> One who thinks that complex software can be "vibe coded", hasn't worked on complex codebases.
I do think that I have worked on somewhat complex code bases. The reason why they are complicated is often "political" (e.g. at some point it was decided that this is the way to go, and from then on the specific abstraction was used. It turned out these wishes were not a good idea, but the code was never re-developed with a "more proper" architecture (also for the reason that removing some insanely convoluted feature would anger some users)).
I see no reason why some (hypothetical) AI couldn't come up with a much better architecture (also good programmers are capable of this). The problem is rather "getting this architecture through politically"; for some reason "AI suggested/created it" is much more socially accepted by managers than "programmer X considers this change to be necessary" (I cannot understand why).
it can but it will take one person just as long as a small team without "AI" and that one person will carry all the frustration, doubt, all the to do lists and imaginary pin boards and all that other stuff programmers carry around in their heads, at work and back home. have fun with all that.
side note: indie games are not complex software.
and most "overvalued" and "impossible" and "walking it back now" comments are true in as many cases as they are not true and I really do not understand these commenters. smart people should not fall into the same category as people who think that "nobody cares" because they never met devoted lawyers, investigative journalists and law enforcers passionate about justice AND law. it's all so weird, man ...
You don't need any reports to understand this. Right after the initial tariffs were introduced I compared the prices on Amazon for some items I was buying from EU - the prices increased by 20%.
A while ago I made a game for iOS that simulates vehicles and drifting. It was built in SpriteKit but very easy to do in any 2d game engine. The idea is: you put two wheels in front, connect them to the rectangle car shape with pin joints and then you apply force to the wheels. The angle of the force is very easy to calculate:
x = force * cos(bodyRotation + wheelRotation)
y = force * sin(bodyRotation + wheelRotation)
- I enjoyed the immediate start
- skid particles are practical
- game looks good
- it’s too difficult for me; I’d like a “zen” mode that doesn’t reset when I hit a wall.
Thank you! I like the game too, but today it doesn't really make sense to publish games. I believe there are over a million of them on the App Store and the usage is declining anyway - people spend more time watching TikTok these days.
Regarding how I managed to get 22 ratings - it's just organic discovery, I think I get around 1-3 downloads per day. On every other session I would ask users to leave a review. I also cross-promote this game through my other games, but that doesn't help a lot.
By the way, for anyone thinking of increasing organic discoverability some pro tips:
1. Try to decrease crash rates to 0. Ideally 99.9% crash free sessions.
2. Try to increase user retention - the more often user re-open your app, the more likely apple algorithms with rank your app higher.
3. Similar to 2. but the metric is time spent in the app. Try to increase it too.
"The court held that merely clicking on a download button does not show consent with license terms, if those terms were not conspicuous and if it was not explicit to the consumer that clicking meant agreeing to the license."
I'm not a lawyer but I think even if you offset the legal responsibilities to the user by alerting them with copyrights prompt it's still illegal to download youtube videos.
United States v. Auernheimer, 748 F.3d 525 (3d Cir. 2014). Specifically, on page 12, footnote 5, the court states:
“We also note that in order to be guilty of accessing ‘without authorization, or in excess of authorization’ under New Jersey law, the Government needed to prove that Auernheimer or Spitler circumvented a code- or password-based barrier to access... The account slurper simply accessed the publicly facing portion of the login screen and scraped information that AT&T unintentionally published.”
