Tarryn van der Byl

@nxtrms.bsky.social

cats | dogs | raccoons | game development | synthwave | sci-fi | cyberpunk | other stuff shitposting live from cape town, south africa

Quoting myself from a day ago - "The problem is thinking that the product of a programmer is code. It isn't, really, the code is just the final stage. The actual valuable thing the programmer produces is the underlying mental model. Without that, the code is just tech debt"

Just dropped out of a launch call with teams from Los Angeles to Joburg and Cape Town to Melbourne, to press the buttons and launch Mixtape. We laughed, we cried, we hurled. Working on this game has been one of the most amazing experiences of my entire life.

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You’ve travelled back to 1989 to stop a man named Jeffrey Epstein from committing crimes in the future First reason for somebody to invent a time machine right here ⏳

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.