That's representation, baby!

BUT HER AIM IS GETTING BETTER!

(is this thing on?)

Looks solid to me.

Try banding along the topology. 1 black, 1 white, 2 black, 1 white, then all black.

The only thing reddit hates more than reposts is OC.

Yeah. Sounds like how I write code. I have these periods where I just brew, but get no lines down. Mostly just thinking about structure. Then I get a burst where I put down 7K lines in a day and a half.

Lost it at "Nah fam, fuck that."

In general, programming is an art of self-evolution. The more code you write, the more times you are gonna come across the same pattern. You need to write that big ball of code to start seeing the patterns in the noise. Don't try to do it right the first time.

You won't. Write code.

A couple of solid programming concepts to help you out:

Separation of concern
Naming conventions
DRY principle
Magic number problem

However, it is always demoralizing when you start to scale and things are starting to fall apart. The biggest thing is basically not blaming the tools, and learning to benchmark, ask questions, and understand bad patterns in your environment of choice.

The answer is that you don't really avoid it. The process of #gamedev is making a mess, and then cleaning it up. Refactoring as you grow and learn is part of the process.

Get it working first. Then make it pretty if you have time. That's the most important thing.

AI cuts both ways. Individuals can use it to compete with established businesses whose decision makers are employing it without regard for its actual value.

A lot of companies are gonna double down hard on LLMs, fire their humans, and be left in the dust by the companies that keep their humans + AI

I think we're in a space where a pretty big shakeup is going to happen; we've empowered a lot of non-technical people to be technical decision-makers, which is why the first wave of AI adoption is destroying much more than it is creating.

So really, instead of using AI to do something that is beyond my technical skill level, it allows me to simplify something much more beautiful, but ultimately pointless, as my audience for the script I'm writing isn't there to hear me jerk myself off and use the word 'forsooth' in the right context.

I've found what I think is a fantastic use of LLMs. I'm not very good, frankly, at writing accessibly. My prose is layered, my vocabulary is broad, and I have a penchant for weaving multiple loose loops around an idea before I cinch and tie it off.

LLMs can take my complex ideas make them plainer.

Oh, absolutely. I suppose, my main concern is really that there are ethical and practical ramifications.

If only the despots have the nuclear weapon, the future is quite bleak.

Regardless of whether or not we should have, it was made, and we are going to have to live in that world now.