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0 pointsvunderba5mo ago0 comments

100%. I find the "LLMs are completely useless" and the "LLMs will usher in a new era of messianic programming" camps to be rather reductive.

I've already built some pretty large projects [1] with the assistance of agentic tooling like Claude Code. When it comes to the more squirrely algorithms and logic, they can fall down pretty hard. But as somebody who is just dreadful at UI/UX, having it hammer out all the web dev scaffolding saves me a huge amount of time and stress.

It's just a matter of tempering one's expectations.

[1] https://animated-puzzles.specr.net

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ggsp5mo ago

Hey, thank you for making this—I really enjoyed playing it and it feels like it fits the mental-reward-between-work-tasks need. It did spin up my M1's fans after a few minutes which is a rather rare occurrence, but I'm guessing that's par for the course when you're working with a bunch of video on canvas. Either way, hope I remember it the next time I'm looking for a puzzle to solve while I take a break :)

JLC4435mo ago

Just thought I'd add to this thread that I also had a lot of fun playing this game, and I don't normally enjoy puzzles on the computer!

A couple of very minor pieces of feedback, if you're open to it: The camera momentum when dragging felt a little unnatural. The videos seemed to have a slightly jumpy framerate and were a bit low-resolution when zoomed in.

Honestly though, those are minor nitpicks. It's a really fun and polished experience. Thanks for sharing!

meowface5mo ago

>and the "LLMs will usher in a new era of messianic programming" camps

Well, this one might still be borne out. It's just silly to think it's the case right now. Check in again in 10 years and it may be a very different story. Maybe even in 5 years.

handfuloflight5mo ago

What do we build now to reap the coming of the messianic era?

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