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Problem solving, from simple to hard. I did a lot of stuff on Codewars, and moved from trivial stuff to more complex in course of a few months. It’s not like I got really far, but for me it’s motivation problem, not a method problem

Fable was “just ask and get it done” quality level, but really I don’t get THAT much bugs - about the same amount that I see irl developers do: get a new feature, find 5 problems, get them fixed, find one more, done. As a recommendation - try to alleviate the biggest problems that ai models have:

• overconfidence - skipping wrong stuff “because they have a note saved that it works” or losing the point where they stopped after a session broke, then making things up. Test Driven Development solves the majority of problems like that - when Claude writes tests first, then it’s not able to bullshit me that the job is done when “everything is red”
• even with large contexts, they run out and stuff gets lost. So if you’re not doing something really compact, make your ai document everything, document the feature they are working on now, make it then offload it to permanent doc when that piece is finished. When the ai will fuck up next time, you can tell it to “go read some docs” and most of the times it will work

Yeah, so if you are a senior dev, the easy work just disappears? Like if you are an experienced carpenter, you will never have to drive nails again, because that’s too easy!

“Sounds”? You are an expert in measuring value by vague comments?
Okay:

• The expense splitting app I made for myself, my friends, and maybe other people (no ide if it will be picked up), after I was managing a giant spreadsheet of our new year’s trip costs. Now my app calculates everything, of any complexity, and it is used.
• The stock trading site has everything that I need from a stock trading site (to look for opportunities to buy), but I needed 3 or 4 before
• The weather app I made not because there’s not enough weather apps, but because each and every app wants your data for 1000s of their partners, so I made my own thing that shows weather.
  If it’s not real life value, then I don’t know

Again, in a corporate setting I see that the “generated stuff” is being read before being approved. And in my private setting I’m working on my projects for myself, I’m not “stealing the productivity”, I obtained productivity. All my life I was coming up with ideas, planning, and managing, but having something on my own wasn’t possible - I can’t hire a dev team. Now I am my team, I’m empowered.

Most of the younger generation devs at my company are using ai coding - mostly for said gruntwork (like writing small functions, api methods, writing what data they want to see instead of complex sql requests), but some are more enthusiastic and use heavier agentic setups. The best validation is that we still have old-school human pull request reviews (enforced by a scary Chief R&D) and if your colleague would see something unreadable or weird, your stuff wouldn’t pass.
I’m a Product Manager and I have several pet products now - all pretty viable (depending on the time I invested in each of course). A stocks website, a money splitting android app (now passing google play review), a weather app. All working, and I have really low coding skills myself

Yeah, I would say it’s quite usual to see a big dip right from the start. It’s just hamsters for whom buying Space X is their first trade don’t know about that

I offered you to read the article because this is what people do. And if you don’t want to read the article, don’t ask other people to chew the information up for you.

It would be an ok question if the post wasn’t an article link. Go read it.

The quick mass adoption is happening in Scandinavia now, and we’re ok

I mean, large software developers are fighting over game mechanics, but they have salaried legal teams, and general need to “not look weak” in terms of protecting their IP. On your scale, I would only take sure-shots, such as protecting your IP’s name on basis of using it long before someone else.
Just in case, I’m not a legal specialist, but I have some general knowledge on this (some from uni, some from working in marketing agencies who create and develop brands, naming, copy, for others)

The trademark question is the strongest - the name can absolutely be protected, especially if there are multiple timestamps everywhere (you posting about it, git, steam, your assets with the game’s name, whatever).
If your game was in some developer’s area on Steam for a long time, just go and write to them right now, explaining the stolen name situation. If it’s not like this, the name issue can be resolved in court in your favour, and you have a case.
But speaking of the game mechanics, story, or anything like that, it’s hard or impossible to prove anything, so you can only rely on your game being better and attracting more people. You do what you do, and the “thief” will give up eventually

Parrot people, obviously (huh, not blocked here as well!)

How to buy from Google and still think you’re an anarchist😎

Who “they”? Security services are not the hive, It’s not like everyone knows everything pr never misses anything. Or do you think it’s like a game where you unlock the “passive listening device countermeasures” technology and suddenly 100% bugs across the country are found and new bugs can’t be planted?

Thanks!

Oh, thanks. I felt something is “unusual” about it.

Was the title written by Trump?

I have 27 inch 2k monitors at work, and it’s already enough

I’m using a 60 inch tv as a monitor to my desktop - I sit in front of it at a distance of about 2m. It feels really nice to have stuff in 4k, so it’s always 4k except the games that are too tough for my 2060 super to give me 60p.