They are for 2D — classic animated sprite sheets with numbered frames. 3D models are static for now. The video model switch should help with smoother 2D animation between frames.
For now yeah becasue you need to direct the Ai correctly still. Either with planning or you need to fix it's mistakes and identify when it did something correct but not optimally.
I was laid off from Atlassian this/last week. Since then I've been playing Satisfactory for 12 hours a day.
Crazy thing is, I delivered optimizations that saved 1m USD over the last 12 months, with another optimization in-flight that would save another 1m USD. I thought that was enough to protect me from layoffs/PIPs - I guess no one was counting.
AI is just an excuse for layoffs which IMO CEOs are trying to use to recover share prices from the SaaS-pocalypse. Looks like layoffs aren't hitting the same for stock prices as they once were.
It's a fools errand to ever believe in job security. Even if you're absolutely right on your importance, management can always remain stupid longer than you can remain employed.
It truly feels like a farce. I've survived a few rounds of layoffs and I've seen both shitty engineers and our best engineers let go. I assume our good ones are too expensive? It seems like HR just does some spreadsheet magic to grab people without any regard for performance or title.
Not OP, and nothing makes it impossible, but from my experience in big companies, being visible is way more useful than being productive.
I got further faster by just answering emails right away than by churning out code. I got constant kudos, which got me promoted, and invited to more meetings, which led to less actual work. All because I just started replying to emails sent to our group. In retrospect it feels pretty perverse.
In lean companies and startups...perhaps not so much.
Having worked in a very large company for the past two decades now, one of the best career advices I ever got is about how you measure if you are a „good employee“.
It is very simple: you are a good employee if your boss(es) think you are.
That’s it. Nothing else matters in terms of career advancement or retainment.
So just iterate on it? Your complaint is that the model isn't one shotting the problem and reading your mind about style. It's like any coding workflow, make it work, then make it nice.
No, I never expect AI to one-shot (if I see such a miracle, it's usually because I needed a one-liner or something really simple and well documented, which I can also write on the whiteboard from memory).
Try iterating over well known APIs where the response payloads are already gigantic JSONs, there are multiple ways to get certain data and they are all inconsistent and Claude spits out function after function, laying waste to your codebase. I found no amount of style guideline documents to resolve this issue.
I'd rather read the documentation myself and write the code by hand rather than reviewing for the umpteenth time when Claude splits these new functions between e.g. __init__.py and main.py and god knows where, mixing business logic with plumbing and transport layers as an art form. God it was atrocious during the first few months of FastMCP.
Human code is still easier to review. Also, I program 80% of the time and review PRs 20% of the time. With AI, that becomes: I review 80% of the time, and write markdown and wait 20% of the time.
Idk if that's universal, when I run into people who struggle with English or just don't know it my first thought has never been this is a stupid person.
I think we might need another term for working both remote and with a flexible schedule. I'm working remote, have been at a few jobs, but while my location isn't an office, my schedule is fixed, the same as if I were going in.
Do you not have to be online at a certain time when remote?
I’ve been remote for 6 years now, and did it on and off for a while before that. I’m still woken up by an alarm clock, because I can’t get myself to go to bed at a reasonable time, but have to be online for meetings and stuff and 9am… I think many would prefer 8am, but that’s just a symptom of a broken meeting culture.
For me I just wake up at about the same time every day, and that is ahead of anything on the schedule. It isn't like you might end up sleeping another couple hours. I physically can't sleep past 8 hours or so.
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