“tHe PrOgReSs hAs bEeN iNsAnE”
Rich kid uses parents’ money to hire a company to port the game
hire a company to port the game
That traditionally implies actual humans.
For those of you who feel sorry for Nintendo with this situation, I blamed Nintendo. It’s come to the point where they have to realize that PC is a viable platform that they need to utilize instead of avoiding it. When they avoid it and don’t do an official release, this is what they get. Your games on PC are inevitable now with or without you. It’s a reality. Adopt.
feel sorry for Nintendo
Who?
It took piracy to make AI. It took piracy to make AI profitable.
AI isn’t even profitable
The issue lies with knowing what the code does that AI produces, if you don’t have a clue and still use it that is when you are a vibe coder in my book.
If you just use it to increase productivity and improve code then I don’t see any issue with that and it does not make you any less of a developer. Times have changed, Stack Overflow is from the past.
I program longer than that kid lives.
If I slop out code, I still see it as a piece of crap. It doesn’t matter whether I understand it or proof-read it. If I ever do that, I stop being a programmer.
You don’t see any advantage to having code auto written to spec and then being able to tweak the result? Just simply as a time saving/efficiency hack?
Honestly curious, not baiting here.
I am very confused. $9,000 in API costs, but also Claude Max subscription? Shouldn’t it be $100-200/mo?
I had thought its either/or, either you pay per token, or a fixed subscription.
I think the number is just what it would have cost in pure AI tokens if they weren’t using the subscription.
That’s what I assumed as well, like $1 million in drugs on the street about $3.50 to produce.
I wonder how far $9000 would have gone if it was donated to real people working on a port instead.
In either case I’ll never lower myself to voluntarily consume AI slop.
Answer: something that would’ve run much better on much lower end hardware and worked for more than one game, but would’ve taken much longer to produce (since actual human thought went into it) which is the only metric people seem to pay attention to.
Immediate convenience is the metric we’ve been trained to exclusively focus on. Bread and circuses and all that. It’s why I’ve been purposefully adding inconveniencea to my life to try to build up some of my patience and preservation again.
$9k won’t get you far in the US or most of Europe.
Given that he is almost certainly using a $100 or $200/month plan, he could probably only afford a 30-60 minute consultation.
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It would have to happen through donations to people already working on this stuff on a volunteer basis, not normal contract work. As the whole thing is based on IP theft anyway it would be a terrible idea to hire people for it in a normal way.
Must be nice to have a rich parent.
Future dystopia: investing in your own skills is no longer valuable. That kid with rich parents will always be ahead of you.
Thats the promise of AI. Take skills from people without money and give it to people with money.
Not so future tbh, that already is the case a lot more often than we’d like to admit. Rich parents and parents with good connections are the absolute jackpots you have to land as kid or you’ll be some kind of screwed unless you manage to be incredibly lucky later on.
I’m not saying that rich people have never had an advantage. I’m saying that the only thing that gives lower income people a little bit of extra advantage is completely lost.
It doesn’t matter if you’re the best programmer in the world. You’re no match to what the rich brat can output.
And currently it doesn’t matter if you’re the best programmer in the world if you can’t find people willing to either work with you or employ you because say you’re poor and have a crappy personality. Or because you’re highly autistic and undiagnosed and people always tried to avoid you and all you ever learned was doing things on your own.
Or you could even possibly be the best programmer in the world if you actually could touch a computer in the first place, sucks that you have to spend your childhood on some cocoa fields.
All your (dormant) skills are nothing without opportunities to actually use them to their fullest and you can only go so far on your own. If you were born into the wrong family (as in wrong economic status) it’s very possible you don’t even have the chance to develop your amazing abilities in the first place, ai or not.
Yeah, taking AI out of the context of tomato’s comment makes you think it’s not already the case, but it’s been the case since, like, wealth and connections and status became a thing, if not earlier.
Back on topic, I don’t think having real skills that you can leverage without AI is going to completely lock you out of a job or something. For now, it is pretty gloom, but I’m seeing more and more cases in my company where AI leads to nearly catastrophic failures because people use it mindlessly and generate too much busywork of others, who don’t bother checking it that thoroughly, leading to really bad consequences for everyone in a couple of weeks since the slopping commenced.
Of course, it’s happening because the upper-management has been pushing hard for everyone to use AI for everything.
Maybe companies turn away from AI because their average AI user does more harm than good with it. If I can’t have a world where all the tech that’s powering AI goes to something where it actually has benefits (which is a few scientific fields and applications like protein folding or some shit, if that hasn’t been proven wrong, too), I hope I can at least have a world where AI has disappointed the decision makers enough so that it becomes a niche expensive toy for morons with money that are ridiculed and shunned.
That’s the current dystopia, dawg.
Always has been 🔫 🧑🚀
Being rich is a cheatcode.
That’s not future dystopia. That’s just how it is and how it has always been since capitalism was invented
What future lol. That has been the case for thousands of years. Science, art, philosophy, writing and so on was the thing rich people did for thousands of years. Some peasant’s kid had to work in the fields as soon as he could while the rich people’s kid could get education. This is not something new. The last few hundred years or so is where this wasn’t the case as public education became a thing and people’s standards of living rose enough that kids were not just another pair of hands to help on the farm or around the house.
“Michael Reeves here. Today we’re replacing the brain of this Tesla Cybertruck with a fly brain running on an XBox!”
And a community who are ok with being beta testers
when Nintendo figures out where to send the lawsuit
Can’t wait for the shoe to drop and horror stories of the “hEaD dEv” have their computer wiped because the generative AI agent did something it wasn’t tasked to do. That’s always the hope so that way we can laugh at their punishment.
That, or in the case of generative AI, I am willing to side with the capitalist cthulu cult leaders since I hate the generattive AI cthulu beast “we” are creating even more. In other words, for once would absolutely side with sintendo if they sued the kid into taking down “their” “work” all because of the usage of generative AI.
Hell, maybe the parents, or more likely some 3rd party paid by the parents if the kid is constantly going through accounts and can afford to do it, would then step in and teach that kid a lesson. I’d hope it’s a lesson on being a decent human and not using generative AI for anything, but if they’re a rich enough family, you know there won’t be any serious life lesson.
I’ve gotten in the habit of looking at all software for LLM commits on their Github page.
Check out the SlopScan extension
I will, thanks.
Edit:
Brave gets an F with 47 Claude or Copilot commits.
Cake Wallet gets and A+ with 48 Claude commits.
Notesnook is in S tier with 8 commits from Copilot.
Not a fan of how they score.
I legit started to cheer for Sony and Nintendo recently lol. I hate how people act like this is a good thing.
No, AI bros being shit doesn’t make Sony and Nintendo good. They are massive companies that will take advantage of you whenever they think that they will get away with it. They don’t deserve your sympathy.
