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vmykyt commented on No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/jnord

vmykyt · 5 days ago

I have very naive question:

People in comments have assumption that Atropic 10 times bigger than chinese models so calc cost is 10 times more.

But from perspective of Big O notation only a few algorithms gives you O(N). Majority high optimized things provide O(N*Log(N))

So what is big O for any open model for single request?

vmykyt commented on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion · Posted by u/shannoncc

samiv · 8 days ago

As a principal engineer I feel completely let down. I've spent decades building up and accumulating expert knowledge and now that has been massively devalued. Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software. I feel depressed and very unmotivated and expect to retire soon. Talk about a rug pull!

My experience is that people who weren't very good at writing software are the ones now "most excited" to "create" with a LLM.

vmykyt · 8 days ago

Short answer: use your expertise in complex project.

Story: I'm dev for about 20 years. First time I had totally the same felling when desktop ui fading away in favor of html. I missed beauty of c# winforms controls with all their alignment and properties. My experience felt irrelevant anymore. Asp.net (framework which were sold as "web for backed developers") looked like evil joke.

Next time it have happened with the raise of clouds. So were all my lovely crafted bash scripts and notes about unix command irrelevant? This time however that was not that personal for me.

Next time - fall of scala as a primary language in big data and its replacement with python. This time it was pretty routine.

Oh and data bases... how many times I heard that rdbms is obsolete and everybody should use mongo/redis/clickhouse?

So learn new things and carry on. Understanding how "obsolete" things works helps a lot to avoid silly mistake especially in situation when world literally reinvent bicycle

vmykyt commented on Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) noelberry.ca/posts/making... · Posted by u/alvivar

YesBox · 13 days ago

I've been working on Metropolis 1998[1] for +4 years now. Custom C++ engine built with a modified version of SFML 2.5 and SQLite.

Creating my own engine was both a personal and strategic decision for me. I was really worried about running into performance issues with generalist engines, and I did not want the friction of working with someone else's mental model. Pretty sure that friction would have caused so much burnout for me. There's also the long payoff of operating in an environment that you understand top to bottom.

I ignored all the advice about making smaller games first, creating an engine first, etc. Metropolis 1998 is my first game and so far it's working out just fine. But your mileage will vary.. I started development with 10+ years of software experience and fond memories of Rollercoaster Tycoon and SimCity 2000/4.

I only add what I need. There's no level/scene editors (outside of the game being one itself :P ). No scene graphs. Shaders are coded by hand. Right now the entire game is about 45MB.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287430/Metropolis_1998/

vmykyt · 12 days ago

Your screenshots look dangerous i.e. I'm constantly seeking some hiding aliens there

vmykyt commented on Show HN: MicroGPT in 243 Lines – Demystifying the LLM Black Box · Posted by u/madugula

az09mugen · a month ago

Will try that micro got which seems interesting. But what a strange way to show 243 lines of python in 5 columns : https://karpathy.ai/microgpt.html

vmykyt · a month ago

Seems like this is his way to say "my code fits into one screen"

vmykyt commented on The cryptography behind electronic passports blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid

vmykyt · 4 months ago

no one launch Doom yet?

vmykyt commented on Show HN: I built a tool to version control datasets (like Git, but for data) shodata.com... · Posted by u/aliefe04

vmykyt · 4 months ago

That is good start

In (big-)data area the idea of data versioning is flying around for decades. As a current consensus for now is to treat information about your files, which is effectively a data, as a metadata.

Said this while trying to create your own solution is always good, maybe you could look at another solutions, like Apache Iceberg (free and open source).

In particular they have concept of Catalog

While from documentation it may look like to adopt Iceberg you need a lot of other moving part, in reality you can start from docker compose [2] and then manage your data using plain old sql syntax.

It may look lake overkill for your specific needs, still good source to steal some ideas.

P.S. there are plenty of such systems in various form-factor

[1] https://iceberg.apache.org/ [2] https://iceberg.apache.org/spark-quickstart/