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At least my experience is that a vibe coded app gets to 'early alpha' then stays there. If AI is augmenting a developer who is otherwise competent and they don't let it get ahead of their own understanding, it can work out though not as 'miraculously fast' as this. If AI can oneshot an application then it can also work out. If a project vibes itself in a week or two to 'looks like what it should be but isn't good enough', then thus far every one I see is doomed to sit there, because the AI can't finish it and if you let the GenAI produce that much code, it's generally not serviceable even for very capable developers.

I spent a lot of time last week basically peeling back an overly vibed attempt at an application by a colleague. It was too flaky and incomplete and deleting large sections of it was frankly more practical than trying to rework it. It had gotten to the point where every attempt to try to have GenAI fix it one way would just break something else. That project was, essentially a fairly small command line utility, I fear to think what something the level of a Photoshop knockoff would be like.

Read a review by someone, this vibed up solution isn't going to win anyone over either because it evidently sucks. It may imitate the UI more closely for what works, but not much works adequately.

It was the height of long cutscene JRPGs.

But I recommend them wholeheartedly. Don't expect super involved gameplay mechanics, but a solid turn based JRPG with lengthy cutscenes.

Also be sure not to skip out on Xenogears.

I prefer a vaguely stoney look, but again not trying to look too much like specific stone. Further I favor larger tiles over plank form factor.

Or some sort of design untethered from imitating some other material, though I admit I don't know of any examples of that off hand.

Just something about very specific wood looking with a plastic feel, especially the ones that have a bit of ridges along the grain that actual wood wouldn't have.

But absolutely agree that a decent thick vinyl plank or tile is a great material.

Oh I am fine with the vinyl, I would just prefer some non wood appearance for it . Also would favor tile over plank.

Thought we were talking about games, not very long movies...

Back in the day I bought an edition of xenosaga ii that came with a dvd of xenosaga I cutscenes....

I am eager for faux wood vinyl planks to go out.

I don't mind vinyl, but just find the attempt to imitate wood makes it feel obviously like cheaping out.

I'm not a physicist, but I have heard this before.

I think it's because people see that the lorenz factor has an asymptote, and so commonly math comes back after an asymptote.

But the denominator is a square root, so there is nothing after the asymptote.

Maybe also inspiring the TNG warp curve, where warp 5 was so much easier than say 4.99.

Anyway, as far as I know there is no theory of anything FTL.

I agree, though sometimes in retrospect after they see how they're post lands they will retroactively claim they didn't actually mean it. So have to take rationalizations with a grain of salt.

One would think so, however knowing personally a few people deep in the AI rabbit hole.. some folks just get oddly broken.

Even if they haven't shown or spoken of their AI usage, I'm starting to be able to tell when a person has been a heavy conversational user as the way they interact with people just becomes... Unpleasantly off.

It's kind of weird because it kind of acts like 80/20, but you end up doing a significant effort to unwind things back to 60/40 to start trying to massage it to what you really need.

Assuming it's one of the areas where it does relatively strongly, other areas it will flounder far worse and for some scenarios it can essentially one shot a working thing, if it is really a supremely common and simple thing.

Guess my career has gone such that I've always looked to code and git history to wrap my head around, because the documentation people write is unreliable.

Particularly in enterprise, where for some reason there's some "developer" who writes a word document and then buggers off while someone else actually does the coding and the relationship between actual code and document drift because the "architect" never had to reconcile his document with the realities.