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New comment by jayd16 in "Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome"

jayd16 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:57:27 +0000

You can do this but if it's too granular (like you have no concept of version compatibility) then it can heavily split your matchmaking.

Plus the headaches of keeping many out of date builds up to date enough to deploy.

Even if you don't care about in game compatibility, all your servers still talk to some centralized data store and that will likely want a single deploy that handles old clients

New comment by jayd16 in "Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome"

jayd16 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:56:21 +0000

Then players are locked out of multiplayer until they download a possibily large content patch.

New comment by jayd16 in "Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome"

jayd16 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:32:38 +0000

> video game space where struct versioning is not needed

Save files? Looser than exact version multiplayer?

New comment by jayd16 in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

jayd16 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:50:42 +0000

Doesn't last through undergrad in most cases. Mostly because you move a lot.

New comment by jayd16 in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

jayd16 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:46:13 +0000

If it's been through a move it just might.

New comment by jayd16 in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

jayd16 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:45:20 +0000

Is IKEA just a drop in for "cheap crap" in this analogy? It's not like all furniture is IKEA by a long shot.

I guess in terms of "IKEA is fine if you're 23" AI is fine for throwaway work.

New comment by jayd16 in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

jayd16 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:46:46 +0000

Even if that was true, you'd have to still prove it has emerged.

New comment by jayd16 in "AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward"

jayd16 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:56:34 +0000

Make the feature a per user list of flagged sources.

New comment by jayd16 in "Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding"

jayd16 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:02:07 +0000

People seem to be conflating loss of control and predictable outputs with management. Maybe that's intentional spin or just wishful thinking.

New comment by jayd16 in "Soup Raiders goes native: What you gain by building your own game engine"

jayd16 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:49:11 +0000

Source is based on the Quake engine. A lot of those AAA games you're thinking probably are.

New comment by jayd16 in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

jayd16 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:38:50 +0000

Always wrong too.

New comment by jayd16 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

jayd16 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:13:33 +0000

In a similar vein, does anyone know how to classify the kinds of problems that are being found?

Is it possible to build heavier traditional linting to catch whatever is being caught in a more deterministic way? It seems to me that would be far more efficient in the long run (even if the efficiency is only for the AI to know that aspect was already checked).

New comment by jayd16 in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

jayd16 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:54:13 +0000

Make sure to put that front and center on the website next time.

New comment by jayd16 in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

jayd16 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:44:24 +0000

A lot of sci-fi authors have published in their 20s.

New comment by jayd16 in "What garbage collection actually costs"

jayd16 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:55:14 +0000

Did you "Agreed" your own blog?

New comment by jayd16 in "What garbage collection actually costs"

jayd16 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:49:06 +0000

What engine do you recommend?

New comment by jayd16 in "What garbage collection actually costs"

jayd16 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:45:30 +0000

So are you saying this cottage industry achieves success or the industry formed around an impossible task?

A cottage industry is built around making rocks look good too. Is that an indicator that games are good or bad at making rocks?

New comment by jayd16 in "What garbage collection actually costs"

jayd16 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:33:20 +0000

Lots of ways but an obvious and generic answer is to use pooling.

New comment by jayd16 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

jayd16 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:40:55 +0000

no, not like that at all.

New comment by jayd16 in "Grok 4.6"

jayd16 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:57:34 +0000

Is this top tier satire or pure naivety? You're arguing that military contractors or public companies couldn't possibly be corrupt or nefarious?