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I don’t know if any open weight Chinese AI engineers are on HN, but thank you for everything you do for information freedom.

Why are people still upvoting obvious AI slop garbage?

1. Claude couldn’t do a proper fence algorithm for the walls?

2. Controls feel horrible.

3. It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man? You do not move fast enough and the Pac-Man AI is programmed for perfection so it does not make deliberate mistakes for the human player to take advantage of.

4. The tile based movement is not smooth, very stuttery.

Fine for a prototype, but we could do so much better. This is not a particular hard game to code up in an afternoon or even an hour if you’re experienced.


  Why are people still upvoting obvious AI slop garbage?
Because it looks good enough to "pass". People are consuming low quality content all the time.

  It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man?
Not true.

  You do not move fast enough
Not true.

  the Pac-Man AI is programmed for perfection
So is it slop or programmed for perfection, which one is it? :) The Pac-Man's AI is actually not smart.

> It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man?

I caught him! So it's definitely possible. You move a little bit faster than he does so you need to anticipate where he's going.


You don't even need to anticipate, you can just push him towards the bottom and follow, he just goes in a loop so eventually you'll catch up. I caught him first try without thinking of any strategy. The controls are horrid though.

Just down vote and move on. You're helping them generate better slop by providing input like this

> 3. It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man? You do not move fast enough and the Pac-Man AI is programmed for perfection so it does not make deliberate mistakes for the human player to take advantage of.

It's not impossible. I just did. You just have to corner the man into an impossible situation. But I agree on the AI-slop or lack of quality production.


The real point of these posts is karma farming. Posting a good one shot is worth at least a hundred or so upvotes. People need to recognize this for what it is and ignore these kind of things.

What can I buy with all of my karma?

while the common refrain is nothing, what you get with karma is a v.small online recognition boost.

so almost but not quite nothing.


Karma is the only thing you take with you when you die.

What are they doing exactly?

This is why you should self host your VPN.

But where do you self-host it? Most sites that block VPNs also block VPSes

Does that not defeat the anonymity aspect?

VPNs even from big public providers have not been a reliable way to protect anonymity for a while now. Use VPNs for cryptographic security and circumventing region control.

You mean pseudo anonymity, from advertisers mostly?

I had a frank conversation with a hiring manager about it.

What he said was even if we hire juniors, juniors using AI are never going to rise to the level of our current seniors who built decades of experience without AI.

So basically, today’s juniors are not worth investing in. Until society really sorts itself out with responsibile AI usage in a way that still develops independent professional skills, there is no point in hiring juniors. They will just be a more expensive version of whatever AI agent they use, which can be used directly by seniors anyway.

Companies today do not have to really worry about who replaces the seniors, that will be a problem for newer companies in 20 years or so. In time a solution will arrive naturally.


> juniors using AI are never going to rise to the level of our current seniors who built decades of experience without AI

this does not seem to be an argument for requiring junior employees to focus on using AI tools


thats interesting, the HMs where I work love hiring juniors (who pass the bar) because they are so AI-native

the more experienced engineers can help with setting guardrails and mentorship, but the juniors come unconstrained by priors on how to use ai in creative ways to solve all sorts of business problems.


That just sounds like a good way to end up with solutions like AI agents for parsing a text instead of a deterministic regex.

Juniors have no advantage over seniors in AI skills.


I love how the basic expectation of having a job and the life altering circumstance of not having one factors into this not even a little bit

Not sure what you mean, juniors are a poor ROI these days.

They mean that juniors have bills to pay, too.

It’s sad that someone can think about a game for years and never really spend the time to just build it out. This is a very simple game even a CS student could build for an assignment. But now we’re supposed to be impressed an AI can one shot it for $20 dollars.

It sucks how in just a few years the world has decided nothing is worth doing or is just impossible without the use of AI. As if regular human intelligence isn’t enough anymore and it has to be paid for somehow.

No, there is still money to be made in self hosted LLM models. You invest in the AI infrastructure companies, not frontier labs. The bubble continues.

If that’s true, then where is it? Post a link, or YouTube video.

https://archive.org/details/ExplosivesEngineeringPaulW.Coope...

(30 seconds of googling.)

Or perhaps you meant Q clearance nuke stuff? That would be QUITE a bit harder to find and illegal to share. But it’s lack of availability is hardly a counterpoint to the comment you were replying to.


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