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Show HN: Sloptris - If Tetris was like AI-assisted dev(tonyalicea.dev)
4 points by TonyAlicea10 12h ago|5 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 18d ago
I like to say AI is like the super soldier serum from the MCU. Teams take it and either become Captain America or Red Skull, it depends on what you were to begin with.
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by TonyAlicea10 18d ago
The fact that it’s called “the quick pitch” screams Claude-written pithyness pulled from some context that doesn’t match the article’s style (like investment pitch decks).
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by TonyAlicea10 23d ago
We don't run our own unit tests on compiled code because it generally can be trusted. LLMs are an extraordinarily leaky abstraction. Saying "as long as it works and tests pass" suggests that we can test for every possible sce
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by TonyAlicea10 23d ago
I think two things contribute to the trust in LLMs: 1. Decades of generally reliable systems (I trust my calculator because it always says 1+1=2) has trained people to believe what computers say. 2. LLMs "speak" with great confide
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by TonyAlicea10 23d ago
It absolutely might make mistakes. But the skill requires all questions to be based on lines of code with specific line numbers which the human needs to review. That's intentional to serve as a safeguard against hallucinations.
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by TonyAlicea10 23d ago
I mean in the traditional software sense. We trust autopilots to fly planes. Would you get on a plane flown by an LLM?
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by TonyAlicea10 23d ago
As a tech educator I 100% agree. LLMs are not going to become a "new compiler" where we don't have to worry about the code any more. There's a reason we trust deterministic systems. I've been worried about this a
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by TonyAlicea10 25d ago
I’ve done a lot of work with the Office file formats over the years, flipping to .zip and messing with the format manually. Lately, because I’ve made courses with 500+ PowerPoint slides with lots of morph transitions, I iterated to find an
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by TonyAlicea10 1mo ago
GORILLA.BAS got me into programming decades ago. I made an (admittedly partially vibe coded) homage this year: https://gameswithtony.com/gorillas/
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by TonyAlicea10 1mo ago
Google switching to hallucinating AI summaries has been to me an absolutely shocking abdication of care for both their users and their own reputation. It extends beyond search as well. I have had multiple incorrect Gmail summaries that, if
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Presentation in what medium? A screen reader? You’re talking the user-agent stylesheet, which is a particular chosen presentation that I can change with my own CSS. I can make a button look like a link. You’re suggesting aligning to an inhe
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
> Buttons regularly perform navigations. Clicking a logout button navigates the current page to a logged-out one; clicking a “search” button navigates the current page to the query results. This seems to conflate appearance with semantic
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UX-Context Design: The future of UX design and user research?(nngroup.com)
2 points by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago|0 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
All those .BAS files were an education.
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
I did the same in QBasic (and Tandy Color Basic)! I feel like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books were a sort of precursor to programming for a lot of us. Basic if/then/goto.
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
For me the spark is reinvigorated. I can try ideas before I didn’t have the time for, prototype and test and only pursue what proves to be worth the time.
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Same. This was true for so many of us. An open source education.
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
There’s a marked difference in quality depending on context, usage of sub-agents, initial specs, and model-wise a big difference from what Opus would produce and Fable. I’m not saying I’m hand coding, but saying getting good outputs doesn’t
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Funny I made some very similar points awhile back in a blog post, thinking of it in terms of mode collapse: https://tonyalicea.dev/blog/single-mode-burnout/
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Thank you! I tried to add just a little snazz without changing the core.
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
I've made two updates: the wind and round text should be more legible with a slightly transparent background under it. The camera is less whiplash-y and pauses for a moment after the banana hit if it's zoomed out and the zoom in i
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
I understand, I'm not going for accuracy, just suggestion. For someone like you it won't feel right, I totally get it.
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Nope, haven't changed it! I think it's an aesthetic preference thing.
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
I think the first one for me was The Oregon Trail followed shortly by QBasic Gorillas and Nibbles. It was my first step in coding beyond Turtle Graphics on an Apple from even earlier in childhood. Opening up the QBasic source code was eye o
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Code-wise, mostly LLM. I gave it the original QBasic source code so that's not mine either. This experiment was a guidance experiment for me with Fable. Heavy spec and planning architecturally and UX, and strictly no JS frameworks or d
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Yes! Fun things that either you’d never have taken the time to build otherwise, or recreations of things that you know well. Things where you know how they’re supposed to make you feel (like games from childhood), and getting that experienc
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
I did let the LLM handle the mouse and touch aiming for v1. That’s an experiment as I prefer typing in the boxes or using arrow keys. I think it needs tweaking to let you hone in a value better. What are you thinking?
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
Fair. This is a direct port in some areas of the 1991 game, which strategically was more try something then dial it in. I’ll ponder. It’s almost arcade vs simulation in some ways. That is, if you can calculate it too easily then the first p
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by TonyAlicea10 2mo ago
I hadn’t seen the other one! I grew up with this as well. I like the camera grace window idea. I’ve been pondering how to handle the post-hit zoom in. Good call on the wind text. I like the filter (?). I’ll look at your link. Thanks for the

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