Lately I’ve been doing a lot of coding using the AI Agent Claude Code. It is a terminal application which allows you to chat to it live while it attempts to code whatever you direct it to. My game Forward Blaster https://github.com/Sevii/forward-blaster was written by AI except for a few places where I edited constants. Needless to say the game includes a lot of loops. But I didn’t write any of them. I never felt the need to leave the AI agent workflow and start manually coding. | Sledgeworx Software
I released a short demo of AI assisted vibe coding to the youtube channel. Basic games like this are one of my favorite use cases for vibecoding. LLMs are pretty good at it and the pay off is quick. Back in my teens I tried to learn programming to make games. I’d have gotten a lot farther if we’d had AI then instead of trying to figure out C++ from a two inch think book!| Sledgeworx Software
In 2023 I was one of the many software engineers whose management pushed them into trying Github Copilot. I was not impressed. At the time Copilot was basically pointless for Java developers. IntelliJ already had Intellisense which did everything Copilot did, but more deterministically. | Sledgeworx Software
For me the most valuable use of Claude as a coding assistant has been how it makes getting started much easier. Usually, to program a swift game I’d have to spend a couple hours breaking into swift development and building up my program off of examples. Claude was able to create a basic version of the game I wanted off of a detailed prompt. It didn’t manage to create the game in one shot, I had to edit the code a bit to get it to run. But it turned a project that would have taken me a few...| Sledgeworx Software
If you’ve ever worked with PlantUML or Mermaid before it’s easy to forget the domain specific language used to build the diagrams. You sketch out your whiteboard diagram, discuss it with coworkers and are ready to start on your architecture document only to sit there stumped trying to remember how to convert your drawing into PlantUML. | Sledgeworx Software
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Key Performance Indicators are a common business practice. They are a quantifiable measure of performance for a specific objective. Occasionally, I am asked to create my own KPIs as an individual contributor. I think it is a bit strange, after all I work for the company, you’d think they would tell me what the KPIs are!| Sledgeworx Software
We are in a phase where planning becomes quite difficult. ChatGPT has started a capitalistic AI war. Microsoft swept in to shepherd commercialization. Google is on the back foot for now. Amazon will launch something I have no doubt. ChatGPT style tech would make Alexa viable by solving the fractal conversation problem. | Sledgeworx Software
