Been using copilot and another smaller AI model for hobby projects. Both of them slowed me down as much as they helped me with my code.

Now I’ve switched to supermaven free tier, and it’s actually net positive for me.

It’s not like it’s writing whole functions for me, but it’s actually quite context sensitive when it comes to defining functions and using them with the same parameters and things like that. I won’t say I am 50% faster, but I could easily attribute a 30% development boost to it. Now mind you, for bug fixes and bug prevention that’s back down to a 5% boost in speed, but that’s still a net positive, so I’ll take that.

Played it on PC and it’s really cool, although I was hesitant at first considering it looks a bit like those cookie cutter role based rpgs that just want to rent a spot in your wallet.

Yeah honestly this makes a lot of sense to me.

Their lawyers are vocally rubbing their hands rn

Right after Ubisoft added an offline mode for the crew 2 iirc

Hopefully this makes some of the Firefox shills finally realize it’s time to change our recommendations.

I’ve heard so much shit lately about Firefox, it has become a sinking ship and I’m eager to see who picks up the shards and runs with it.

The biggest child in the room is that pain in the ass of a parent.

Been using Vivaldi for about 2 years now.

Old Vivaldi was ass, the new vivaldi is awesome from a usability perspective. A ton of customizability, very clean, advanced features like workspaces and tab groups, …

Honestly the only things I’m missing is custom browser base (not chromium) and easier switching between browser profiles (cookies etc).

Yes, it is based on Chromium. But in the Chromium universe, it’s the best thing I’ve seen to date, no doubt.

Arm gaming sounds like a wild thing rn ngl

This is most likely an error in space-time.

Yeah AI as a dev is shit, but AI as a more thoughtful auto-complete is actually pretty great.

To me it looks like AIs currently are right at the boundary between being a tool and being a companion. But to be a full companion, they can’t be up against the boundary, they need to be well established and tried and tested as a companion to be used repeatedly, so we’re still a few decades out from that from what I can tell.

No man’s sky is not really the fitting example you think it anymore. Over time the devs put in some work.

Yeah I’m pretty sure the changes he praises have made me not play this game in about 3 years.

And running game studios as a business sound wrong to me. Yes, you need to make money, but it’s a creative branch and as soon as you make a pipeline for how you make your games, people will get bored of it, see Ubisoft.

Maybe they had big issues with monetization but what he’s talking about doesn’t sound healthy at all for the developers and artists working there.

Also I’m still a bit salty that I paid for destiny2 and then they made it free and introduced DLCs. Such a slap in the face.

I know this is a bit late, but copilot is only ok if used for code completion. I switched to the free tier of supermaven a month ago and it’s been way more helpful, as it can handle context better. Probably cuts coding in half and takes away a third of debugging.

Asking chatgpt for code has also become better, but imo still not reliable enough to regularly use. Just had some docker code written and it got it wrong 3 times so I gave up on that.

I get your point, AI can only save time if you know exactly what you’re doing and it will only be helpful sometimes. But when it is, it’s such a time saver.

That’s very well put

Yeah I mean ratings are giving you an idea of whether there’s a chance you like that game. The higher the rating, the higher the chance. But there’s always a bit of chance involved.

I tend to buy highly rated games much more often, but if I really am hyped for a game with an OK rating, I still might give it a go. You never know if it will hit your specific niche.

Man if big studios are constantly layng ppl off, that means in a few years we will probably have an influx of even more small game studios and it’s gonna be way harder for big companies to acquire them.

Though I don’t like the layoffs, I like the world in which game developers are back to steering their own company again.

Took long enough but it finally seems like consumer protection groups are pushing against this internationally.

The cool thing is, if either EU or US make laws surrounding this, it will put an incentive in place for the other to follow up. And because the US and EU are so influential, a lot of other countries will follow up. Even better, because China is already putting pressure on everyone to put limits in place, considering this year they already put laws in place against that. One of those rare China Ws.

I’m rooting so hard for them.

Why is Pirate Software a fraud?

I appreciated his take on it. Don’t trust politicians to come up with a good solution, always present the issue when you have a good solution ready. And the solution proposed by that petition was weak at best and outright dangerous for the industry at worst.

If you want to force specificity on buying v getting limited time access, that’s fine, but that’s not what the petition focused on.

If you wanna force devs to plan ahead with huge infrastructure cost to make sure servers will be online for a specific time, this might result in online games being unjustifiable for smaller studios.

If you want to shield independent people hosting unofficial servers to games, now that’s a different conversation that we first need to have to figure it out, before proposing an exact solution through a petition. Mind you this is a more complicated topic, as this gets into licensing and IP law.

And I really don’t think stop killing games is clear on those, and that makes this endeavor a lottery with the entire multiplayer games industry in limbo.

Give me another more precise initiative and I’ll join, but until then I’ll definitely not sign anything. If we change things, we should change them for the better, so let’s do our due diligence first.