The Internet Is a Magic Time Machine of Humanness.
I'm a very amateur hobbyist programmer/ game dev.
I heavily rely on tutorials (written, not video) to learn new ways of doing things. When I get stuck on something, I'll throw a question in to the search bar and quite often get an answer.
I refuse to use the token prediction machines for anything, so I have to rely on good old fashion forums and blogs.
Yesterday I was having a lot of trouble with a path finding algorithm. I slept on it, woke up, thought I had a fix, still didn't and began scouring the web.
I came across a five year old Reddit thread where someone presented and explained an idea that I loved and really wanted to implement.
For one, finding something that someone wrote five years ago that inspires and solves a present day problem is magical in-and-of itself.
But, when I had issues implementing their idea, I took a chance and replied to their five year old comment asking for help.
In a few hours they got back to me with a detailed explanation and a link to their source code, both of which helped me fix the bug I had. I now have a beautifully working flood fill heat map thing that I can use for path finding and whatever else it turns out to be useful for.
There's something to be said that I could have just vibed out much better code than I'm currently writing in WAY less time and have an even higher quality game.
There is something magical in using natural language to make a computer turn your imagination into reality.
But… idk. Call me old school, but I much prefer the human struggle in banging my head against a wall of segfaults and the humanity in reaching out to another human across time and space to help me solve my problem.
Technology in-and-of itself can be wonderful. But only when their's1 humanity in it.
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