I am asking this for 3 years now. “Where is the vibecoded Photoshop. The vibecoded Excel. The vibecoded Maya. The vibecoded Blender. The vibecoded compiler that compiles itself. The vibecoded database, the vibecoded OS, the vibecoded anything-that-requires-architectural-judgment-to-hold-together. Huh?” https://indiepixel.de/blog/posts/where-are-the-vibecoded-photoshops/
Delegation. “the war system is quite different. Gone are moving individual armies through provinces, replaced by ‘fronts’ to which armies are assigned to either defend or push forward. I think some players are going to be quite unhappy with the… Read More »Miscellanea: Victoria III Confirmed! (First Impressions)
So we are now programming brain cells to play Doom.
Pretending to be rich was historically important. And it seem to be important still. Just recently I have seen a study showing, that about 40 percent of people in the US making more than 500k a year are living paycheck… Read More »Pretending To Be Rich
Seen this at many organizations. “Like many modern efforts to graft a professional army onto a society with both insufficient training time and a lack of care for the underlying social structures, Saruman had created the appearance of a professional… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part IV: Men of Rohan
Also why you need a lot of managers at companies. ” a professional army often needs to be very intensively organized and carefully drilled to be effective. Because they are fundamentally deracinated (meaning ‘uprooted’ in the sense of ‘pulled out… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part III: The Host of Saruman
This is so true. “Given his personality, he strikes me as exactly the sort of very intelligent person whose assumes that their mastery of one field (effectively science-and-engineering, along with magic-and-persuasion, in this case) makes them equally able to perform… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
It is the same with management. “Kings and emperors need what Hannah Arendt terms power – the ability to coordinate voluntary collective action – because they cannot coerce everyone all at once. Indeed, modern states have far, far more coercive… Read More »Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court
Various ways to look at power. “vassals are also not vassals to a title but to a person; a duke with two ducal titles who is deprived of one loses no vassals because they do not belong to the title,… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
Some sober look at current state of the art of AI.