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Well I've spent the better part of 7 years building a community on my own discord server with dozens of friends, many of whom I interact with daily in voice.

So... what now? I just have my life literally turned upside down because of a greedy surveillance state?


> "On my OWN discord server"

[Emphasis added]. You are confused about ownership, and now sadly are suffering the consequence. The answer to your question is simply yes.


Move the community over to a platform where you actually own the server. There are self hosted alternatives. (or pay a hosting provider to run it)


How do they green-light this? No one wants this. It doesn't make any sense.


Based on my experience using Claude opus 4.5, it doesn't really even get functionality correct. It'll get scaffolding stuff right if you tell it exactly what you want but as soon as you tell it to do testing and features it ranges from mediocre to worse than useless.


Can someone make a version of this that is not AI generated and ACTUALLY correct and pragmatic about the different stages with suggestions about the different scenarios that would lead to the different decisions?


This website itself is running on a single server and handles millions of requests per day. Raw number of users is simply not what decides the architecture, not even a little bit.


I want to do this with a multiplayer online game I'm working on but you just can't do it wrong and have it actually work though :/


Considering the seeming increasing frequency of high severity bugs happening at FAANG companies in the last year I think perhaps The great getting greater is not actually the case.


That's assuming FAANG engineers are actually great.


They're far more likely to be above average I would say.


Above average in tolerance for immoral business models, certainly.


Are game developers vibe coding with agents?

It's such a visual and experiential thing that writing true success criteria it can iterate on seems like borderline impossible ahead of time.


I don't "vibe code" but when I use an LLM with a game I usually branch out into several experiments which I don't have to commit to. Thus, it just makes that iteration process go faster.

Or slower, when the LLM doesn't understand what I want, which is a bigger issue when you spawn experiments from scratch (and have given limited context around what you are about to do).


I'm trying it out with Godot for my little side projects. It can handle writing the GUI files for nodes and settings. The workflow is asking cursor to change something, I review the code changes, then load up the game in Godot to check out the changes. Works pretty well. I'm curious if any Unity or Unreal devs are using it since I'm sure its a similar experience.


It might be biased to Reddit/Twitter users but from what I've seen game developers seem to be much more averse towards using AI (even for coding) than other fields.

Which is curious since prototyping helps a lot in gamedev.


Vibe coding in Unreal Engine is of limited use. It obviously helps with C++, but so much of your time is doing things that are not C++. It hurts a lot that UE relies heavily on blueprints, if they were code you could just vibecode a lot of that.


A big problem is that a lot of game logic is done in visual scripting (e.g unreal blueprints) which AI tools have no idea about


"Eating meat is quite clearly immoral. Unless it will be detrimental to your health, eat as little as possible."

lol


Hi there – author of the post here. I eat meat – to my shame. Unless you're rearing your own livestock and giving them happy lives and a painless slaughter, I consider eating meat immoral. Aniamls bred for food are kept in awful conditions and killed usually in inhumane ways. I think it's tough to claim eating the results of the the mass livestock industry isn't anything other than supporting the torture of animals. Animals who have the ability to think and feel. It's simply wrong. I would even argue it's this centuries slavery, in that it's something future generations will look back on us in shock, unable to comprehend how we were okay with it all.


yeah wtf is he talking about?


Factory farms enable mass torture of intelligent, feeling animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRwk


Thought I recall Vinay Prasad saying (back in 2020 or 2021) that masks don't really work well enough for us to force all kids to wear them. Like chance passing encounters they have some effectiveness, but an imperfectly used non-n95 mask is basically worthless. But the latter scenario is what nearly everyone was doing.


>Vinay Prasad

frequent touter of other right-wing ideas surround the pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay_Prasad#COVID_response

>but an imperfectly used non-n95 mask is basically worthless.

also not true. Even surgical or cloth masks on bearded individuals provide 30-40% aerosol filtration https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8130778/

The myth that laypeople couldn't effectively use masks was just turning the topic into an all-or-nothing binary, knowing people would be discouraged.


[redacted because the replier is in the business of not telling the truth]


And your political views are clouding your judgment of what a proper response to disease is.

If surgical masks are insufficient because people are getting Covid sitting in rooms with others re-breathing the same air for hours, then valid solutions are to remove the people from the environment, remove the hazard from the environment, or provide better means to protect people from the environment, not increase people's exposure to the hazard.

So-called lockdowns and isolation were very limited outside of perhaps China and are vastly overblown rhetorically in how strict they were in practice.

The effect of repeated COVID infections on children is something measurable and demonstrably serious, and we'll continue to find out more and more of these issues overtime.


I think you're taking things a bit too personally here and being defensive, and a bit hostile. We can stay decent and dignified on hacker news, right?


the average glazer on HN will tell you that you can just use an agent to do this part as well.


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