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Comment on Software developers are not okay in ~tech
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Comment on Software developers are not okay in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentAs a game developer, I'd definitely stick with your day job (or have a solid support network). Takes a long time to get your game out, and while the emotional satisfaction and pride will be there,...As a game developer, I'd definitely stick with your day job (or have a solid support network). Takes a long time to get your game out, and while the emotional satisfaction and pride will be there, the financials might not be. So it' ultimately a gamble.
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Comment on Software developers are not okay in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentGiven the VC's slowly tightening their belts and the horror stories in the job market: we're not currently in a market of "start a new company" or "just switch jobs". It's more a question of if...Given the VC's slowly tightening their belts and the horror stories in the job market: we're not currently in a market of "start a new company" or "just switch jobs". It's more a question of if you need to get your foot in the door, hold on for dear life, or just take this chance to leave on an extended sabbatical leveraged by years of savings.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link Parentwill such UI/UX on your resume make it past the ats screening and get you to a human? Will that human even realize the value of such requirements engineering when companies are still so fixated on...will such UI/UX on your resume make it past the ats screening and get you to a human? Will that human even realize the value of such requirements engineering when companies are still so fixated on this odd mix of hard technical skills and soft people skills?
There's many great options once you get your first few doors open, but you're prying with a crowbar in those early stages these days.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentTried talking to quite a few of those. Can't really seem to crack past the early vibes stages. But maybe that's just my location and background. Not a lot of people in LA who wouldn't just make...Tried talking to quite a few of those. Can't really seem to crack past the early vibes stages.
But maybe that's just my location and background. Not a lot of people in LA who wouldn't just make the jump to SF. I already refuse to move for a new job in my already unstable domain; I sure as heck won't do it for some scrappy startup who needs to focus more on pushing AI a real solution to the world's problems.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentThere are shifts and then there are trends. Tech has had plenty of trends that for a while disrupted the ability for other sub-sectors to do their duty (see: big data the decade before, and mobile...I mean, does that make it not true?
There are shifts and then there are trends. Tech has had plenty of trends that for a while disrupted the ability for other sub-sectors to do their duty (see: big data the decade before, and mobile some 15-20 years ago. Oh, and a little thing called the dotcom age).
Trends can indeed become a shift, but never at the same time. The dotcom bubble was a trend ultimately stabilizing, but it didn't kill off the idea of a website fronted. It created new workflows and new dedicated roles. NFT's, meanwhile, was very much a trend that fizzed out to little affair.
Us still talking about how "everything is changing" but not about the actual tangible changes very much proves we're in "trend" mode. How will that evolve if/when the bubble bursts? No clue, it's anyone's guess. Not much can change, we may instead ditch giant frontier models for lean open weight models. It could be regulated into the ground and never used on front-facing products because of all the disclaimers needed for that.
Nothing is set in stone, though. That's for sure. Last year people were gloating about how they never needed to code again, and then token-based pricing quickly had those reigns pulled in.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentAKA, already own enough capital to take loans out from the banks and take risks as an entrepreneur.Try to be in a position where you can straddle the full pipeline from customer interviews and market evaluation to database optimization.
AKA, already own enough capital to take loans out from the banks and take risks as an entrepreneur.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link Parent"working" is a generous interpretation here.it can be used to create working vibe-slop clones of proprietary software.
"working" is a generous interpretation here.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentAnd I guess in 5-10 years of stalling in courtrooms we'll get an answer to such questions. For now, continue to break everything.It's clean room as long as you did not have any leaked source code or documentation you're going off of.
And I guess in 5-10 years of stalling in courtrooms we'll get an answer to such questions. For now, continue to break everything.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentAnd I guess in 5-10 years of stalling in courtrooms we'll get an answer to such questions. For now, continue to break everything.It's clean room as long as you did not have any leaked source code or documentation you're going off of.
And I guess in 5-10 years of stalling in courtrooms we'll get an answer to such questions. For now, continue to break everything.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentPlenty of teams of someone have done this for decades. GIMP, Photopea, Affinity. The world is not scarce on competition to Adobe. That's what seems so myopic to me here: the issue with dominating...But eventually someone will. Probably a small team of someones. And when that happens, regardless of what you think about AI, it will be great for creatives.
Plenty of teams of someone have done this for decades. GIMP, Photopea, Affinity. The world is not scarce on competition to Adobe. That's what seems so myopic to me here: the issue with dominating software has nothing to do with a lack of talent working on competition. I thought we learned that when Facebook actively became more hostile to use but its dozen competitors gained zero traction (which includes big players like Google and Microsoft). "They are not good enough" is just code for "I do not want to inconvenience myself learning new tools despite hating my current workflow"
Now even if all that was missing was "make it EXACTLY like Adobe but free"... well, we'll be under years of lawsuits over trademark (maybe not copyright, but trademark) disputes. There's a reason competitors did not strive to make the UI/UX too similar. Some (like GIMP) have different philosophies. Some (like Afffinity) do not want to risk a potential legal battle with a billion dollar corporation. These are not dumb, untalented people; they simply do not want to re-invent the wheel like such vibecoders for very good reasons.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentThat's a large 'if' that has largely gone unproven in the last 4 years. People love touting about using the AI, but not much about how what it makes is doing. It's rarely about the result and...if you're able to use that springboard to continue development.
That's a large 'if' that has largely gone unproven in the last 4 years. People love touting about using the AI, but not much about how what it makes is doing. It's rarely about the result and mostly about "wow I made this in X hours/days!".
Okay... so the ROI should be humongous, right? If you could even get it out to a few dozen customers it should be worth the development. Maybe testimonials. But we never real real financials. Lots of toys, very few tools.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentNo skin in the game. It's a bit of sunk cost fallacy, but you taking the time to make your art, or develop your project, or even build some Minecraft building gives you emotional investment....No skin in the game. It's a bit of sunk cost fallacy, but you taking the time to make your art, or develop your project, or even build some Minecraft building gives you emotional investment. That's often toted as dangerous, but it's also what gives us passion and pride over our crafts.
Making this raggedy prototype gives us none of that. Some may not even feel they truly "own" such a project. So why care about support?
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentIf professional art is anything like professional programming, it will work fine for a week with common tasks. Then you do something very slightly exotic and the program completely falls apart....If professional art is anything like professional programming, it will work fine for a week with common tasks. Then you do something very slightly exotic and the program completely falls apart. And then you fall apart trying to figure out what the heck happened as you retrace your steps, check your configuration, reboot processes and the OS, and any potential productivity you gained was lost over this specific "time-saving" task.
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Comment on New York City is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions via new click-to-cancel rule in ~society
raze2012 Link ParentIndeed. Same people who did this at a federal level (only to be ousted by Trump and having the rule repealed) were recruited by Mamdami to do this on a local level. It's a shame how few government...Indeed. Same people who did this at a federal level (only to be ousted by Trump and having the rule repealed) were recruited by Mamdami to do this on a local level. It's a shame how few government "servants" seem to actually be interested in serving the people.
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Comment on Protests spread across France, growing from school demonstrations (gifted link) in ~society
raze2012 Link ParentAfrican proverb, but it seems France is rather intimate with this concept as well. When status quo is painful, revolution is inevitable. Even if the results are worse than before, any change in...A child rejected from his village will burn it down to feel its warmth
African proverb, but it seems France is rather intimate with this concept as well. When status quo is painful, revolution is inevitable. Even if the results are worse than before, any change in the heat of the moment will feel like progress.
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Comment on Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentA browser tool is a bit different from a game. no game can ever be "exactly Runescape". But you can have all your needs satisfied in a tool and stop looking. Besides: They don't do that because...All Firefox needs to do is ask itself why people moved to Chrome (because at the time Firefox had become slow, buggy, plugin hell) fix that, and tell everyone you’ve fixed it.
A browser tool is a bit different from a game. no game can ever be "exactly Runescape". But you can have all your needs satisfied in a tool and stop looking.
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They don't do that because they are a publicly traded company and catering to existing users is simple a way to slow the decline, not prevent it. Eventually users move on or even die out, so you got to make sure new users are coming in to prevent that natural attrition.
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Moats are hard to dig out of. Not many people are necessarily itching to switch browsers, so as long as they are fine with Chrome, they will keep using it. Even if all the reasons they fixed FF are addressed. You can't really do much there outside of making a shiny new feature or waiting for Google to screw up and capitalize on the outrage.
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Comment on OpenAI hacked Australia's Medicare portal in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentThis is part of why there's legitimate discussion circles to not consider software as "engineering". Engineering also means taking accountability and taking the most honest efforts to avoid...This is part of why there's legitimate discussion circles to not consider software as "engineering". Engineering also means taking accountability and taking the most honest efforts to avoid disaster. A bridge breaking or faulty wiring or sensitive operations like aerospace cost lives if there's a tiny error (at times, fatal errors that bring awareness of natural phenomenon).
Software, meanwhile, is treated like playing russian roulette. We keep pulling the trigger and get surprised when a bullet comes out, or if we forget about the bullet in the chamber. Yes, accidents happen, but we can prevent a vast majority of them with basic checking before pulling the trigger.
But we all know Sinclair's quote by now: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.". Having regulations made (or in this case, torn down) by those who will never suffer any consequences was always going to end badly.
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Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games
raze2012 Link Parentspecifically Especially in these times, I don't think we should suppress skepticism and simply ignore it. If you strongly suspect something is AI-generated (I left another comment here saying I...What are you pushing back on?
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Either trust the developer and play, or don't and move on. That should be the end of it.
Especially in these times, I don't think we should suppress skepticism and simply ignore it. If you strongly suspect something is AI-generated (I left another comment here saying I don't), the very least you can do is report the game. If it prompts Valve to investigate and it finds nothing, that's more pressure than "just ignore it".
witch hunts don't really get anything done, nor does is implant the right incentives on neither side. No company ever looks back thinking "damn, I deserved that ratio", while having another company push down on them will at least prompt stronger means to avoid that. But at the same time, the act of "giving awareness" always comes with the non-zero risk of a witch hunt. I don't think that risk is worth avoiding communication as long as your message is framed with good intentions (which I believe OP had).
hopefully you get the facts you are looking for.
I can't do much myself on a systematic level. So it's best to focus on what I can do to practice what I preach. I simply want to remind people that there are tools built into pretty much all large websites that can be utilized and you don't need to rely on a mob to solve your problems.
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Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games
raze2012 LinkIt looked so off-putting from the second I saw TGA trailer way back when. Instantly put off and simply avoided it. I can't definitively say whether or not it's gen-AI, but the TGA trailer...It looked so off-putting from the second I saw TGA trailer way back when. Instantly put off and simply avoided it. I can't definitively say whether or not it's gen-AI, but the TGA trailer definitely left that taste in my mouth. Looking at Steam trailer footage, I don't think it is. But the art direction of the creatures is all over the place.
I don't even like Palworld per se, but Palworld at least feels like there's a "style" there among the creatures (that clashes with the human and environment. But I digress). Not so much from what I've seen in Aniimo. You'll have this mostly pastel-esque lighting on the environment, then some very jarring creatures that clash with one another.
But not because of the designs. It's the materials and lighting. The "direction" makes the creatures feel like they are being grabbed from a dozen different games and plopped into this world Together like Fortnite. Ironically enough, this makes me less skeptical of AI use because grabbing and kitbashing random assets together is a very human thing to do, especially for a Chinese studio.
As for the genre, I'm (very very patiently) waiting for Azur Promilla to scratch that gacha monster-raiser itch for me. So I understand the appeal. I'd just rather wait for a release from a studio (also Chinese!) that has proven to be more to my taste.
It's always the wage. This "no one wants to work anymore" gaslighting is employed everytime to try and shift blame to immigrants. It's disgusting.
let that hard manual labor pay rent and you'll get some candidates. Let it build up savings and you'll have lines around the block. This generation is simply better than ever at being aware of the competition and know they don't need to work the fields or be homeless.