I knew AI would make me lazy and dependent so I use it sparingly. I’ll ask it to review some code that I have already reasoned through. Just to see what it says. Sometimes it gives good suggestions and sometimes awful ones.

View it as a flawed collaborator, not as a replacement for thinking.

If the ability to prompt code into existence led to the redundancy of programmers then there would be mass layoffs, but there isn't. All the layoffs have been a result of interest rates rising or a lack of projected growth.

I use OpenGL, FTGL, Direct Input, OpenAL and Ogg Vorbis.

You might benefit from having a development partner that holds you accountable.

Curiosity and I like having full control and access to my technology.

Not at all. The ability to conjure code into existence via prompting doesn’t give you a mental model of the program or domain expertise.

A Harvard study concluded that AI coding tools do not lead to an overall productivity benefit, they just transfers the bottleneck from typing to reviewing, which is a lot less satisfying for most of us.

If it gets more expensive in the future then the value proposition will worsen even more.

Unless it improves dramatically it seems like a dead end to me. Short cuts always come at a price.

By stating “from scratch” do you mean without an established game engine. Either way it’s difficult. You need to learn mathematics and polishing the game takes skill and patience.

I would say I can usually code for around 3 hours straight without needing a short break, unless I’m obsessed with a problem than probably 4-5 max.

Thanks spooky, comments like this encourage me to continue my series.

Jordan’s the only player I’ve seen who had to duck his head to avoid hitting the rim.

Physics Programming part 4: The Physics Update Loop

https://youtu.be/9hj2Yz7gkGw

“There is 0 correlation between how good a player is 1-on-1, and how good they are at actually playing basketball. “

Nonsensical. Isolation plays and one on one defence are aspects of basketball.

Kobe. He’s more versatile offensively and is more likely to go on a scoring tear that could single handedly win a game.

Physics Programming part 4: The Physics Update Loop

https://youtu.be/9hj2Yz7gkGw

Top 20 or so. He’s a bus rider.

The Bulls.

Scoring was much lower in the 2000s

He can’t even handle double teams well.

Yes, this is part 4 in an ongoing series. I might have 20+ videos on Physics Programming because it’s my biggest passion.

AI was not used to write the script.