Ron decided to learn to code in 2024. He proceed to use AI to vibe-code a game called Letterlike. It’s now one of the top ranked mobile games on Steam and the #1 paid word game on Android.
He tells his story on this reddit post.
Vibe coding is here. People are building viable commercial products with less than a year of coding experience. Sure this isn’t a solution that needs a lot of security like an online service, but here it is.
The very controversial and firebrand issues/actors behind the Snow White remake has turned into a box office disaster and resulted in an apocalyptical round of firing at Disney (and rightly so).
It should tell you something when a decades old IP powerhouse like Disney and all their marketing efforts could only generate 18M views in 4 months on it’s official trailer, and an AI generated parody done by a likely single person YouTube channel gets 1.4M views in 12 days. And the AI content is honestly better.
Personally, I think Wicked AI‘s live version of the Little Mermaid with Danny DeVito is even funnier
Game development is currently on a race to the bottom. It’s an industry of brutal competition – which creates some of the most innovative ways to bring ideas to the market faster and cheaper.
A new method of using low-poly meshes to generate higher quality facial and character animation is looking to replace standard character modelers and animators.
Likely inspired by the many people on X who have for the past few days used ChatGPT to render famous photos and memes in the style of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films, PJ Ace said he spent $250 in Kling credits and in 9 hours had re-created the Fellowship of the Rings trailer.
AI is dramatically changing the creative landscape.
Traditional phone and reservation services are ripe for being replaced by AI bots. We each could soon should have a small army of bots that do all kinds of menial tasks for us. In fact, some are even predicting that AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users. Who wouldn’t like to tell their phone to find them the cheapest flight to Cancun in 2 weeks and have it do all the searching?
To speed up the increasing bot-to-bot interaction and reduce delay and compute required to translate to and from speech, why not let the bots use a faster, less error-prone communication method?
Gibberlink mode is available here: https://gbrl.ai/
The project’s source code is shared on github: https://github.com/PennyroyalTea/gibberlink
Researchers at Zheijang University in Hangzhou have trained a drone swarm smart to fly autonomously through an unfamiliar forest, without a centralized control system. The drones communicated with each other and tracked a man moving through the forest. They published the results in a paper in the journal Science Robotics.
As with all things – this could be used to send drones into collapsed buildings to search for survivors, or used on the battlefield of the future. Since this is already 2 years old, you can imagine how much better such a system is today.
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David Gewirtz reviews a bunch of AI tools for coding; and does some ranking.
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There I Ruined It uses AI to make crazy mashups of the most unlikely singers singing completely opposite songs. Check out Hank Williams singing Straight Out of Compton.
This problem is very serious since AI’s are often trained on Github projects. This means your AI generated code is increasingly more likely to have serious security issues in it.
GitHub is undergoing automated attacks involving the cloning and creation of huge numbers of malicious code repositories, and while the developers have been working to remove the affected repos, a significant amount are said to survive, with more uploaded on a regular basis.
An unknown attacker has managed to create and deploy an automated process that forks and clones existing repositories, adding its own malicious code which is concealed under seven layers of obfuscation.
Given the current scale of the attack, said by the researchers to be in the millions of uploaded or forked repositories, even a 1% miss-rate still means potentially thousands of compromised repos still on the site.
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David Plummer re-created the classic game Breakout using Grok 3 AI. It generated a Javascript program that can be played in a browser. He even shared the prompts and code on github.
Another score for AI heavily augmenting the need for programmers.
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