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I don't code anymore (broke my brain in the 1990s) but I'm fascinated by the multi-pass magical process that serious AI coders go through to turn vibecode into something robust, secure and functional.
Maybe when the industry isn't run on petrol turbines, and depleting the water tables, I'll give it a go.
See this is where I'm like. For $9,000, you could have just purchased a Switch and a legit copy of OOT. Heck, you could get a vintage N64, old cart, and a CRT TV for less. What is this kid doon??
I'm a bit confused. Is this the OOT port Ship of Harkinian or a different port?
I mean idk this is like the perfect use of AI slop, what adult professional dev is gonna dedicate his life to emulating game systems? Let this kid with claude have at it.
Pay to Develop , it's not new thing, there are personal trainer and private doctor/physician too.
Comparing Claude to a personal trainer is not an adequate comparison.
The personal trainer doesn't train for you, he or she teaches you movement patterns and educates you on proper form and maybe also on healthy dietary choices.
It's more like if he was paying for a personal coding tutor, which Claude or ChatGPT can theoretically be as well, but that doesn't seem to be what he did here.
i don't compare them based on capability , but the fact both need some sort of payment so they are available for you, there are also free trial of course , at least once i think.
If you think calling AI users "creators" is bad, then let me remind you it was normalized the moment people called ~~Steve Jobs the creator of Apple computers and the iPhone~~ Edison the creator of anything at all. Edison was the first archetypical techbro, and Steve Jobs was the first modern techbro.
In my opinion, there is an important difference, though: The software that people "create" with Claude, ChatGPT or whatever could have been created by most competent and skilled software developers, i.e. nothing ground breaking or world changing has been created by people using Claude or ChatGPT (at least not as far as I know, please correct me if I am wrong). However, this is different with regards to the iPhone or the light bulb, they were truly historic and world changing "creations".
As far as I am concerned, it doesn't really matter if you were the true "creator" of a certain product, software or invention, as long as you manage to sort of market the product and convince other people of the value of said product or invention (and as long it holds actual value to people).
This has been going on for centuries. Scientists’ staff doing all the work of proving an idea. Same for physicians. Artists, also…a ton of people in their employ doing the actual art executing the artists’ ideas. The big name gets the glory while those under them hope to get noticed enough to go out on their own and repeat the process. These days it still happens, plus we have managers and CEO’s taking credit for the employees doing all the work of making something happen. Hell, I bet the guy that had the idea to build the Pyramids had hundreds of what constituted engineers and artisans of the day build the things and said “Look what I made!”
Speaking of, if you ever get to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, make sure to check out the tombs of the craftsmen who actually built the tombs for the kings. They're just outside the Valley of the Kings, arguably just as beautiful, and mostly ignored by tourists.
The "developer" is claude the 14 yr old is just the stooge that paid 9000 dollars for it.
Some random 14yo kid has 9k dollars to spend on Claude code. Fuck my life.
Subscriptions cover vastly more than an equivalent amount of API cost. $9k is probably just a few months of the $200/mo sub
I didn't have $200/mo at that age either
By 15 I could earn $200/mo after school saying "you want fries with that?" into a microphone and running a cash register for a drive-thru, and that was at $3.35/hr minimum wage. In Florida minimum wage is $15/hr now, so $200/month is less than 2 4 hour after school or one 8 hour weekend shift a week, even after taxes.
The $9K figure, as I read the summary, is total spent by all contributors to the project, and if they manage to develop a full commercial quality port for under $100K they've beat what the industry players would spend on developer time for the same job by a wide margin.
Okay
"Even a 14 year old shit coder can use AI to port a console game to PC"
Fuckai: Doesn't look like anything to me
So the developer is Anthropic 🤷♂️ If I order some specific pizza, am I the cheff who made it?
I mean, if you're ordering Pepperoni, no...
If you're ordering a pumpkin curry with sweet corn on feta/pesto base, and your friends don't vomit when they try it, you just might be the cheff.
the developer is Anthropic
More like the developers are the people whose code Anthropic stole