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by flogistonical 6 days ago
> For me, it's "I can do this now; yesterday I could not."

Yeah. More.

Better? How would you be able to tell? Can you show us better? Or only more?

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To me, being able to do something I could not, is unequivocally better.
Cool. Can you show us some great new things you have done with AI?
I'm not going to show you but I'll tell you, because I'm hoping you're asking in good faith and not just being snarky.

With AI, I now have tools to analyze recorded demos from quake 3 and pull metadata from them, match them against recorded match statistics, and most importantly, split a large multi-match demo file into multiple separate matches/files which are all self-contained.

Doing this required the LLM to review the source for q3 to determine how to re-create gamestate and correct various aspects that were non-trivial due to huffman encoding.

I also patched the server to be able to stream demos to attached clients, so multiple people can watch a demo simultaneously. It can now seamlessly switch between demo-playing and game-serving. I've had multiple PRs to the main repo merged for this.

All these are far, far beyond my ability to do by myself, and none of these features/functions were really available in 2026. There are some long-abandoned demo tools out there, but they either don't work, don't compile, or otherwise are windows-only. My demo tools are python, and of course the q3 server code is c++.

These aren't great new things. They're not ground-breaking. They're merely new things I made for me and my friends. And I think it's great.