Show HN: Waiting for LLMs Suck – Give your user a game

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36 points | by dalemhurley 2 days ago ago

16 comments

  • dataviz1000 2 days ago ago

    That is awesome!

    It would help if you had a video or gif. I did command + shift + 5 on a mac and recorded. Asked the coding agent to speed it up, edit out some parts between timestamps, and put it in the docs. It did all that. I started an issue anywhere on GitHub, clicked the upload button, uploaded it, grabbed the URL, the coding agent did the rest. It was extremely easy. (Not too late!)

    I'm trying to turn my personal webpage into Breakout.

    If you are looking for some high quality simple JavaScript games to incorporate have a look at Jake Gordon's Games [0]

    [0] https://jakesgordon.com/games/

    • dalemhurley 2 days ago ago

      Thank you, added :)

      • xerox13ster 14 hours ago ago

        if these are meant to be spun up cheapy and quickly in the waiting time for token generation, then why not drop a call to it in a div and let us play with them on the github landing page?

  • rosenlykke 12 hours ago ago

    Could also be a quiz or a mini lecture. It knows all about the context you are in and the problem you are trying to solve, so might as well learn something.

    Like many others starting out, I built agents with personalities, multiple roles at each level etc. A great way to burn tokens but not effective at all in producing better outcomes.

    However, one great side effect was the learning I got from seeing the Marc Andreessen agent hash it out with the Ben Horowitz agent etc. That felt like the future of online courses.

  • vunderba 2 days ago ago

    Now's your chance to pull a Namco and file an equivalent patent for "LLM is working" minigames!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_screen#Minigames

    • xerox13ster 14 hours ago ago

      Surely Google has some sort of patent for this due to the snake in the Youtube buffering icon.

      • vunderba 6 hours ago ago

        I wonder if the expired Namco patent was too similar to prevent them from taking a patent out, or alternatively maybe it was just an easter egg and they didn't pursue it.

        Slightly related, I wish my building complex had wall panel mini-games (like trivia), we've got the slowest elevators in existence.

    • dalemhurley 2 days ago ago

      Agh damn, now it is released to the public it is too late.

  • williamjackson 2 days ago ago

    I was really hoping for a gif or two!

  • internetguy 2 days ago ago

    we've reached another level of dopamine-hit chasing....

    • AbbeFaria 2 days ago ago

      Random reward mechanisms have been woven into the very fabric of the digital world, so doesn’t surprise me.

      • dalemhurley 2 days ago ago

        Maybe I should add slots to take it to the next level?

      • dalemhurley 2 days ago ago

        Let’s keep adding more?

    • dalemhurley 2 days ago ago

      Chase the high

  • metalliqaz 2 days ago ago

    where are they hosted so i can play?