it gets done too fast with LLM you need to think bigger.

BatFastardon Factorio that you can touch

If ONLY I had know to buy 16 GB of VRam on my cards. I have 12, but they struggle.

Hell if I had know that a 5090 would be worth 6000 USD I would have brought as many of them as I could for 2000 USD!

BatFastardon Factorio that you can touch

You think Factorio its self is bad? Try the Space Exploration mod! It expands the game with a ton of fun new problems.

BatFastardon Claude Opus 5.5

I prefer Astra for creative uses, Fable seems better for hardcore coding.

BatFastardon M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

True, but do you need a 10,000 dollar machine to do so?

I would love to find an excuse to buy a 10,000 dollar machine! But I cant find one yet. My current cloud bill is in excess of 400 USD per month. Just can't achieve frontier model capabilities locally.

BatFastardon M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

Anthropic is reporting 100 Billion ARR.

Even if you could get a frontier model, you would not be able to run it on any Mac. So speculating on what M7 or M9 will achieve in 5 years (if we even still exist) seems pointless.

BatFastardon M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

>A more apples-to-apples comparison

Don't you mean an Apple to NVidea comparison?

BatFastardon I think you should almost never use AI to write

I use an antagonistic agent to review and refute its findings, works great.

BatFastardon Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?

Read https://ai-2027.com/

This prediction has proven quite accurate so far.

Don't think anyone should panic, but people should be aware.

BatFastardon I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

Has anyone read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_War:_A_Scenario

Sounds like there already exist some pretty crazy biological weapons in existence. I dont know if it will be 5 years or 20 years, but at some point some fanatic will try to kill the rest of us.

BatFastardon Can AI design circuit boards yet?

And software engineers have a right solution? Guess again.

BatFastardon iPhone Duo

I can't argue with that model, but in the past they actually did new and interesting things! The M series processor, the iPhone. Lets hope new CEO who is more of an engineer then the last one was ramps things up.

BatFastardon iPhone Duo

Go Apple, bring up the rear!

Can they even do anything new?