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Tommy J. Vedvik retweeted
I’m just going to say it: The number of engineers not using AI coding is approaching zero. We are not talking about it because the public has all the nuance of a witch trial, but I assure you it’s true.
Tommy J. Vedvik retweeted
ok... uh so I'm making a game... it's like if GTA & Apple Maps v1 had a baby
And that baby was a custom built engine that streams in OpenMapTiles (plus some other public domain mapping data) to render the entire earth as a playable open world game
Engine is all C++ with Metal (and Vulcan) renderer - which means this thing runs on ALL Apple platforms... yes even that one (ok not the watch... yet)
Right now it's just a sandbox world. No "game" - just layers and layers of systems. Earth scale procedural weather systems (rain, storms, clouds, wind, KpI, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc) which means you can see them coming from the distance and travel across the landscape in a timelapse. And every building has a procedurally generated interior.
There's also tons of vehicles, skateboarding (with skateparks), snowboarding (with ski resorts & lifts)
Also a photography mode with all sorts of fun goodies
The whole thing is a bit mad. Work's been insane right now and I wind down before bed by going through all of the work Claude has done that day, playtesting, writing up new project plans, and then kicking off the next day's projects across my 3 Macs in my house wirring on this all day with Opus 5.5 (maybe save that explainer for another crazy person Twitter screed)
Anyway, curious what you think. Now I can post my little updates here instead of blowing up all my group chats with the weird ideas I'm trying next.
Its like saying pencil solved paintings
Saying software is dead because anyone can build it is like saying photography is dead now that everyone in the world has a camera in their pocket
Not only is it not dead it's the beginning of the Kodak Brownie moment for software, and we will see an absolute explosion of it
It will be the first generation for who building software will feel no different than using it. This is crazy!
The quality and bar of what we expect from our everyday apps will be raised dramatically, we'll have personal software, we'll have disposable software, and agents will be the foundation for most of it
Tech has always been chaotic and evolving, the people who have been able to adapt and move in front of new opportunities have always excelled, this is nothing new, I'm seeing it now and we'll see it 10 years from now
Find the opportunities in the chaose and disruption, there are countless of them
Tommy J. Vedvik retweeted
Saying software is dead because anyone can build it is like saying photography is dead now that everyone in the world has a camera in their pocket
Not only is it not dead it's the beginning of the Kodak Brownie moment for software, and we will see an absolute explosion of it
It will be the first generation for who building software will feel no different than using it. This is crazy!
The quality and bar of what we expect from our everyday apps will be raised dramatically, we'll have personal software, we'll have disposable software, and agents will be the foundation for most of it
Tech has always been chaotic and evolving, the people who have been able to adapt and move in front of new opportunities have always excelled, this is nothing new, I'm seeing it now and we'll see it 10 years from now
Find the opportunities in the chaose and disruption, there are countless of them
It was a website running in a iframe inside a tweet. I dont get why people think there is some kind of wizardry, and also make sense they removed the possibility.
Tommy J. Vedvik retweeted
the worst way to handle the AI era is rejecting it out of pessimism.. the second worst is blind hype.. stay curious, stay skeptical, keep your own judgment sharp!
AI won't replace people who think, it'll amplify them ✨
Tommy J. Vedvik retweeted
Making products.
Deciding what matters, what doesn't. Developing insights into behaviors. Understanding what people are already doing, how their days actually unfold, where the hassles are, where the emotion is. Feeling what relief and satisfaction and delight feels like. Study awe. Discover the potent point where fun+utility swirl together.
Code was always in service of the things above. And 1000 other things. Now you can get to focus on the things themselves. No more abstrations.
Three.js is cool, but I think it’s the wrong abstraction for AI. Try WebGPU next time. wgpu/Dawn can target the web and Metal on iOS/macOS.
Just use their CLI with unpeel.com. No need for third party harness
Tommy J. Vedvik retweeted
I think Silicon Valley is making a fundamental mistake with personal agents… optimizing entirely for the outcome and forgetting that, for a lot of things, the process is a very core part of experience.
Travel is the obvious example. People will almost always never want “book me a trip.” They want to browse, compare, daydream, change their mind, send options to friends, and eventually book.
And the average person probably has far fewer recurring tasks worth delegating than the AI industry seems to think.
That’s why personal agents feel more like a feature that gets absorbed into existing products than a standalone category.
