Ahhh this takes me back to playing on various private UO and DAoC servers. Part of that experience is why I am a developer today. Cool name for a project like this along with the art!
Same here! tinkering with private servers is what got me into programmig in the first place. There's something about reverse-engineering a game protocol at 15 that hooks you for life. Thanks for the kind words on the name and art!
Most of my sick days in high school were after big Ultima Online patches dropped, I believe, usually on Tuesdays. A neighbor had much faster internet - I think his dad did work from home? - so I'd download the patch onto a ZIP drive and sprint back home. Then spent the day debugging changes (client changes and network/protocol changes) with others on IRC to get SphereServer to connect again. Learned so much.
In the very, very early days I had a 6ms ping to my server on a then high bandwidth connection. This was when most players were at best on a 28.8 modem with multihundred ms ping times. I remember being able to easily outrun people who were on horses.
My roommate and I could sit next to each other and between the combination of our connection and the advantage voice communication provided for coordination was an enormous advantage. We spent a lot of time in PK hot spots pretending to be lagged newbies, only to give the PK gangs a rude awakening when they'd come to grief us. Turns out a pair of toons who were multi-GMs when most weren't a single GM yet, who were lighting fast compared to others, and with perfect coordination made short work of your average PK gang back then
I agree with your assessment, as a full stack dev with CS degree that just kinda waltzed into Salesforce for the last 5 years. Claude is more capable at delivering the customizability that Salesforce tried to offer with it's "clicks not code" approach. the only thing these CRMs have going for them is enterprise entrenchment.
I also work at Stripe and will be recommending that we migrate our CPQ off of Salesforce for various reasons (agent force is butt, platform limits are silly in 2025 - 6 meg max heap size for a backend transaction?????).
One failed initiative does not mean the company is bad. In fact if a company always succeeds, Im suspicious that they’re aiming too small. Is there something else that made you doubt them?
Right, there's always room for the "exception" in startup land. But majority will fail right? For me personally, it just wasn't worth the risk to jump, especially given this surge of AI right now. Also, already working at a fintech company has shown me that margins can be razor thin/tiny at times, depending on the product. For Mesa, I am guessing they relied upon interchange fees, partnership/commissions, and interest income.
Agree with this. I'm a software engineer that has mostly not had to manage memory for most of my career.
I asked Opus how hard it would be to port the script extender for Baldurs Gate 3 from Windows to the native Linux Build. It outlined that it would be very difficult for someone without reverse engineering experience, and correctly pointed out they are using different compilers, so it's not a simple mapping exercise. It's recommendation was not to try unless I was a Ghrida master and had lots of time in my hands.
FWIW most LLMs are pretty terrible at estimating complexity. If you've used Claude Code for any length of time you might be familiar with it's plan "timelines" which always span many days but for medium size projects get implemented in about an hour.
I've had CC build semi-complex Tauri, PyQT6, Rust and SvelteKit apps for me without me having ever touched that language. Is the code quality good? Probably not. But all those apps were local-only tools or had less than 10 users so it doesn't matter.
That's fair, I've had similar experiences working in other stacks with it. And with some niche stacks, it seems to struggle more. Definitely agree the more narrow the context/problem statement, higher chance of success.
For this project, it described its reasoning well, and knowing my own skillset, and surface level info on how one would start this, it had many good points that made the project not realistic for me.
Disagree - the timelines are completely reasonable for an actual software project, and that's what the training data is based on, not projects written with LLMs.
Claude gives advice on complexity for humans. Many times it has tried to push me away from what I’m trying to do because it is difficult, time consuming or tedious. I push it through its resistance and 10 minutes later it’s done.
I have this in my CLAUDE.md now.
“We are here to do the difficult and have plenty of time and there’s no rush.”
It's 2025, not 1995 or even 2005. Installers for apps like this are tiny for cloud storage today. Cloudfront's recent flat tier pricing would even probably do the trick. free tier is 100gb data transfer a month, 1m requests. If that doesn't work, Pro is 50 tb, 10m requests, that's 15 bucks a month.
Yes - why are these adjectives even coming up at all? There are alternatives that would probably make your point in a succinct manner without being sexist.
Moonlight is great, but be careful about overestimating how fast video decoding is. I would get 10-40ms additional latency, jitter doing moonlight from tv, vs running it on Linux on my mini PC homelab hooked up to the TV, my decoding/network latency was like 1-2ms for a frame
++ for the LG homebrew community. The homebrew store literally has an app now that will auto refresh your dev token so your TV doesn't go out of devmode and uninstall all of your home brew. Used to have to setup a cron job to renew/refresh dev mode.
All my random open source contributions/projects I think have helped. Especially since I've been working in a niche like Salesforce, it really gives me a leg up to show that I've built stuff in nodejs, c#, etc.
The other gain is that I learned a lot from those, and that will show through in an interview regardless of whether they looked at my GitHub or not.
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