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New comment by km3r in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

km3r — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:06:39 +0000

80-90% of devs, which will make for 99%+ of games with 5+ developers working on it.

Sure, some solo projects might not use AI, but those are the exact people who i think should be using AI for game dev. Games are often best when a single person can execute their vision, and the productivity gains from AI enable a solo dev to actually execute on a larger vision.

New comment by km3r in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

km3r — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:03:59 +0000

Most programmers admit to it if you ask them, its everyone else making assumptions.

New comment by km3r in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

km3r — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:01:00 +0000

You don't miss out on hidden gems, you miss out on ~95% of games. Most programmers are using AI now, and when you get into any game with a significant amount of devs, at least a few of them are using it.

New comment by km3r in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

km3r — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:59:34 +0000

Slop vs non slop isn't what is getting marked though, AI is. Almost all developers are using AI code tooling now, so its a pretty meaningless marker. We need actual way to mark slop, which requires something a little more complicated than "did they use AI"

New comment by km3r in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"

km3r — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:41:15 +0000

It's also one of the major way labs can understand these models. Without the models are significantly harder to understand and align.

New comment by km3r in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

km3r — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:25:15 +0000

Yeah I think this is the clear position. In a few months, the open weights models will be just as powerful as the models behind the rouge agents were when they hacked hugging face. Anyone with a little too much money to burn can set up a similar experiment, make similar mistakes, and cause massive damage. A bad faith actor can even direct a swarm to cause havoc.

We need to be beef up our security systems now. These attacks will happen, regardless of Anthropic's or OpenAI's security practices.

New comment by km3r in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

km3r — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:16:35 +0000

> The root of this challenge comes from more text aka more code ~= more tokens, so these firms have little incentive to optimize for that mindset.

I'm not sure if this is true. The code is such a small part of the total output. Thinking harder, like what would be needed for architecturing better code, would use more token.

New comment by km3r in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

km3r — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:03:19 +0000

But a little bit of directing of the architecture can easily bring in design patterns.

Ideally, you design patterns that enable quick replacing of parts that get to messy. The code is cheap, just start from scratch with the defined functionality pre defined instead of bolted on with jank.

New comment by km3r in "Shade Map"

km3r — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:27:12 +0000

My friends and I used this for a camping party's solar panel's placement (for charging a battery). A large campsite with intermixed trees makes it hard to find the optimal spot on our own, but this map helped us keep the party going late into the night before we needed to turn on the generator.

New comment by km3r in "I won't read LLM authored fiction"

km3r — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:43:26 +0000

A harness can definitely still make it "deterministic":

if (responses > 3) prompt.md += "Divert the conversation to bring up QUEST4.md"

I look at it a lot like procedural generation. It can be done well if used in the right spots and enough handwritten/tweaked stuff to make sure it feels right.

New comment by km3r in "I won't read LLM authored fiction"

km3r — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:39:03 +0000

I dont think it should be a PR horror anymore than someone using photoshop to make a disturbing image. I get that is not quite the current reaction, but i dont see why it should be that way.

New comment by km3r in "I won't read LLM authored fiction"

km3r — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:45:31 +0000

While I understand the hesitancy for LLM fiction, I do look forward to LLM powered games, *IF DONE RIGHT*. I imagine a game like Skyrim, where each character has handwritten backstory and dialogue, with an LLM extending that.

Having the city guard dynamically react to what you do, stay in character, and even point you to new POI from those conversations seems like a very cool new dimension in storytelling.

I took a creative writing class back in the day, and we talked about how fiction writers often have a massive "canon" backstory to many characters and worlds, and draw from that to create the story. That same backstory details can be use to flesh out a very immersive world. You still have guidance and handwritten essential lines, just use LLMs to enhance the world.

Now, will there be lots of projects that use LLMs to take shortcuts and be far from this idealized narrative, yes. But not all of them. Some will stand out for getting it right.

New comment by km3r in "LLMs won't break symmetric crypto"

km3r — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:33:50 +0000

Many crypto algorithms have formal proofs that they are reductions of hard problems like factorization. Those problems may not be solvable, only brute forcible. Some could be eventually solved, but the likelihood of every single one being solvable is unlikely.

New comment by km3r in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

km3r — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:45:48 +0000

I wonder if giving the models context of the temperature of its past generations would help here. Like a thinking mode that deliberately has a section that is high temperature, while the rest is lower.

New comment by km3r in "Waymo in Dallas"

km3r — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:03:49 +0000

Anti nuclear, anti AI, pro-rent control, anti-self driving tech, anti-automation

New comment by km3r in "Waymo in Dallas"

km3r — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:02:09 +0000

The science shows self driving cars are already safer. The same was (and is) true of nuclear compared to oil/gas.

New comment by km3r in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

km3r — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:29:14 +0000

Minecraft started on Java, a massive mod and server community created around it. Consoles won't run JIT/JVM/Java, so the Bedrock C++ version was created. People don't want to give up the massive mod community, so OG pc players stay on Java, while console players and newer PC players go to bedrock (with some of those PC players jumping over to Java after servers or mods are discovered).

They almost have feature parity, but there are some small differences around the edges. There exists modded server options for enabling bedrock and java users to connect to the same server.

New comment by km3r in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

km3r — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:30:14 +0000

Automation. And i think that vastly overestimating the time it takes to write explicit prompts.

New comment by km3r in "The state of open source AI"

km3r — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:32:21 +0000

Except when we upgraded to 1080p from older TVs, they got bigger. Now with 4k they are getting bigger yet. More powerful models means new use cases that didn't make sense on the weaker models.

New comment by km3r in "The state of open source AI"

km3r — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:14:49 +0000

The subscription is certainly subsidized but its no where near 100x cheaper than API prices.

Heck, most large enterprise moved to usage based billing and are still happily paying for it. They are force multipliers for your top talent, and when a top engineer is being paid $500k a year, doubling their output for $500/day is a no brainer.