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New comment by gafferongames in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

gafferongames — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:53:04 +0000

If you guys didn't already realize that Microsoft was a garbage company in the 90s I really don't know what to say...

New comment by gafferongames in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

gafferongames — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:10:29 +0000

Don't worry, it's coming

New comment by gafferongames in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

gafferongames — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:02:08 +0000

Why are rust people always insane?

New comment by gafferongames in "In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives"

gafferongames — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:27:09 +0000

Fascism has come to the United States.

New comment by gafferongames in "Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks"

gafferongames — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:09:30 +0000

Great article! Thanks for posting this.

New comment by gafferongames in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

gafferongames — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:26:23 +0000

Amen brother

New comment by gafferongames in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

gafferongames — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:53:45 +0000

Just wait until they discover head of line blocking

New comment by gafferongames in "'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets"

gafferongames — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:13:52 +0000

Good? The sooner we see consequences for this ridiculous behavior the better.

New comment by gafferongames in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

gafferongames — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:59:30 +0000

Second system effect.

New comment by gafferongames in "A Vulnerability in Libsodium"

gafferongames — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:44:45 +0000

Such a great library. Thank you Frank Denis

New comment by gafferongames in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

gafferongames — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:01:24 +0000

I think you could have an infinite amount of time and you still wouldn't be able to create a real first person shooter.

New comment by gafferongames in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

gafferongames — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:00:08 +0000

I'm a professional game developer who has worked on real multiplayer first person shooters. My bar for "is this a real first person shooter" is a lot higher than yours.

My bar is, does this actually work and is it best practice for how first person shooters are made by professional game developers.

Your bar is, does it kinda look a bit like the thing that I play?

Totally different things.

New comment by gafferongames in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

gafferongames — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:31:59 +0000

I did not say what a multiplayer FPS is. I said "how a multiplayer FPS works".

There is a difference.

New comment by gafferongames in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

gafferongames — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:12:40 +0000

It's not even technically impressive to anybody who has worked on first person shooters. It's literally trash.

New comment by gafferongames in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

gafferongames — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:11:10 +0000

I can assure you that Valve is not remotely concerned about this AI generated "first person shooter" taking market share away from them.

New comment by gafferongames in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

gafferongames — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:06:42 +0000

"At the end, all models built real a multiplayer FPS, with zero code written by hand! That’s pretty darn cool."

If you don't understand how a multiplayer FPS works, how can you tell if the AI has actually created one for you or not?

New comment by gafferongames in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

gafferongames — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:51:27 +0000

These guys don't know what they don't know:

"Now let's make shots work. When I shoot, send the shot as a topic, and make it affect the target's HP. When the target HP goes to zero, they should die and respawn."

This is not how shooting is implemented in a competitive first person shooter.

New comment by gafferongames in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

gafferongames — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:11:16 +0000

And yet I'm sitting in one

New comment by gafferongames in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

gafferongames — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:07:06 +0000

Not if they have private planes, unfortunately.

New comment by gafferongames in "Game design is simple"

gafferongames — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:53:05 +0000

Thank you!