I built GTA Toronto + Uber driving with Codex for my new Modretro Chromatic that i got from OpenAI devday two weeks ago.
the most fun ive had in year. pure GTA II vibes. game is open source here:
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its a sign of huge disrespect in my culture if im on my google doc and you fucking adding anything on it
is it haram to vibe code during ramadan
Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer
I get off on telling ppl to talk to my instinct and email me so my dot can respond
Dot has helped me followed up on all them emails i otherwise would be procrastinating on
enterprise maturity arc with AI = Dunning–Kruger
Stage 1: building with agent’s internally
Stage 2: a lot f*kin’ harder than we thought
Stage 3: take our $$$, here’s what we want; let’s go
Chatgpt mobile app for codex cloud threads break quite a lot for long running tasks
@thsottiaux
Toronto->sf: 69% young waterloo type people
Montreal->sf: 34% wheelchair bound and 70+
Theres this local tech company that built a good enough agent harness a while back but never took off/had momentum. I realized only the founder/curated team that’s a little crazy that can move mountains to create crazy momentum. They didnt have that kind of ppl.
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IMO the only tests you should have in the age of coding agents are, in order of priority:
1. Full E2E tests. Nothing mocked out at all. Can even be something that runs in prod on test accounts via Playwright or equivalent.
2. Integration tests. Agents make more mistakes as things bleed between data/API boundaries where schemas can drift.
3. Golden tests. This helps ground the code with real examples of data, and can be used as regressions against edge cases.
Unit tests are bloat 99% of the time if you’re using a frontier model since they’re smart enough now to get the implementation (and subsequent iterations) right on the first shot, so they only add bloat at this point.
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I’m very invested
20hrs into building GTA on @modretro chromatic
claude cloud sessions is kinda useless because it keeps asking for permission every 5' or so to run SQL. @trq212
would have been insane to think just 3 years ago
the codex modretro is a great excuse for super deep game mechanics with simpleton graphics, which is usually the best kind of games
updates on our homebrew bookeeping software:
- ollama support and can run local 100% (free AI powered quickbooks)
- works with openjev
- open-sourced next week
