Can you guys beta-test my app? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2025, 03:35:55 pm
content: It's not a virus (thay all say that tho).You can download it from my website:www.langdonstaab.caIt's a pacman-ish game.Note: 14.0+ is the new, rewritten version in beta testing.<14.0 is the old, broken version that you should not test because I'm not going to fix any bugs in the old version.There is a .deb file for Linux and a .jar file for all platforms (It's a Java 21 app).I will post a .app "file" (technically it's a folder) for macOS Intel soon.I want to find some potential bugs and concurrency issues, which I know almost certainly exist somewhere.It takes a while to find such things, and I'm also curious how it runs on platforms other than Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.Thanks!GitHub repo:https://github.com/pacman-admin/pacman-rewritten

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2025, 04:20:12 am
content: is it chat-gpt generated code?

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2025, 07:55:46 am
content: Where are the power pills?I played it through about 4 "levels". Once I got killed when there were no ghosts nearby.Sound worked.Using the Linux tgz.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2025, 02:56:28 pm
content: Funny thing about sound on Linux:In order to make the sound work properly, I loop a nearly and effectively inaudible white noise clip to prevent sound issues.Also, closing clips apparrently temporarily breaks playback of subsequent clips on Linux, so I only close the inputstream (I know I should close resources, but I don't know how else I can solve the issue).

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2025, 02:57:34 pm
content: It is not ChatGPT-generated.None of it is.It was all 100% coded by me.Except the Processing Core library.Why do you ask?

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2025, 02:59:45 pm
content: I think I fixed the "random death" issue.Try downloading the latest version.(You can just download the jar file and replace the jar in the app dir if you don't want to download the whole program and runtime all over again)

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2025, 06:36:21 pm
content: Quote from: Langdon on May 16, 2025, 02:57:34 pmMany peoples using AI for modern coding, I'm still not use these modern technologies with AI code generation, but wonder if some of them can be suitable for me.I tried using chat-gpt to analyze assembly code and it gives some result, but it requires quite a lot of manual work. As far as I understand, there are environments and networks now that integrate and do all these manual operations under the hood, giving you a clean tool, but I have no experience with such environments. That's why I'm interested.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2025, 01:41:56 pm
content: AI-assisted coding is an annoying waste of time and resources.AI is literally the least helpful coding "helper".It just makes random guesses.JetBrains WebStorm (which I hate) has this AI coding "helper" and it just like offers random suggestions that make no sense and have no relation to what I'm coding.I disabled it.(Plus JavaScript is annoying sometimes)

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2025, 02:50:12 pm
content: Vibe coding is all the rage.

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2025, 08:52:01 am
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 17, 2025, 02:50:12 pmit reminds me exactly of how I tried to get working code from chat-gpt. That’s exactly what happens - it constantly changes things in the code that weren’t asked for, and fails to properly do what was actually requested.