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Show HN: Permanent Underclass – Terminal game about AI acceleration (Rust)

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Sometimes it's just better to load "all" the data

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1•PaulHoule•21m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I'm helping my dog vibe code games

https://www.calebleak.com/posts/dog-game/
180•cleak•1h ago

Comments

namuol•1h ago
Nobody cared when I taught my roulette wheel to vibe code :/
selridge•1h ago
STREAM THIS
worldsayshi•1h ago
Does it have personality?
bigbuppo•31m ago
No, but it rarely shits on the carpet.
lelanthran•24m ago
> No, but it rarely shits on the carpet.

What do you mean "rarely"? It still happens sometimes?

bigbuppo•9m ago
The table had a rough life before it found its forever home. Sometimes it gets scared for seemingly no reason.
varjag•8m ago
Roulette is a game of chance.
nine_k•1h ago
Dogs are smart; maybe they are smart enough for vibe-coding if we give them adequate input controls?

But the whole setup reminds me about his blast from the past, when a yucca plant was trading stocks, rewarded by water: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/business/investing-diary-...

wigster•1h ago
goodbye cruel world
jama211•54m ago
Oh come on, what I see here is whimsy and human creativity! Amazing work by OP
InMice•49m ago
woofwoof
shervinafshar•1h ago
Love it. No Infinite Cavapoo Theorem needed. Give Momo a week and she'll have DOOM running on her treat dispenser.
Betelbuddy•1h ago
In the world of vide coding agents, nobody knows you are a human...
djrz•1h ago
The future is so disappointing.
jama211•53m ago
What, people like OP doing incredibly creative and whimsical projects like this?
stoneforger•45m ago
Who is this helping? What is creative about using their dog as a lava lamp?
wiseowise•27m ago
Yes. Hyperscalers promised AI and singularity, instead we got millions of programmers on the chopping block, scammers having a field day generating hyper realistic shit (trump playing hokey, anyone?), and projects like these.
block_dagger•1h ago
A thousand dogs typing on a thousand typewriters...
avaer•1h ago
This seems like a good way to get a feel for a coding model. It's like the images you get out of a diffusion model when fed an empty prompt.
wseqyrku•1h ago
Thought this is quoting Karpathy for a second there
xg15•1h ago
snrf99777655;;+%hn
Dwedit•39m ago
What is this? Did the quadratic formula explode?
1234letshaveatw•17m ago
bad dog
oulipo2•1h ago
Yet the only thing the dog wanted was a cuddle and a frisbee
krapp•1h ago
yeah that's capitalism for you. No treats until you provide value.
jpadkins•58m ago
Amazing. Also very thankful the author included his setup on GitHub. Also the YouTube video is fun to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BbPlPou3Bg
masijo•55m ago
And the most HN title award goes to...
jama211•53m ago
Incredible
bogzz•52m ago
How did this get to the top of the frontpage?
PunchyHamster•50m ago
By nonexistence of downvote feature
w4yai•48m ago
It's funny? I liked it.
bogzz•43m ago
Funny is subjective, I should just have moved on and ignored this but I couldn't help myself, this is so irritating.

It's a prompt that makes an LLM turn iuqefxygn9urg0fh1 into a little Godot game. It's like a slot machine with no payoff, and the dog component is slapped on top of it and makes no difference whatsoever in the project.

krapp•38m ago
It's funny because vibe coders and AI artists think the slop they generate is no less the product of their intellect and talent than with human professionals, but really they're doing little more than stirring the entropy pool in a magic box with terabytes of stolen valor from better more talented people. They're no more an "artist" or "game developer" using AI than this dog is.
alan_sass•52m ago
this is incredible. we need more projects like this in the world!
sho_hn•44m ago
Although I would recommend a more sturdy dog breed, for when the angry mob that can't buy RAM sticks and SSDs this year shows up at the front gate.
InMice•51m ago
From everyone needs to "Learn to code" to "Just have your dog vibe code it"
PunchyHamster•49m ago
Better figure out how to replace management and HR dept with dogs
notxorand•44m ago
gonna be good stuff tho. dogs are mostly lovelier
sho_hn•48m ago
I for one am all in on DiL (Dog in the Loop) engineering.
oxag3n•46m ago
Reminded me an old joke about Bill Gates from late 90s:

"One coder got an insight that Bill Gates builds his products by typing with his butt, compiling and delivering it.

The coder typed for 20 minutes like that, compiled, ran, and got an output:

Only Bill Gates can code like this."

Not a joke anymore.

cheeseomlit•45m ago
'Ewe Heard Me!' reminds of that looney toons sheep raider game on ps1. And it's exactly the kind of game I'd expect a dog to make
kketch•44m ago
Really amazing work, congrats!
with•43m ago
the real takeaway is buried at the bottom: "the magic isn't in the input, it's in the system around it." random keystrokes producing playable games means the input barely matters anymore. we're basically at the point where the engineering is in the scaffolding, not the prompting.
ajspig1•26m ago
+ Also the fact that the Memory.md file was a hindrance to the quality of output
otabdeveloper4•17m ago
> the engineering is in the scaffolding, not the prompting

Well, yes. Feeding random tokens as prompts until something good comes out is a valid strategy.

visarga•40m ago
You can automate Momo with a rng.
Windchaser•16m ago
can you automate love, visarga?
4b11b4•40m ago
lol yes "some game designer who only speaks in a cryptic language" . And frankly, I bet this helped build some intuition on dealing with LLM/agent/harness/etc in some strange way that wouldn't have otherwise happened
kseniamorph•39m ago
meanwhile cats: https://socradar.io/blog/dark-web-profile-blackcat-alphv/
oytis•37m ago
It has to be satire. Cute dog though
jimhi•37m ago
Oddly relevant for my multiyear project on getting my dog to vibe code b2b saas products https://dogomation.darefail.com/
gnatman•37m ago
>> On January 13th, I woke up to the news that Meta had another round of layoffs and my role specifically as a research engineer had been eliminated.

Not even 10x dog programmers are surviving in this economy

pixelpoet•35m ago
Who's a good software developer? [scritches]
dustycyanide•5m ago
hilarious, I'm in the office and had to try pretty hard not to laugh out loud
kaicianflone•34m ago
Go Momo go! If you want to hook up multiple dogs and have them reach consensus I'm down. I have a 15 lb havapoo I can volunteer ( he needs to help with rent )
chipheat•31m ago
Could this be done better with one of those dog button mats? The concept is interesting, but, it mostly just seems like an AI trying to interpret keyspam.
funkyfiddler369•25m ago
> like an AI trying to interpret keyspam

'nuff to run most governments nowadays (Europe and US come to mind. 2026 and they have the Space Programs of DIY youtubers with money, whaaaat) so why wouldn't it help a dog helping his dog vibing game(s)?

Windchaser•18m ago
> mostly just seems like an AI trying to interpret keyspam.

aye, but the whimsy is the point!

blibble•28m ago
love the article

slightly concerned tomorrow morning's top HN story will be karparthy telling us how dog-based LLM interfaces are the way of the future

and you'll be left behind if you don't get in now

(and then next week my boss will be demanding I do it)

krlatl•27m ago
DogeCode incoming. People here are already talking about the scaffolding. Let OpenClaws provide the scaffolding and let the dog operate the prompts at $5 per day.

This is a billion dollar idea! No humans. No revolt. No guillotine. Just profits!

funkyfiddler369•22m ago
> Just profits!

Sounds like open communism. No chance, buddy, it's either less or more viking, but not just viking. Pick a camp the profits are for or get surrounded by trashy turd nuggets even Ronald felt enough pity for to give them some poourpes

rprend•26m ago
need to see one of those dog button press setups but connected to Open Claw.
amelius•24m ago
And the game is ... Fetch that stick.
zahlman•24m ago
> The games got dramatically better not when I improved the prompt, but when I gave Claude the ability to screenshot its own work, play-test its own levels, and lint its own scene files.

... Why would it be able to evaluate whether the game is any fun to play?

dirtytoken7•23m ago
this is actually a great demo of how agentic coding changes who can build. the dog obviously isnt coding but the human is learning to specify intent clearly which is 90% of the skill now. the generation part is commoditized. the real skill becomes knowing what to build not how to write it
rob•4m ago
[delayed]
juleiie•23m ago
To be honest I look with scorn at non-dog (human) developers building hobby indie games with AI en masse.

Let me explain.

The nature of the indie game development is pouring your love into a project and thinking about passion first and monetary incentives second.

Noone is thinking "I will make this game and it will make me filthy rich" or if they do they are... strangely minded.

It's like 'mass produced AI local craft'. Oxymoron in itself. Worst of the two worlds.

Where I see AI is empowering single developers to craft things they couldn't before. Not some small slop factory pipeline where you release game after a game everyday drowning steam in your 6/10 slop.

No. This should be ostracized and condemned.

What is proper beneficial to everyone usage is producing a game that is the size and scope that was unachievable for you before.

This is what I am doing. This is how AI is meant to be used. To empower us doing things that weren't achievable for us before.

Obviously dog produced games get a huge endorsement man and get a pass.

rubiquity•17m ago
Dogs are undefeated at reinforcement learning.
GTP•16m ago
> Hello! I am an eccentric video game designer (a very creative one) who communicates in an unusual way. Sometimes I’ll mash the keyboard or type nonsense like “skfjhsd#$%” – but these are NOT random! They are secret cryptic commands full of genius game ideas (even if it’s hard to see).

Your job: You are a brilliant AI game developer who can understand my cryptic language. No matter what odd or nonsensical input I provide, you will interpret it as a meaningful instruction or idea for our video game. You will then build or update the game based on that interpretation.

Here's what you should tell your coworker the first day on the job if you get hired to do something you know nothing about :D

johnnyanmac•5m ago
That is a very succinct way to describe what it feels like to have a job that is cleaning up vibe code. Maybe (just maybe) I'd understand if this was a prototype from someone with zero budget. But you just know they are going to continue to "prototype" once they being you aboard. And many will complain about how slow everything goes because they are used to their fast iterations off of unscalable code.

Its frustrating in an interesting way. With other aspects like machine language people quickly understand that this isn't sufficient for a proper transition and compromise with it. Code being more nebulous doesn't get that grace.

FarmerPotato•16m ago
So the cute lovable dog is an entropy generator.

Next: use hot cup of tea as Brownian motion source. Invent infinite improbability drive.

FarmerPotato•13m ago
Srsly, you need your pet in the feedback loop.

It has to produce a game that Momo wants to play.

Does Momo like to bark at cats? On screens? Introduce a bark sensor as feedback.

Or use a cat. Cats like to swipe at mice on TV. Get a touchscreen and evolve a game for cats.

spelunker•6m ago
I've been trying out vibe coding with my 4 year-old, but they quickly lose interest once we start getting into the "weeds" of implementation. Hey kiddo, which CSS library should we use for your web game?