Ruined may be a strong word but it is much less usable than it was previously. Frequent outages, lots of weird bugs.

It no longer feels like a polished product.

Is this not a government program? Did someone in the cabinet choose to do this?

I’d prefer they not release shoddily build propaganda apps

Thanks for sharing this. Subnautica is one of my favorite games so I was very excited for the sequel and very frustrated by this move by Krafton.

It’s even more maddening that this greedy maneuver was orchestrated based on LLM advice.

I’m glad the subnautica team won the lawsuit. Maybe I can play it now wothout feeling guilty

If a friend gave me bad advice about a major life decision I would stop consulting them for future life decisions

Bad as in malicious or bad as in they offered/you asked for their advice and it didn’t work out? Because if it’s the later, that’s an unfair burden to put on your friends or anyone else. People can give great advice, genuinely want to help, and it still not work out the way you wanted. If you require friends to be 100% with their help, I’m not sure how you have any friends left.

It’s possible to give good advice that doesn’t work out. I have no hard feelings about that.

It’s also possible to give bad advice wothout being malicious.

I have some friends who don’t give great life advice. We’re still friends, they’re just not the friends I go to when I need advice on a big decision.

Yeah I agree.

We have “Cursor Bot” enabled at work. It reviews our PRs (in addition to a human review)

One thing it does is add a PR summary to the PR description. It’s kind of helpful since it outlines a clear list of what changed in code. But it would be very lacking if it was the full PR description. It doesn’t include anything about _why_ the changes were made, what else was tried, what is coming next, etc.

It’s always the last place you look

I really struggle to imagine that working. What does “a new billing system” even mean? How is it better than the old system?

I was being a little facetious - I really dont think AI systems are there yet. It would probably look more like an interview, and there will be some amount of human-required maintenance and subjectivity for a while.

But I think thats what the investors are envisioning.

The AI will link existing APIs with glue code; slurp up data, map it to appropriate CRUD ops with Intuit or something.

We are way beyond the 90s-early 00s wild west where billing can be some random consultants opinions.

It’s both.

The cops need to be held accountable.

But it’s glaringly obvious that if you build tools like this and give them to the US police this is the outcome you will get. The toolmakers deserve blame too.

Yea I stopped reading at this point

I'm still having a lot of fun releasing daily puzzles for my game Tiled Words: https://tiledwords.com

It just won an award! It was awarded Players' Choice out of 700 daily web games at the Playlin awards: https://playlin.io/news/announcing-the-2025-playlin-awards-w...

Right now around 3,500 people play every day which kind of blows my mind!

It's free, web-based, and responsive. It was inspired by board games and crosswords.

I've been troubleshooting some iOS performance issues, working on user accounts, and getting ready to launch player-submitted puzzles. It's slow going though because I have limited free time and making the puzzles is time consuming!

Here's an article with more info about the award: https://cogconnected.com/2026/03/tiled-words-crowned-the-pla...

My wife and I just finished our morning Tiled Words and Bracket City. It's become part of our morning routine. Thanks for it, it's a lot of fun!

That’s awesome, thanks!

Bracket City is great! Definitely one of my favorites

Than you for Tiled Words. It quickly became a morning ritual to complete the daily puzzle. I wish there were more mobile games that are not obnoxious. The idea and the execution are top notch.

My only concern is that there is a buzzing noise if the app is in the foreground and some audio is playing in the background. This is on pixel 9a

Thanks for playing!

Oh interesting, thanks for the bug report! I hadn’t heard that one yet. I’ll look into it

You're welcome, thanks for making it! The noise is intermittent and may simply be CPU/GPU overload and the resulting sound distortions. But it could be something else. It is quite reproducible on my phone.

It may be related to the library I'm using for sound effects

I think I am getting close to a 100 day streak. Thanks!

Awesome, thanks for playing!!

I don't play every day, but I've been a big fan of Tiled and showed it to a number of other folks.

Thank you so much for keeping it going!

Thanks for playing and sharing!

How did you go from 0 users to 3,500? Genuinely curious how people get their games off the ground.

It's been a gradual process over the last 5.5 months. Here are some of the things that worked for me:

- I applied to showcase the game at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo with the Portland Indie Game Squad. They accepted me so I was able to showcase it at the expo for a day. This got me some players right off the bat

- I shared it on HN, Reddit, Mastodon, etc.

- The website Thinky Games wrote an article about it

- The YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic shared it which got a lot of new players. More recently a couple of other YouTubers (Timotab and Stro Solves) have been posting videos regularly

- I link to it from my blog, and this unrelated rant went semi-viral in web dev circles: https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/

- Winning the award gave me more visibility and players

I've also tried using things like Instagram and Discord but haven't had much luck there. I don't really get how those platforms work.

To be honest I'm not great at marketing. I've just been experimenting and seeing what works.

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I would say the most important thing is the game itself:

- I've worked hard to gather feedback and incorporate it into the gameplay.

- I focus on keeping the puzzles fresh and striking the right difficulty level. (Challenging but something most people can do in 10 minutes.)

- I built a sharing feature that ~300 or so people use a day

I think all my marketing would have been useless if people didn't like the game and want to play again and share it with their friends.

I remember seeing this! It was cool, and I will remember to play it more.

Re creating puzzles, does this mean you have to manually do them one per day? Is there a way to automate them ahead of time (as in have an app generate a bunch of puzzles you can pick from or tweak)?

This is something I’ve been grappling with.

I’ve automated parts of the process. Once I have the words and clues I can autogenerate crosswords and pick the best one.

I’m hesitant to automate the creation of the theme, words, and clues though. I worry that the quality would go down but there may be some opportunities to speed up brainstorming there. I’ve been noodling on this.

That's a lot of fun, good work.

Thanks!