I had a thought the other day regarding engineering teams weighing the decision to “build vs buy”:
With the rise of genAI code generation tools, there will be a tendancy to choose to build in-house, rather than buy without considering that getting to v1.0 is “easy”, but maintaining and evolving the codebase is always the hard part. Teams may find themselves having to become experts in fields they have no business being in, just to maintain their codebase.
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I recently wanted to setup GitHub Actions on one of my personal Rails 6.x projects. I realized I’d been paying for 3,000 minutes / month, and not using them on my personal accounts! Yet once...
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As I was building out my latest game, I began to add dozens of enemies that needed to gradually move towards the player via a simple 2D pathfinding algorithm. When I play-tested the level, my...
While on the Godot Engine Facebook page, I saw a request for some assistance building a camera system like Super Mario Bros for the NES. I figured I would need a Camera2D node, that constantly...
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