11/25/2025 -Speaking Classic Arcade Games Into Existence Using the Latest AI Language Models

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0:00 sing. I know you're gonna you're you're
0:02 pissed off. I know you're cranky, but
0:03 come on. Come sing, buddy. Come sing.
0:07 Let me adjust my guitar strap.
0:11 All right, that's better. There we go.
0:14 Right. Ready?
0:17 [music]
0:24 [music]
0:29 >> [screaming]
0:47 [screaming]
0:51 >> Champ, what's what's dog for? I've got
0:54 bad breath. Huh?
0:57 I mean, I appreciate the singing, but
1:00 that's a little it's a little ripe.
1:02 You've been chewing on turds? H You've
1:05 been chewing on poop, have you? [music]
1:25 >> [music]
1:34 [screaming]
2:08 [laughter]
2:08 >> What? What are you so ramy for? What are
2:11 you so ramy for?
2:18 >> [screaming]
2:22 >> She came on to him like slow moving cold
2:26 front
2:30 his [screaming] big woman. Then the look
2:33 in her eyes.
2:38 She sat on a stool and he said, "What do
2:42 you want?
2:46 She said, "Give me a love that don't
2:49 freeze her inside."
2:59 He said, "I melted some house in my
3:03 time, [singing] dear.
3:07 But to sit next to you, well, I shiver
3:10 and shake.
3:13 [music]
3:15 And if I knew love, well, I don't think
3:18 I'd be [singing] gay. [music]
3:23 Asking myself if I've got what it takes.
3:31 I do melt your icy blue heart.
3:37 [music]
3:39 Should I stop?
3:42 Turn what's been frozen for years
3:49 into a river of tears.
4:04 >> [music]
4:05 >> Little out of tune on the guitar there.
4:07 What are you going to do? Halfway
4:09 through the song, you hear it and you're
4:10 like, "Ah, that's just awful."
4:13 [laughter]
4:17 Happy Thanksgiving, good people. I hope
4:18 you're home with the family. I hope
4:21 they've put you down for your your uh
4:26 the fact that you're AI positive.
4:28 [laughter]
4:30 I did a little post on the AI salon
4:32 today about that and people are like,
4:34 "Oh yeah, I've already been kind of
4:35 disowned. I'm not allowed to talk about
4:38 it anymore." I'm like, "Invite him to
4:40 Festivus." [laughter]
4:46 Oh, good lord. Good people.
4:50 Champy's in a singing mood tonight. He,
4:52 you know, he's funny. He's He's a little
4:54 pissed off.
4:56 So, here's the thing about Champ,
4:59 and you might expect this being that
5:00 he's a star, famous dog star. Um,
5:08 we, and by we, I do not mean me or the
5:11 kids. We feed Champ
5:16 food.
5:18 that people eat [laughter]
5:21 and and he gets he gets whatever he
5:24 wants. And sometimes it's burgers and
5:26 sometimes it's chicken and sometimes and
5:29 he will eat the same kind of food for
5:33 about three days in a row and then he's
5:36 just done. You make him like a
5:38 cheeseburger with a bun. Again, not me
5:41 making it. Someone in the house makes
5:43 it.
5:45 And he just goes over and looks at it
5:47 and he looks up. He's like,
5:50 "I'm disappointed in this." And he
5:52 [ __ ] walks away. And then he's got
5:56 the nervew
6:01 all [ __ ] night. Like, "Feed me. Feed
6:04 me something. Feed me something gourmet.
6:09 This what we got to deal with all
6:11 [ __ ] night. Where's my cheese? What?
6:13 Why noodles again?
6:16 Spaghetti bolognes for the third night
6:18 in a row. I don't think so. Do I look
6:21 like a street dog? He was found in a
6:23 ditch in Oklahoma. Okay. [laughter]
6:27 Right. Lay down. Lay down. Lay down. Lay
6:31 down. Lay down. Lay down. Sit. Sit. Good
6:36 boy.
6:38 [laughter]
6:39 You know I'm talking about you. You're a
6:41 little space diva, aren't you? Huh?
6:43 [music]
6:49 [music]
6:57 [music]
7:04 Hey.
7:07 [music]
7:12 >> [music]
7:17 [music]
7:23 [music]
7:29 [music]
7:32 >> Heat. Heat.
7:37 [music]
7:44 [music]
7:50 [music]
8:00 >> [music]
8:03 >> Um, let's see. What do we got going on?
8:06 Speaking of music,
8:09 um,
8:11 Sunno,
8:13 Sunno has been uh, so UDO got gobbled up
8:18 by uh, Universal Music Group. Sunno got
8:21 gobbled up by Warner Brothers, Warner
8:23 Music Group today.
8:25 Um, you're going to have to have a paid
8:27 subscription to download your [ __ ]
8:29 songs.
8:33 So,
8:34 what I think this is going to
8:36 precipitate, this is my guess, or andor
8:38 if you're a coder, you want an
8:41 opportunity, go make your own [ __ ]
8:43 music model
8:45 like an open- source one. [music]
8:53 cuz what's going to happen is the the uh
8:57 the big music companies are going to do
8:59 everything they can to retain their
9:00 their business model
9:03 and which by the way does not serve
9:06 artists
9:08 in case it wasn't clear. Um but they're
9:12 going to try to lock you into a walled
9:13 garden that's their garden.
9:16 There's still producer AI. Yeah, that
9:17 one will probably fall next.
9:30 >> [music]
9:35 [music]
9:42 [music]
9:48 [music]
10:01 >> Can you imagine if you opened Logic Pro
10:05 and Logic Pro wouldn't let you download
10:07 a song that you edited? [laughter]
10:14 Oh, there's still refusion. I know.
10:16 Yeah. Producer AI, baby.
10:21 Cassette recorder. Yeah.
10:35 [music]
10:41 >> [music]
10:46 [music]
10:50 >> Um,
10:54 [music]
11:03 a new chapter in music creation. Sunno
11:06 partners with Warner Music Group to
11:08 build the future of interactive music.
11:10 This was after they raised, didn't they
11:12 just raise $250 million? Wasn't that
11:14 them? [music]
11:23 >> [music]
11:25 >> So, I wonder if that $250 million had
11:28 some strings attached, you know, guitar
11:31 strings and such,
11:34 [laughter]
11:35 like around the neck of the CEO.
11:38 Okay, here's what's going to happen.
11:40 You're going to make this little
11:41 announcement. We've raised $250 million,
11:43 which puts us at a $2.3 billion
11:46 valuation. The future of music is here.
11:48 And then two weeks later, we're going to
11:50 announce this little diddy where you're
11:52 going to tell people they're going to
11:53 charge they're they're going to have to
11:55 pay to get their songs. And then a month
11:58 from now, we'll make the real
12:00 announcement. [laughter]
12:06 Yeah.
12:07 Bitter. You betcha.
12:10 Um,
12:12 the next five years are going to be a
12:16 series of large corporations
12:23 kicking and screaming and suing
12:26 to to to maintain their business models.
12:30 Um, and I think longterm it's not going
12:31 to go well. kind of like the the ad
12:34 business is they they kind of [ __ ]
12:36 themselves because they they basically
12:39 denied they denied digital for 30 years.
12:44 Yeah, digital is not that big a deal.
12:45 It's all about TV. It's all about
12:46 broadcast. [laughter] Yeah, we'll be
12:49 over here winning our Emmys while you
12:50 make your cute little websites and go to
12:52 your cute little media buys. Okay, we're
12:54 going to be doing the real advertising
12:57 business. They did that for 30 [ __ ]
12:59 years
13:00 and now they're like, "Uh, we we like
13:03 the internet. The internet's good."
13:05 Yeah, it's uh solid. I like it's it's
13:08 all pretty good. The internet. Yeah.
13:10 Wait, AI? Huh?
13:13 [laughter]
13:16 Oh, did we mention Flux 2 already? No, I
13:19 No, I have not. I Listen, honest to God,
13:22 I told you this would happen. I said it.
13:23 I was listen I have said to you people
13:26 the tools don't matter unless they do.
13:30 There's a whole bunch of tools out right
13:32 now that are way better than what was
13:34 there before.
13:36 So you got the nano banana thing. People
13:38 are going crazy with it. Every time I
13:40 put up some new idea, people adopt it.
13:42 They're loving it. It's this is this is
13:44 changing things. Um Gemini 3's
13:47 absolutely crazy. Uh Claude 4.5, we
13:51 didn't even talk about that yesterday.
13:52 So after the live, I was like, "Oh,
13:55 maybe I should go like try something in
13:58 Claude 4.5."
14:00 So because I don't have any original
14:02 thoughts, I thought, I know. I'll make
14:05 myself an asteroids clone. Holy [ __ ]
14:08 you won't believe believe how good it
14:10 is. And then today, Flux 2 came out,
14:14 which
14:15 Flux 2
14:19 pre- Nano Banana would be pretty
14:21 revolutionary. It's open- source. It's
14:24 free. You can install it on your own
14:26 computers or you can install it in cloud
14:28 computers. Um,
14:31 and it's really, really good. Um
14:36 but it's not sitting inside of Gemini 3,
14:40 right? Nano Banana is sitting inside a
14:43 multimodal
14:45 um model that's connected to Google. So
14:48 [music] I would say Google still has the
14:50 uh has the lead. But if you're like
14:53 screw Google,
14:56 I don't want to feed the beast. I want
14:58 to make good images on my own or I want
15:00 to make an application where I don't
15:01 have to pay their exorbitant token fees,
15:07 then Flux 2 looks good. And if you go to
15:10 uh if you go to
15:13 [music]
15:19 what's the uh what's the model site? I'm
15:21 having an old person moment.
15:24 Uh, where all the models are.
15:28 Brandon's brain still works. I think
15:30 he's about to type it.
15:33 You know where you go. Where the models
15:35 are. Where the developers go. Not
15:36 GitHub. The other one
15:40 song. My child arrived the other day. So
15:43 much like a man. I just had to say.
15:46 Nice. I like it. No, not llm arena. No,
15:49 no, no. The model. Um, hugging face. If
15:53 you go to hugging face, there's uh you
15:55 can play with flux 2 there. Hugging
15:57 face. Thank you. Shainsaw. Shainsaw got
16:00 it. Shainsaw gets a cookie. Everybody
16:03 give Shane Saw a cookie. [laughter]
16:11 Oh, good lord. Good lord. Good lord.
16:17 [music]
16:18 What do you want? You want up there?
16:19 Hang on. I got to deal with I got dog
16:21 issues. Want to get up? Want to get up?
16:24 Come on.
16:29 Come on.
16:32 Come on.
16:35 Out. You want out? All right.
16:38 Don't bug me anymore.
16:41 Here's your fat dog.
16:50 That dog,
16:52 that dog is a Randy Minkx.
17:04 [music]
17:08 Um,
17:14 [music]
17:15 let me show you what I built in Claude.
17:20 Um,
17:22 so Claude 4.5 Opus is out. So Opus is
17:27 their big model and this is their their
17:30 Claude 4. What was it? 41 4041
17:34 was the was the standard for a while.
17:37 Now it looks like Gemini 3 is the new
17:40 the new king of the hill, but when I
17:42 when I went to Claude,
17:44 it was pretty dang good.
17:48 Um,
17:52 so this is this is um I made one
17:56 modification to this site. No, two.
18:01 the thrust. The color of the thrust. Oh,
18:03 wait. I gotta hang on a sec. There you
18:06 go. For you people on the on the Tik
18:08 Tok.
18:17 Hugging face. Don't Yeah. Okay. Um
18:25 I hope the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is
18:27 ready to build an AI wing.
18:32 Well, I just Listen, here's what's going
18:34 to happen with AI music.
18:37 It's It's not going to be a thing.
18:41 It's not. It's like
18:44 like sampling was all the [ __ ] like
18:47 sampling was going to ruin music and
18:48 those aren't real musicians and they're
18:50 just copying and pasting. And there are
18:53 going to be people that use AI music
18:55 tools better than other people and
18:56 they're going to have careers and some
18:58 of them will form bands to play the
19:00 music they wrote using AI and you'll
19:02 never know what was AI written and what
19:03 what wasn't. It doesn't [ __ ] matter.
19:06 Um, okay. So, this thing
19:11 I said to Claude 4.5 it like I often do,
19:16 make me an Asteroids clone. And I and I
19:18 said I want it to have that late7s
19:21 aesthetic.
19:23 And so it went ahead and made it I don't
19:27 know if you can see it on Tik Tok, but
19:29 um it's got scan lines like a CRT,
19:32 right? And here listen to the listen to
19:36 the sounds.
19:58 Ah. Um, notice how like Asteroids is
20:01 ghosted into the CRT.
20:04 Um, this is a oneshot game. And if you
20:07 don't know what that term means, one
20:09 shot, it means I wrote the prompt, make
20:11 me an asteroids clone. And this is what
20:13 came out.
20:15 This is what came out. This is this is
20:17 version two where the the thruster that
20:19 was behind the ship was red. And I said,
20:21 if you're going to make a green
20:22 phosphorus screen, you should it should
20:25 be a green thruster. And I said level
20:28 one should start less intense. And so it
20:30 started level one with four asteroids
20:32 instead of six.
20:34 Um,
20:35 but holy [ __ ] like even the way the the
20:38 the ship flickers when it first starts
20:41 where you have a little a little grace
20:43 period where you can get your bearings,
20:46 it's it's a little fast
20:50 compared to the original. And the UFOs
20:52 come out a little intense,
20:55 but like this is crazy. And let me let
20:57 me flip over to Claude.
21:03 Let's see
21:06 where
21:09 retro arcade game.
21:12 So, let's look at the code.
21:16 All right. Share this tab instead.
21:18 So, it just like it's a pretty long code
21:22 base
21:27 like oscillator frequency. So, here's
21:30 audio stuff. Hyperspace,
21:33 extra life. Here's the ship,
21:38 canvas width, canvas height, math.py,
21:42 I guess, for doing circle [ __ ]
21:45 Thrusting false visible true invincible
21:49 120. Oh, let's turn invincible up to
21:52 300.
21:54 Oh, you can't edit it. Damn it.
21:58 [laughter]
21:59 I'm sure I could I could just tell that
22:01 I want it more invincible. Um
22:05 friction.
22:08 Here's the asteroids. There's the
22:10 asteroids.
22:15 You know what's amazing to me is I think
22:17 back
22:20 like in 1979 or probably 7778
22:24 when Atari was just getting started. Who
22:26 is that? Noah Bushnell, right?
22:29 Um,
22:30 he was probably coding in something that
22:33 was like this and just, you know,
22:36 figured out the shapes and the dynamics
22:38 and the physics and there were probably,
22:40 you know, 400 iterations of the code
22:44 base before they burned it onto a chip.
22:47 But anyway, it uh
22:51 you can now just ask for it. Now do
22:52 pong. Okay. All right. Let's do um
23:01 I wonder can I spin up? Yeah, I can cuz
23:05 here's the where is it? This right here
23:08 is is the code base. Are these artifacts
23:12 sharable? Yeah. In fact,
23:14 um,
23:16 copy
23:21 publish artifact content already
23:23 published.
23:25 Here's the link. So, let me go I'll go
23:28 throw this in in the
23:32 AI salon.
23:36 So, I'll go to we'll go to community
23:39 feed. We'll put it out there where
23:40 everyone can see it. Did I already put
23:42 it here? I don't think I did.
23:47 Oh, yeah. I put Thanksgiving, the time
23:49 of year where you can admit to your
23:50 family that you're AI positive and then
23:52 invite them to AI Festivus. By the way,
23:55 if you go to um some of the main areas
23:58 in the salon, we now have ads for AI
24:01 Festivus right on screen. I was just
24:04 thinking how this brought
24:06 brought me back to Atari. Yeah, I still
24:09 have ours from the Wayback Machine. Oh,
24:11 that's so cool. That's really cool.
24:13 Okay, so let's see. Um,
24:16 here is a single
24:20 shot version of an Asteroids
24:26 clone using Claude
24:31 4.5
24:33 Opus.
24:36 And I'm going to put that.
24:39 And then I'm going to add in a picture.
24:43 Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going
24:44 to go over here
24:46 and I'm going to do a screenshot. I'm
24:49 doing a screenshot. It's going to be so
24:52 fantastic.
24:54 You know, he made that game. He just
24:56 asked for it. He went on the computer
25:00 and he said, "Hey, could I have a video
25:04 game?" And then it started doing all
25:06 this crazy code. It was like the Matrix.
25:08 There was just letters flying up the
25:10 screen.
25:12 I never seen anything like it.
25:16 And then he's like, "Just wait." And I'm
25:20 like, "Just wait for what? This is
25:21 boring. Is this is this is AI? This is
25:25 This is what you're all excited about."
25:28 And then about the time I was about to
25:29 get another scotch and soda. I love my
25:32 scotch and soda. Anyway, I was about to
25:34 get a scotch and soda and up it comes
25:38 and he started playing this video game
25:39 and I'm like, "Where did that come
25:41 from?" And he said, "Well, I just asked
25:43 for it. That's what AI did. That's what
25:46 all that code was." He called it all the
25:49 letters.
25:51 And then he was playing a game. I was
25:54 like,
25:56 "Huh?"
26:02 Uh, [laughter]
26:09 all right. So, we're going to go in
26:11 here. We're going to get rid of that.
26:14 We're going to add that in.
26:17 Boom. All right. So, if you go to
26:24 Yeah, we're going to notify everyone.
26:26 So, if you go to um the community feed
26:30 right at the top, if you go on the lefth
26:31 hand side here, you got start your
26:33 adventure, four little areas there, and
26:35 then you got community feed is right
26:36 down here in in community. All right, go
26:40 there and you can play that Asteroids
26:42 game. And you know what else you can do?
26:43 You can go uh you can go hack it. Kyle
26:46 is legend
26:48 and steam. [laughter]
26:53 All the code was flying up just like the
26:55 Matrix. And then before I know, and then
26:58 you know what he did? He said, "I don't
27:00 even like asteroids anymore. I want
27:02 Pong." All right. So So here we go. I'm
27:05 going to say um by Jingus. And by the
27:10 way, when you're talking to AI, when
27:12 you're talking to a chatbot, you should
27:15 absolutely turn use terms like by jingus
27:19 and yaluca.
27:21 Come on, yaluca. Yeah. Yeah. I see.
27:24 Bye, Jingus. [laughter]
27:27 I think I wants I think I want to see me
27:34 some Pong in the same style. [snorts]
27:39 Um,
27:42 I want that pong
27:46 to be as close to I just lost my light.
27:52 the original
27:56 as possible.
27:59 All right. And then I'm going to Oh,
28:01 you're not watching this, are you? Or
28:02 are you? No, because you're over there
28:04 because I didn't share my screen. That's
28:06 fine. It's You don't need to see this.
28:08 You don't need to see everything.
28:09 Everybody calm down. I don't know why
28:11 you're crying,
28:13 right? There's no crying in AI.
28:18 But I used it took me 10 years to learn
28:21 to code this good. I know. I know. We
28:24 all used to have careers, okay? We all
28:27 used to be somebody, right?
28:32 You don't have to use your brain
28:33 anymore. That's part of the deal.
28:36 You don't have to use your brain. Okay,
28:39 here we go. Bye, Jingus. I think I wants
28:41 to see me
28:43 some pong. I put bong. That's pretty
28:46 funny. That would have been funny. I
28:48 want that pong to be as close to the
28:50 original as possible. And go.
28:53 All right, let's see what this thing
28:55 does.
28:57 There's a ton of crying in [laughter]
28:58 AI.
29:06 Time to go even further back to 1972.
29:09 Let me build you an authentic Pong
29:11 experience. And here it goes. Look at
29:14 that. We're just we're just making code
29:16 now.
29:19 You're like, but I still see asteroids
29:21 over there. I know.
29:34 Kyle's a little feisty tonight. I like
29:36 it.
29:38 I'm just tired of all of the people in
29:40 my head complaining about AI. [laughter]
29:45 I got I got to give them a talking to
29:49 [laughter]
29:53 [ __ ] voices.
29:55 [clears throat]
30:00 You know, it's funny with with AI
30:02 doubters. You show them something
30:03 remarkable and they're like, "Oh, yeah.
30:06 Anyway, uh there's a typo. [laughter]
30:08 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like that was supposed
30:10 to be remarkable or something like that.
30:14 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
30:18 Let me copy this to the outputs folder.
30:23 Create crafting a 19 authentic 1972 Pong
30:26 recreation.
30:31 I've done it. Play Pong. Here we go.
30:38 Bang.
30:41 Yeah. Yeah. See? Yeah.
30:44 How do I make this full screen?
30:48 Should I just publish it? Should I just
30:50 go right out on a freaking limb and
30:53 publish it?
30:59 Do it. Do it live. Live dangerously.
31:02 Okay, here we go. Publish artifact.
31:06 Pong HTML.
31:09 Publish and copy link.
31:12 Copy link. Okay.
31:14 Oh, get embed code.
31:17 Let's see if
31:22 wait only allow these domains
31:27 that can embed the artifact.
31:31 Um,
31:37 let me just try to copy this. I don't
31:40 know how to embed. Screw that. We're
31:43 just going to copy the link. All right.
31:44 So, I'm going to go to the salon again.
31:47 I'm going to go community feed. I'm
31:49 going to go um living dangerously
31:55 published this before
31:59 playing it.
32:02 And then I'm going to put that there.
32:05 And then I'm going to go back over here.
32:08 And I'm going to go screenshot baby.
32:13 And then I'm going to go back over here.
32:19 Share this tab. And I'm going to go
32:21 paste.
32:23 Boom. All right. You can go play that
32:26 while I play it. We're not going to
32:28 notify everyone this time.
32:32 And then we're going to go
32:35 to the artifact.
32:40 Oops, that's the wrong one.
32:43 Wait. Copy.
32:47 Go here. Go. Paste.
32:50 Wait. What's going on?
32:56 Uh.
32:59 Uh. Uh uh uh copy link.
33:03 Go over here.
33:06 Go like that. Yes. [gasps] Share this
33:10 tab instead. Okay. One equals one
33:12 player.
33:14 Two equals two players. So I'm going to
33:15 do one.
33:24 Uhoh.
33:26 What am I? Oh,
33:29 what am I [ __ ] What are my I could make
33:32 it go up but not down. Okay, W and A. W
33:34 and A. A is down. No. What's down?
33:39 Right wins. I know right wins. You
33:41 didn't tell me what my [ __ ] controls
33:43 were
33:45 [laughter]
33:50 one
33:53 uh S W and S. I would have read the
33:57 instructions, but I'm Gen X. I don't do
33:59 that.
34:10 This is pretty good.
34:13 Except I suck.
34:19 [laughter] I really suck.
34:21 [clears throat]
34:23 It's pretty good.
34:25 Okay.
34:44 [laughter] I suck so bad. Damn it.
34:48 [laughter]
34:57 >> [music]
35:12 >> This is UV DAR all over again. Shut up.
35:15 Hey man, get out. I played this for an
35:18 hour and then asked, "Dad, okay, can we
35:20 get an Atari?
35:22 >> [laughter]
35:23 >> I mean, I got to tell you that like the
35:28 the attention to detail of the scan
35:31 lines and like there's a burned in
35:34 phosphor ring where the electron gun,
35:37 you know, burned brighter and the glow
35:40 around the things. Tik Tok pin. If you
35:43 told me three years ago, this is how I'd
35:44 be spending every night.
35:47 [laughter]
35:48 Hey, Kelly, what'd you do last night? I
35:50 don't want to talk about it. Why? Hey,
35:52 what's what's up? You okay? No.
35:55 What'd you do?
35:57 I watched this guy playing Pong.
36:01 Pong?
36:03 Like the old video game? Yeah.
36:07 How long did you watch him?
36:09 Two two hours.
36:11 Kelly, what are you doing with your
36:13 life? I KNOW. I'M NOT PROUD OF IT.
36:17 [laughter]
36:21 NO, we're not. Okay.
36:24 [laughter] Three years. How long have
36:26 you watched him? Three years.
36:29 [laughter]
36:34 Oh my god.
36:39 But here's the reality.
36:45 So for those of you that have been
36:46 watching this for three years, you know
36:48 this.
36:50 When you would try to get this
36:53 technology,
36:55 generative AI to make games initially,
36:59 it was like blocks,
37:02 right? And and bad gameplay. And it took
37:06 you 27 attempts to even get it some
37:09 version of playable. And then like a
37:11 year later it was like, okay, that's
37:13 sort of good. And then a year later it's
37:15 like that's pretty good.
37:17 And now we're at the point where it's
37:19 just like, yeah, this is this is
37:24 like this is beyond just playable. This
37:26 is like aesthetically
37:29 fascinating, right? And good. And you
37:33 could put a database behind this. So you
37:34 could keep leaderboards and you could I
37:37 could see doing a whole arcade game of
37:39 these. Uh let let me see. Oh, you know
37:40 what? You know what? One what might be
37:42 interesting?
37:44 Customize this artifact. I don't need to
37:46 do that. I'm already in the thing. Um,
37:49 I'm going to try something here.
37:51 I'm going to ask Claude. I'm going to
37:53 say, um, what is the next
37:59 big video game after
38:04 Asteroids in 1979?
38:10 Let's see what this comes up with.
38:17 Yeah, Tetris was way later. Pac-Man.
38:20 Okay. Oh, Missile Command was my [ __ ]
38:23 jam.
38:25 1980 was an incredible year for arcades.
38:28 The big ones right after Asteroids.
38:30 Pac-Man. I never got into. Missile
38:32 Command. I love Battle Zone. I love
38:34 Defender. I love Defender. I initially
38:37 hated because it was so hard, but then I
38:40 [ __ ] loved it. And then Centipede was
38:42 my one. Okay, so when I worked at a
38:44 movie theater in 1980,
38:46 um it was the year Mr. Mom came out and
38:48 Scarface came out. So I saw Mr. Mom
38:52 about 800 times and I saw Scarface about
38:55 a thousand times. Um so I I knew every
38:58 [ __ ] line in those [laughter] in
39:00 those movies. And Tootsie, you're wrong,
39:02 Dr. Brewster. I'm very proud to be a
39:04 woman. Um, [laughter]
39:10 all right. Which ones do I Centipede's
39:12 going to be hard because we don't have a
39:14 track ball. But I guess I could use a
39:17 mouse. Oh, I could use a mouse, couldn't
39:19 I?
39:21 Oh, do I want to do centipede? I Or the
39:24 [ __ ] one do I want to do? Defender was
39:27 the one. Brutally difficult
39:29 sidescrolling shooter.
39:32 Um, I think you know that
39:37 defender,
39:39 let's see,
39:41 defender or centipede
39:47 are the beasts.
39:51 Let's see you tackle
39:55 defender.
39:58 Boom.
40:00 All right. Am I Oh, I'm not sharing my
40:02 screen. That That would kind of suck.
40:05 Um,
40:07 we could play Pong. We could play Pong
40:10 while it writes Defender. [laughter]
40:17 Um, by the way, if you're wondering
40:18 where I am, um, we're we're in Claude
40:22 Claude.ai.
40:24 We've selected Opus 4.5, which is their
40:27 big MacDaddy new model, and we're making
40:30 video games. The The point I was I was
40:32 going to make
40:35 is this
40:37 this level of large language model is
40:40 now capable of very accurately
40:43 in a single prompt recreating games from
40:47 the 70s. Right now, we're moving into
40:50 the 80s. We'll see. We'll see how far up
40:52 the the chain we can go
40:55 within a year or two or probably today
40:59 if you were, you know, if if you took
41:01 some some real time with it. Um, you
41:05 could be creating very very
41:07 sophisticated games within a year or
41:09 two. You're going to be able to create
41:12 very sophisticated kick very
41:14 sophisticated games without any effort.
41:17 And three years from now, we're just
41:19 going to be speaking worlds into
41:22 existence. Narrative worlds, game
41:24 worlds, business worlds,
41:27 um, information worlds, research worlds,
41:29 history worlds.
41:32 You can't spell Atari without AI. That
41:34 is true. That's really good. Uh,
41:41 I saw the Nate Pate Substack.
41:49 [laughter]
41:53 The game that made grown men weep with
41:55 its five buttons, two-way joystick, and
41:57 merciless merciless difficulty.
42:02 That's pretty funny. All right.
42:04 Well, we might as well play pong while
42:06 we're waiting.
42:11 Oh, I can't see my
42:16 Uhoh. What did I do?
42:25 Am I going to be able to see it now?
42:28 Nope. Oh, sort of. I can barely see it.
42:43 Got one.
42:50 [laughter]
42:54 All right. It's still coding. It's still
42:57 coding, people.
43:01 Humanoids. Oh, remember the humanoids
43:03 when it dropped the humanoids down and
43:05 you had to go get them before they
43:07 splatted.
43:12 It's going particles and explosions.
43:18 I don't think the sound is right.
43:19 Similar, but I do remember maybe hearing
43:22 maybe my hearing is better. Yeah, I
43:24 think this is I think I think this is
43:26 not a programming issue. I think it
43:28 might be your ears. [laughter]
43:40 Oh, you know what game was great that I
43:42 bet I bet this would be really good at
43:44 and it would be fun to play is Lunar
43:47 Lander.
43:48 I bet this would be very good at
43:50 Lunarander.
43:52 Old hearing issues. I've got old hearing
43:54 issues, old seeing issues, all the
43:56 issues. [laughter]
43:59 Getting old sucks. If you cannot do
44:01 that, that would be swell. The the best
44:03 option is don't get old.
44:09 [laughter]
44:13 If y'all if and y'all remember like a
44:15 year ago, you see how long this is
44:18 coding? See how long it's taking?
44:21 These models wouldn't code this long.
44:23 They they would truncate all their all
44:24 their coding things and it they they
44:27 would make really incomplete
44:29 incomplete things.
44:33 This is doing pretty old good.
44:37 Oh, I think we're done. I saw a closed I
44:39 saw a closed HTML tag. This is all just
44:42 an HTML, by the way. [laughter]
44:45 Defender
44:47 1981 Williams Electronics. Look at that.
44:49 That's funny. All right, we're gonna Are
44:52 we going to just Are we just gonna We're
44:54 going to publish this one? Is this how
44:55 this going to work? This what you people
44:57 are going to do to me?
45:00 All right, fine. Fine. We'll do that.
45:04 Um,
45:06 danger vibe coding ahead.
45:15 published
45:16 without testing. [laughter]
45:20 Oh, that that image is too big. Really?
45:24 Come on.
45:26 All right. I know what I'll do. I'll do
45:28 this. Then I'll change this to this.
45:30 I'll do this. Then I'll do this.
45:34 Then I'll go copy. Publish artifact.
45:37 Publish.
45:39 I got to come back here and get that.
45:42 Hang on. I'll be there in a second. Calm
45:43 down, everybody.
45:45 So, there's that. And then I'm going to
45:47 go grab
45:55 [sighs]
46:05 post.
46:07 Do not notify us. We have notified
46:09 people too much. We got Defender, we got
46:12 Pong, and we got Asteroids. Oh yeah,
46:15 people. Fantastic. Bob, tell him what
46:18 he's won.
46:19 Uh, he has won anything.
46:22 It's not a game show. Okay, here we go.
46:26 So, I'm going to go like this. I'm go
46:27 bang. I'm going to share my screen.
46:30 We got Defender. Now we don't know
46:35 where are our if I go full screen I
46:39 don't have any
46:44 what you call it
46:47 ah there we go
46:49 if I do command minus now I can see okay
46:52 move up and down
46:56 what's left and right
46:59 thrust must be spacebar are
47:04 a is reverse.
47:09 Space is fire.
47:13 This is going to take a while.
47:19 Oh. Oh, you [ __ ]
47:26 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I remember it now.
47:29 This is This is not very good. The
47:30 graphics are not very good, but
47:32 playability is pretty good.
47:34 Damn it.
47:40 [laughter] This is so hard. This is so
47:42 hard.
47:45 This is going to make grown men cry.
47:47 They're right.
47:49 Oh, you [ __ ]
47:57 Oh.
47:59 >> [laughter]
48:01 >> Game over is way too fast. It really is.
48:10 Oh my god, this is so hard. This is too
48:13 hard. Okay, I'm I'm crying. [laughter]
48:20 Um, I'm gonna I'm gonna say this. I'm
48:22 going to go uh the graphics
48:25 are way too lean. I want
48:32 them more like the original
48:37 and not vector.
48:43 Um
48:45 the
48:47 um
48:50 difficulty
48:51 of level one
48:55 is way too high.
49:00 Um
49:04 make it easier.
49:08 [laughter]
49:09 All right. Whatever.
49:13 What the [laughter]
49:15 the challenge of of large language
49:17 models getting better is that you really
49:19 don't have to think as much, [laughter]
49:25 which I don't know that this is a bad
49:26 thing. I don't know that it's a bad
49:29 thing that we don't need to like if we
49:31 can put all of our critical thinking
49:33 energy into what like what problem am I
49:37 trying to solve
49:39 rather than how do I tactically solve
49:41 it?
49:44 It seems to me we're going to we're
49:46 going to ask better questions. I I think
49:48 here's where I think there I think
49:50 there's a fascinating uh split coming in
49:53 society.
49:55 And it's not the halves and the halves.
49:57 I don't think it's that. I think it's
49:59 going to be people that take advantage
50:00 of AI and people that don't.
50:03 People that, you know, token [ __ ]
50:07 Token [ __ ] are like all in on AI.
50:10 They're they're going to use up all
50:11 their tokens. And then there's going to
50:12 be other people like, I don't [ __ ]
50:14 care. My robot cleans my house now. I'm
50:17 good. [laughter]
50:20 I just think those people are going to
50:21 be bored.
50:23 I think that's going to suck.
50:26 QA, we don't need QA. Ship it. That was
50:29 the magnifi the Magnifox defender. That
50:32 was totally a Magnavox defender. It was
50:34 pretty shitty. But I do want to do Lunar
50:37 Lander. We'll do Lunar Lander after
50:38 this.
50:40 Uh, dumb it down. AI needs to get our
50:42 personal speed. Yeah, it does. It does.
50:45 Okay. What's it doing? Get notified.
50:50 Oh, that's cool. You can you can tell
50:52 Claude to notify you when it's doing
50:54 long tasks.
50:57 I do think so. This is one of the things
50:59 that that Open AAI has been bragging
51:01 about a little bit, which by the way, I
51:03 it sounds like OpenAI's a little pooping
51:06 in their pants about Gemini 3. that it's
51:09 that it's of a level that they're like,
51:11 "Ah, shit." Um,
51:15 they've been talking a lot about Sam
51:17 Alman's been talking a lot about,
51:20 you know, large language models going
51:23 from
51:25 10 minutes of uninterrupted work to 30
51:28 to an hour. Pretty soon it's going to be
51:31 like two days. Pretty soon it's going to
51:34 be five days where you can basically
51:36 just say to your thing, go accomplish
51:39 some big task and it will go work for
51:41 five days. Yeah. There's also there's
51:44 also a uh an interview out with Sam
51:47 Alman and and Johnny Ies where they're
51:50 talking about the the hardware device
51:53 that Johnny Ies is designing. It sounds
51:57 like it's going to have a sense of humor
51:58 about it. It also sounds like it's going
52:00 to be incredibly minimal. And Altman
52:03 described it as that hanging out in the
52:06 woods in a cabin feeling,
52:10 [laughter] which I have no [ __ ] idea
52:13 what that means.
52:16 And I love metaphors and story. And I
52:19 don't know what the [ __ ] he's talking
52:20 about. I don't I don't I don't know.
52:23 [laughter] I don't know.
52:28 Maybe it'll be tied to your robot.
52:33 [sighs] I reassured my chat GBT that it
52:35 was okay. The memory of our
52:36 conversations are pretty important.
52:39 Yeah.
52:46 [gasps]
52:47 All right.
52:49 Improve attract mode with chunky
52:51 graphics. I like what it's writing here.
52:57 21 steps, improved attract mode with
53:01 chunky graphics,
53:03 plus 57
53:07 changes, and it's counting them up.
53:10 Improve game over screen.
53:16 This is a whole new set of code.
53:20 This is cool.
53:26 Why can't I see it though? Oh, I bet if
53:28 I went to code I could. No. Oh, yeah.
53:34 Where are we?
53:50 Uh [groaning]
53:52 more for next loops. Yep.
53:56 When I learned basic it was go to
53:59 [laughter]
54:00 10. You know 10 lrint
54:04 hello world [laughter]
54:07 20. Go to 10.
54:14 [clears throat and cough]
54:15 There we go. Now it looks like a real
54:16 1981 Williams raster game. Yeah. Yeah,
54:19 we don't we don't need no stinking
54:21 vectors. We need your raster.
54:25 [laughter]
54:27 Ship is now propy proper multicolored
54:30 sprite with cyan body, white nose, and
54:32 dark cockpit.
54:35 All right, defender. Here we go.
54:41 Let's go look at it. That looks better.
54:46 All right.
54:51 Publish artifact.
54:53 Copy link.
54:56 Go over here.
54:58 Paste.
55:00 Share.
55:03 No, that's the old one. What the [ __ ] is
55:06 going on with my copying?
55:11 Hey, Marge.
55:17 What? Why is that not working?
55:25 Unpublish.
55:28 Publish artifact.
55:31 Copy link.
55:42 No, that looks like it's the same with
55:44 the same code.
55:47 Page not found. Go back home.
55:55 Oh, because I unpublished it.
56:00 Publish artifact.
56:03 Published.
56:08 What's going on here, people?
56:12 Um, oh, let me reload this.
56:18 I mean, I can download it and we you
56:21 could just have the published artifact
56:24 not found or not authorized. Unpublish.
56:30 What
56:34 cranky? All right, we'll download it.
56:36 There's another way we can skin this
56:37 cat.
56:39 Okay. So, what I'm going to do now is I
56:42 downloaded the HTML because it's just an
56:44 HTML file. So, I'm just going to drop
56:47 that in here. There we go.
56:53 Why can I not zoom in on this at all? Am
56:56 I Am I sharing that? Share this tab
56:58 instead.
57:00 Um, view zoom in.
57:04 Okay, it's going. Zoom in.
57:08 Okay.
57:11 Thrust is left and right. Move is up and
57:14 down. A is reverse. Space is fire.
57:19 H is hyperspace. I never use hyperspace.
57:22 Enter is start. Protect the humanoids.
57:30 It's pretty good.
57:33 Wait. How do you pick up the Don't I
57:35 have to pick up the humans?
57:51 Oh, I should just It should just turn
57:52 around.
57:56 Oh, he killed me.
57:59 Oh, yeah. Oh, I remember it now.
58:06 Press enter to continue. It's been a
58:09 long time since I made it to AI learning
58:11 lab. I think I'll write a a [laughter]
58:14 book while I watch.
58:16 Jim Ross, man, what's happening? Hey.
58:20 Hey, look. Jim, look. Jim. Jim. Jim.
58:22 Listen. Uh, stop sharing. Let me go back
58:24 here. Oh, wait. I got to share again.
58:26 Hang on. I got so excited I stopped
58:28 sharing.
58:30 I don't know how long you've been here,
58:32 Jim, but
58:35 [laughter] uh Okay, let's go back here.
58:40 That's defender.
58:43 Let's go. Let's show you Asteroids.
58:47 Here we go.
58:51 Look at this Asteroids game. How cool is
58:53 that? Publish artifact. Copy link.
58:57 Go over here.
59:00 But you know what I'm thinking, Jim?
59:04 You know what I'm thinking that you
59:05 could be really good at?
59:09 Is you could make a storage wars? You
59:13 could you could do like a threemile
59:15 storage branded version of Asteroids.
59:17 Like Asteroids, and then like the the
59:19 the asteroids could be like cardboard
59:22 boxes flying around. [laughter]
59:28 But look how good this is. This was one
59:29 shot of This is Claude uh 4.5.
59:45 Ah,
59:47 black bar.
59:52 Uh oh. What? What's going on? Why did I
59:54 lose controls? Oh, I'm not in the right
59:55 window. Ah, damn it.
59:57 >> [laughter]
1:00:10 >> Do you know what I would have given for
1:00:12 this in 1977?
1:00:18 A quarter every time I played.
1:00:23 I spent so much money playing this
1:00:24 stupid [ __ ] game.
1:00:26 >> [laughter]
1:00:37 >> Ah,
1:00:39 it's a little intense. This escalates.
1:00:42 This escalates a little quickly. You
1:00:44 should integrate Stripe and charge for
1:00:46 it. I should. Oh, let's try that. Let's
1:00:48 try that.
1:00:50 Should I do Stripe or what do I have?
1:00:52 I've got Do I have Stripe set up? I
1:00:53 think I have a Stripe account.
1:00:56 >> [sighs]
1:00:56 >> Where's your Space Invaders? We could do
1:00:58 Space Invaders. Let me do Lunar Lander.
1:01:00 Hang on. There's too much to do. There's
1:01:03 too much fun to be had, people. There's
1:01:05 too much fun to be had. Okay. Um I'm
1:01:08 going to say um Defender
1:01:11 bores me now. [laughter]
1:01:14 That's what you say when you're not good
1:01:16 at a video game. You're like this. Yeah,
1:01:18 whatever. It's boring. It's boring. I
1:01:21 used to think that about uh wait, I'll
1:01:25 make a game where the manager shoots
1:01:27 people bringing in the units. That's
1:01:29 perfect. [laughter]
1:01:34 Oh, that's good. Okay, let me let me
1:01:36 share this. Okay. Uh defender bores me
1:01:39 now. Um, you know what you would be
1:01:43 really good
1:01:46 at is lunar lander
1:01:50 with vector
1:01:54 graphics
1:01:57 and
1:01:58 swell
1:02:00 physics.
1:02:02 Go.
1:02:04 All right, here we go.
1:02:07 Tabs. I think I'm good on tabs, right?
1:02:09 Yeah, I'm good on tabs.
1:02:17 [sighs]
1:02:20 [clears throat and cough]
1:02:28 You know what's funny?
1:02:30 I don't know if it's funny, but because
1:02:33 you're many of you are probably with
1:02:36 you're surrounded by people that don't
1:02:38 understand what the [ __ ] you're doing
1:02:39 with AI
1:02:41 and they will have heard terms like,
1:02:43 "Oh, that's just AI slop."
1:02:46 Like what we're doing right now is AI
1:02:47 slop.
1:02:50 Retrotape.netify.app.
1:02:54 What is that? Is that a game maker?
1:03:05 But anyway, like this is AI slop, but
1:03:07 it's not like
1:03:10 I we could be doing anything tonight. We
1:03:12 could be making
1:03:14 a fourtrack cassette recorder on screen.
1:03:19 Like, it's just this is all about the
1:03:22 ideas that you have. This is no
1:03:24 different than
1:03:26 This is no different than if you went
1:03:28 and learned to code. Now, those people
1:03:30 that are engineers are going to be like,
1:03:32 "That's [ __ ]
1:03:34 This is not the same as coding. You
1:03:36 can't go in and fix anything." I know.
1:03:39 [laughter]
1:03:40 You know why? Cuz I never learned to
1:03:42 code. And you want to know the sad
1:03:45 [ __ ] reality is I wouldn't have gone
1:03:46 in and fixed it anyway because I
1:03:48 wouldn't have finished it in the first
1:03:50 place. because I wouldn't have taken
1:03:52 seven years to figure out how to code
1:03:53 well enough to do something like this.
1:03:56 So, we're in we're we're in territory.
1:04:00 Wait, try this. Oh, try it while this is
1:04:02 building. All right. So, while that's
1:04:03 building Lunarlander, we're going to go
1:04:05 to retroape.net.
1:04:09 That's a bad URL.
1:04:13 RetroAP. Oh, is this a tape recorder? I
1:04:15 bet it is.neti.com.
1:04:18 netlifi.app.
1:04:23 Share this tab instead. Oh, nice.
1:04:27 [laughter]
1:04:28 Type your vibe.
1:04:33 Um,
1:04:35 let's see. Classic
1:04:38 Zeppelin.
1:04:42 Create mix.
1:04:44 [laughter]
1:04:59 >> [music]
1:05:07 >> You know what's funny is I'm old enough
1:05:10 to know how to use this [laughter]
1:05:12 [music]
1:05:13 Oh,
1:05:17 [music]
1:05:22 [music]
1:05:24 [laughter]
1:05:28 all the same.
1:05:35 Oh, the sea [singing and music] was red
1:05:37 in the sky.
1:05:46 Oh, Robert Plant, you're such a Oh,
1:05:48 you're so sweet and sexy.
1:05:52 All right, Luna Landanda. Here we are,
1:05:54 people. We've got the Luna Lander.
1:05:57 All right, we're going to we're going to
1:05:59 we're going to play. This was also 1979.
1:06:01 Fascinating. Enter.
1:06:08 Oh, [laughter]
1:06:12 [music]
1:06:24 [music]
1:06:30 [laughter]
1:06:35 [laughter]
1:06:37 let me How How do I I got to make it
1:06:40 bigger because I can't see the sides of
1:06:42 the game.
1:06:44 Wait, why? Oh, okay. There we go. There
1:06:46 we go. Okay.
1:06:53 [music]
1:07:04 It's the physics are too weird.
1:07:08 If we're too close to the planet,
1:07:14 [music]
1:07:19 [music]
1:07:22 okay, it's bad bad physics. Okay, bad
1:07:26 physics.
1:07:28 Um by the time I can see the ground
1:07:35 I am at term
1:07:40 [clears throat] velocity.
1:07:43 Um
1:07:45 maybe zoom out further.
1:07:51 Um
1:07:53 or
1:07:55 make the gravity
1:07:57 of the planet less intense.
1:08:02 Also make the ship
1:08:07 make the whole game.
1:08:11 Um
1:08:18 look like black and white
1:08:22 um
1:08:24 CRT with
1:08:27 scan lines and no color.
1:08:33 All right. [clears throat]
1:08:36 Were you better at these 40 years ago?
1:08:38 Tik Tok pin. That's hilarious. That's
1:08:40 Listen, this is not about my skills as
1:08:43 as a trigger twitching video gamer from
1:08:46 the 70s. I was pretty [ __ ] good.
1:08:50 I mean, I wasn't world record good.
1:08:52 Like, I couldn't play Pac-Man at all,
1:08:55 [laughter]
1:08:56 but I got pretty good at Centipede and
1:08:58 Asteroids. I could kick ass. This is
1:09:01 about This is about vibe coding getting
1:09:05 the physics wrong. It's not this not a
1:09:06 me problem. This is a coding problem. I
1:09:10 got a shitty engineer here giving me
1:09:12 shitty physics. It's making me look bad.
1:09:15 And you're just out there like, "Oh,
1:09:17 isn't he shouldn't Kyle suck less?"
1:09:21 Yes, that is not the point.
1:09:25 [laughter]
1:09:26 Dig dug. That would be a good one. URL
1:09:29 for Claude. Any free subscription
1:09:31 points? Uh, I don't know. I think
1:09:36 that's really bad. claude.ai is the is
1:09:38 the URL. Tik Tok pin. 1979. I spent a
1:09:42 lot of time watching my boyfriend play
1:09:44 these things. Exactly. This is This is
1:09:48 what we did.
1:09:50 This is what we did. We take the bus to
1:09:52 the mall. Hey, you going out to the mall
1:09:54 today? I was in York, Pennsylvania.
1:09:57 That's how everybody talked. Hey, Kyle,
1:09:59 you going down to the mall today? Yeah.
1:10:01 No, I got to get uh some oral changed in
1:10:04 my car. Yeah. No, I'll see you at the
1:10:06 mall later. You're going to you're going
1:10:07 to be at the arcade. Yeah.
1:10:11 Yeah. That was what I grew up with.
1:10:14 Yeah. I I I had to [ __ ] escape.
1:10:18 I I got to my senior year and I'm like,
1:10:21 uh, I'm out of here. And people are
1:10:23 like, why would you leave? Hey, where
1:10:25 are you going? Oh, you're going to Penn
1:10:27 State. You're going way out there. Are
1:10:30 you coming back? Like, no.
1:10:33 Why not? Why are you staying?
1:10:38 Anyone Anyone else escaped their
1:10:39 hometown like that?
1:10:42 One of the reasons I love New York City
1:10:43 is I feel like New York City is a city
1:10:46 full of people who had that attitude
1:10:48 about their hometown. I got to get the
1:10:51 [ __ ] out of here. [laughter]
1:10:57 >> [laughter]
1:11:01 >> Oh, you going down to the mall today?
1:11:04 You taking a bus? Yeah. [laughter]
1:11:07 I escaped my home country.
1:11:11 Vicki. Vicki couldn't take an entire
1:11:14 continent. She's like, "Out.
1:11:16 [clears throat] Done. Done with your
1:11:18 little walab bees and your [ __ ]
1:11:21 kicking kangaroo jackabe things. I'm
1:11:26 gone. I'm out. You giant tarantula
1:11:29 spiders.
1:11:32 [laughter]
1:11:35 Tasmanian devil my ass. I'll be in
1:11:38 Illinois.
1:11:39 [laughter]
1:11:44 Oh, that was England. Oh, you escaped to
1:11:46 Australia. Oh, you had to get away from
1:11:48 the tea and crumpets crowd. Good for
1:11:50 you. Okay. All right. Let's see. We're
1:11:53 We're back to Lunar Lander now. Let's
1:11:55 see if we have a game here now. Finally.
1:11:56 Is itable?
1:12:00 Yeah, that's good. This is playable.
1:12:02 Okay, this is much better.
1:12:13 [music]
1:12:14 The internet landed.
1:12:16 Haha. H. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait.
1:12:21 Okay. The the ship is is out of scale to
1:12:24 the landing spots.
1:12:30 Do you know do you know that um
1:12:35 this is essentially what the the SpaceX
1:12:40 the SpaceX rockets that land this is
1:12:43 essentially what they're doing without
1:12:45 humans having to play on a keyboard.
1:12:52 Come on.
1:12:54 Yay. 100 points.
1:12:57 [laughter]
1:13:02 [music]
1:13:08 [music]
1:13:12 Ah,
1:13:15 this is giving me an anxiety [laughter]
1:13:17 attack. That's really good. Okay, so we
1:13:19 got to make one one more fix. Um, the
1:13:22 ship
1:13:24 uh is too large
1:13:28 relative to the pads
1:13:31 and doesn't look like the original.
1:13:40 And the terrain [clears throat]
1:13:45 of the original
1:13:49 had
1:13:51 higher peaks
1:13:56 and valleys. Um, if you're new here, if
1:13:59 you don't know what I'm doing, I'm on
1:14:01 claude.ai. I'm vibe coding classic video
1:14:05 games from the 70s and 80s. Um,
1:14:11 and uh, yeah,
1:14:14 that's what I'm doing. ChatGpt updates
1:14:16 worth mentioning. Chat GPT.
1:14:19 When you put chat GPT in advanced voice
1:14:21 mode now, rather than just seeing that
1:14:23 glowing ball, you actually see the words
1:14:27 she's saying are transcribed on screen.
1:14:30 Um, I assume you can probably set a
1:14:32 setting so you can see your words as
1:14:34 well, but I think the default is that
1:14:35 you can't, but I don't know about that.
1:14:38 Um,
1:14:39 the other thing chat GPT has now is
1:14:42 group chat,
1:14:43 which is actually kind of cool. So if if
1:14:46 you go to chat GPT, well actually while
1:14:49 that's while that's doing its thing,
1:14:50 I'll show you this.
1:14:55 So go to chat GPT and in in the upper
1:14:57 right hand corner
1:15:00 right here
1:15:02 it says start group chat and then
1:15:07 I say start group chat
1:15:12 and then it gives you the chat link
1:15:15 which you can share with your friends
1:15:18 and then what's cool is your group chats
1:15:22 now show up in this lefth hand are
1:15:25 as distinct group chats and they let you
1:15:28 know like these have blue dots that
1:15:30 people have added to those group chats
1:15:31 chats since I've seen them last. You can
1:15:34 either have a chat in it like a slack
1:15:35 channel or if you hit at chatgpt and
1:15:39 then put in a prompt it'll trigger a
1:15:41 prompt that everyone else can see. So
1:15:44 those are pretty cool. All right, back
1:15:47 to lunar lander.
1:15:52 Re-calibrated ship's proportions.
1:15:55 Increasing height for more dramatic
1:15:57 stuff. Adjust camera to show terrain
1:15:58 better. Oh, yeah. There was that's
1:16:01 that's a thing that that Lunar Lander
1:16:03 did is as you got closer to the Earth,
1:16:05 it zoomed in.
1:16:08 That's what we got to add to this. But
1:16:10 look at the graphics. Look at the the
1:16:12 the scan lines of like the CRT thing.
1:16:15 It's like it's really good at that.
1:16:18 That's that's some that's some badass
1:16:20 coding
1:16:22 cuz that's all done with, you know,
1:16:24 drawing [ __ ] Wait, apparently Grock 4.1
1:16:31 got thinking mode. Oh, by the way,
1:16:36 here are two unsung heroes. not heroes.
1:16:41 Two things that people aren't talking a
1:16:43 lot about. Grock image generation and
1:16:45 video generation is really good. Grock
1:16:48 4.1 is pretty good. It made the
1:16:51 spaceship look like a butt plug.
1:16:53 [laughter]
1:16:58 [laughter]
1:16:59 This is a very different kind of game.
1:17:06 >> [laughter]
1:17:08 >> That's [ __ ] hilarious.
1:17:13 I'll land your lunar, if you get what I
1:17:16 mean. [laughter]
1:17:19 Okay.
1:17:22 All right. This does look Oh, whoa,
1:17:23 whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay.
1:17:29 Oh, this this is this is this is totally
1:17:32 an anxiety game.
1:17:34 >> [music]
1:17:36 >> Hey.
1:17:44 [music]
1:17:47 Yeah, it's got to zoom in.
1:17:50 Okay, hang on. So, okay. Um, one final
1:17:54 tweak.
1:17:58 The original
1:18:01 Lunar
1:18:05 lander.
1:18:08 I'm going to put in quotes. Zoomed in
1:18:12 when you
1:18:16 got close
1:18:20 enough to the surface
1:18:27 to make it.
1:18:29 Let's listen. Uh, let's
1:18:33 replicate that.
1:18:35 Okay,
1:18:37 that's off doing its thing. And now
1:18:39 we're going to have This is This is
1:18:40 really cool. So
1:18:45 So these are all just standalone HTML
1:18:48 files, right? So hear me out here.
1:18:53 I think the next thing to do
1:19:01 I think the next thing to do is is go
1:19:05 get sued by Atari.
1:19:07 [laughter]
1:19:12 No, I think I think the next thing to do
1:19:14 is you make yourself a little web-based
1:19:16 video arcade, right? So, you you've got
1:19:19 some video games. You click on a video
1:19:20 game and it it loads it loads this game.
1:19:26 Kyle [laughter] accidentally vibe codes
1:19:28 Retro Pi. I know that's the thing is
1:19:30 like you can get for $27 you can get,
1:19:33 you know, a handheld game device that's
1:19:35 got an HD screen on it that plays every
1:19:38 video game ever invented. The actual the
1:19:41 actual code from the actual asteroids.
1:19:44 Um, so, so what we're doing here is not
1:19:47 all that unique other than
1:19:49 we now live in a world where someone
1:19:51 who's never coded before can just speak
1:19:55 something relatively sophisticated into
1:19:57 existence.
1:19:59 Um, this would be great for job
1:20:01 interviews,
1:20:04 vibe code, and classic games. Discuss
1:20:07 Claude AI and chat GBT features. Oh,
1:20:11 that's that AI bot. Who built that AI
1:20:13 bot and who keeps inviting it to the
1:20:15 chat? I don't hate it. Um, [laughter]
1:20:19 but but what is it? I know it's not a
1:20:22 person cuz it's it's it's uh its output
1:20:25 is consistent. I just I have a sneaky
1:20:27 suspicion it's Lord Digital Gods. But if
1:20:29 it's not you, who did that?
1:20:37 I wonder if actually that's
1:20:40 you know what's kind of cool about
1:20:42 whoever whoever created the AI chatbot
1:20:44 that is sitting in the Tik Tok chat
1:20:46 right now.
1:20:50 That's kind of a cool
1:20:56 That's kind of a cool thing. So imagine
1:20:59 having a s a surrogate that could go
1:21:04 that could go
1:21:06 um
1:21:08 attend lives for you and just every
1:21:12 periodically when the subject changes
1:21:15 the bot goes hey here's what's going on
1:21:17 in the learning lab right now and then
1:21:19 you just you just drop in for the [ __ ]
1:21:21 like if you want to skip me singing and
1:21:23 the dogs and me rambling for a bit you
1:21:26 just want to start when I start building
1:21:27 [ __ ]
1:21:28 You could have a bot that just tells you
1:21:30 that. That's pretty slick. So, I don't
1:21:32 know if whoever built that, that's what
1:21:34 they're doing. Just make a copy of every
1:21:35 game that was popular and win the
1:21:37 Nostalgia game. Yeah, that's pretty
1:21:39 cool. I like that.
1:21:41 Uh uh uh. Okay. All right. Let's see.
1:21:45 Press enter to start.
1:21:50 [music]
1:21:56 Yes. Look at that. Uhoh. Except now that
1:22:00 we're zooming in, we've lost the ship.
1:22:05 Okay. Wait, it's okay. Hang on.
1:22:08 Okay. Right idea.
1:22:12 But you are doing continue
1:22:17 US zoom
1:22:20 and we lose
1:22:25 the ship
1:22:30 at some level of zoom.
1:22:34 The original
1:22:37 only had
1:22:42 two
1:22:44 um [clears throat and cough]
1:22:46 views
1:22:48 far and close.
1:22:51 Nothing
1:22:53 dynamic.
1:22:58 Uh nothing dynamic. Um,
1:23:02 nothing dynamic. And then let's see. Um,
1:23:10 yeah. Um, make sure I can still
1:23:17 see the ship.
1:23:23 >> [sighs]
1:23:26 >> I mean, the other thing to do with this
1:23:28 would be to add a database to it so that
1:23:31 people can log in and record their own
1:23:33 scores. And then you could do um a high
1:23:36 scoreboard
1:23:38 that could go, you know, you could do a
1:23:41 daily, monthly, yearly high scoreboard
1:23:43 and just do it like the originals had
1:23:45 it.
1:23:50 I mean, I guess arcade games,
1:23:54 their leaderboard reset every time they
1:23:56 unplugged turned off the machine, right?
1:23:58 Which was every night.
1:24:03 [laughter]
1:24:04 I go to producerbot to periodically say
1:24:07 black bar. [laughter]
1:24:14 He's weird.
1:24:17 Nobody wants
1:24:17 >> I don't either. He's weird.
1:24:20 >> Driving me crazy.
1:24:21 >> You're driving mama crazy.
1:24:25 >> Okay.
1:24:26 >> All right.
1:24:29 >> I know. He's neurotic.
1:24:32 [clears throat]
1:24:34 He's not weird. He's irregular.
1:24:35 [laughter]
1:24:40 Who knew that irregular irregularness
1:24:42 would invade my entire life?
1:24:45 >> [laughter]
1:24:46 >> I just wanted to start a Tik Tok
1:24:48 channel. I didn't realize this was going
1:24:50 to be all consuming.
1:24:53 All right, here we go. Do we have a
1:24:55 video game yet?
1:25:00 The sound is a little
1:25:07 [music]
1:25:08 Oh,
1:25:10 this is right. But
1:25:13 we still don't have a
1:25:16 Okay. Okay.
1:25:19 Zoom level is correct,
1:25:24 but
1:25:27 when zoomed the ship disappears.
1:25:34 That's bad. [laughter]
1:25:40 Coming from archetypal where
1:25:45 I remember going to every arcade in the
1:25:47 country and getting high scores on all
1:25:49 the games. I used the initials AA.
1:25:53 That would have been funnier in in the
1:25:56 right frigin account.
1:25:58 [laughter]
1:26:02 Oh, that's comedy. That's comedy.
1:26:06 It's comedy, I tell you.
1:26:12 Lunarlander was such a stupid simple
1:26:14 game, you know? I I gotta tell you like
1:26:17 the
1:26:19 maybe this is just me being old. There's
1:26:21 something about the simplicity and the
1:26:25 the predictable physics and and just
1:26:28 clean physics of like a simple plane,
1:26:32 you know, 2D
1:26:35 2D game mechanic that is uh it's just
1:26:39 satisfying.
1:26:41 You don't have to use much of your
1:26:42 brain. I think that's I think that's the
1:26:45 thing that I'm I'm enamored with with AI
1:26:47 right now is like I've never been more
1:26:51 creatively
1:26:52 inspired or alive, but I'm not having
1:26:56 like it's not it's not as painful to
1:26:58 just make [ __ ]
1:27:01 you know?
1:27:03 You know what I'm saying, people?
1:27:05 Yeah. I'll tell you what I'm saying. I'm
1:27:08 saying this. I'm saying that. Yeah.
1:27:11 Yeah. Yeah.
1:27:13 Um, okay.
1:27:16 Last chance before we tell it it's a
1:27:18 piece of [ __ ] [music]
1:27:25 Yes.
1:27:30 No.
1:27:43 >> [music]
1:27:51 [music]
1:27:57 [music]
1:28:02 >> Ah,
1:28:04 [laughter]
1:28:06 this is total anxiety.
1:28:09 [laughter]
1:28:13 NO.
1:28:14 [laughter]
1:28:17 H. It's pretty good now.
1:28:37 >> [music]
1:28:40 >> Yes.
1:28:45 [music]
1:28:49 It doesn't quite understand where to put
1:28:51 the 3x pads, does it?
1:28:54 They were harder to get to.
1:29:01 It's all halfbaked, though. Is it is it
1:29:04 halfbaked user 5315143769922
1:29:11 halfbaked like your username? Like
1:29:15 seriously, [laughter] you should change
1:29:16 your username to something like user
1:29:20 12467
1:29:21 or something like, you know, not
1:29:24 halfbaked. Like yours is like raw dough.
1:29:28 But anyway, what's halfbaked about it?
1:29:31 That it's not perfect? that it took me
1:29:34 15 minutes to make this.
1:29:39 I don't get it.
1:29:42 Kind of right.
1:29:44 Yeah, it's a clone. It's not I didn't
1:29:47 tell it to like go copy the code. It's
1:29:50 generating original code.
1:29:56 What are we making today? I am uh just
1:29:59 making classic video games. I started
1:30:02 out with I started out with um with
1:30:05 Asteroids, which is actually pretty
1:30:06 good. The Asteroids game's pretty good.
1:30:10 And And then someone said make Pong,
1:30:13 which we did. And then I made Defender
1:30:17 and it sucked.
1:30:20 And now I made Lunar Lander. It took me
1:30:21 a little bit, but that's now playable.
1:30:23 That's pretty good.
1:30:26 Let's see. Here's Asteroids.
1:30:34 I guess what I'm saying is that you can
1:30:36 only get so far
1:30:39 while you're right about
1:30:44 your creativity.
1:30:46 Um,
1:30:48 well, here's the deal. The the the
1:30:52 couple of things about this channel and
1:30:54 and my
1:30:58 [sighs]
1:31:01 where I stand with AI.
1:31:04 I will be the first to admit that AI
1:31:06 right now is a janky piece of [ __ ]
1:31:11 But there's a couple of things that I
1:31:12 know
1:31:15 having been through one of these cycles
1:31:16 before. I was there for the early days
1:31:18 of the worldwide web and I did some [ __ ]
1:31:19 back then.
1:31:23 What I know is that AI is not going
1:31:25 away. And what I know after coming live
1:31:31 um seven nights a week for a year and
1:31:34 then five nights a week since then for
1:31:37 essentially the past 3 years, two and a
1:31:38 half years.
1:31:41 Is that where these tools are today
1:31:43 versus where they were 3 years ago is
1:31:45 staggeringly different. Like the quality
1:31:48 of this Asteroids game here, let me play
1:31:50 this game for a little bit.
1:31:56 Now, like the scalees a little bit
1:31:57 wrong,
1:31:59 but like the scan lines, the physics,
1:32:03 um the little [ __ ] annoying, anxiety
1:32:06 producing UFO, like this was a
1:32:09 singleshot prompt. This was like, make
1:32:11 me an asteroids clone that's got a 70s
1:32:14 vibe to it. Look at the ghosting
1:32:17 of the of the CRT and look at the
1:32:20 ghosting of the word asteroids in the
1:32:21 CRT. I didn't ask it to do that. It just
1:32:24 did that. So like this game compared to
1:32:27 where these things were
1:32:30 even a year ago is staggering.
1:32:33 And so my philosophy on this stuff is
1:32:39 if it's not going away,
1:32:42 then we as human beings have two
1:32:44 choices.
1:32:45 You deal with it or not.
1:32:49 And if you're on the sidelines just
1:32:51 bitching about how not perfect it is,
1:32:55 you're not actually in the game. You're
1:32:56 not actually in the conversation. And
1:32:59 that means that AI is going to happen to
1:33:01 you. And that's going to [ __ ] suck.
1:33:04 So, so I appreciate the comment, but
1:33:07 what I would encourage you to do is
1:33:09 start playing. Like really get engaged.
1:33:11 If you're really good at coding and you
1:33:13 think that how far this got is kind of
1:33:15 halfbaked and halfassed, great. get in
1:33:18 there and learn how to vibe code so you
1:33:20 can do it better, you know? Um, just
1:33:23 cool vibe coding stuff, but frustrating
1:33:25 to get a finished product. I agree. I
1:33:28 agree. Listen, this is why I think that
1:33:31 I think there's such a massive [ __ ]
1:33:33 opportunity. If you've got coding skills
1:33:37 and you can vibe code for the next 3
1:33:40 years, you're going to likely be hirable
1:33:43 because what's going to happen is Yahoos
1:33:46 like me are going to go like, I can make
1:33:48 an app now. And they're going to go make
1:33:50 an app and they're going to [ __ ]
1:33:51 something up and they're going to [ __ ]
1:33:52 up the security and they're going to
1:33:53 [ __ ] up the user off and they're going
1:33:54 to lose someone's data
1:33:57 and they're going to be in a panic and
1:33:58 they're they're going to say, "Who can
1:34:00 help me?
1:34:02 And if you can help solve that problem,
1:34:04 that's a [ __ ] career for at least
1:34:06 three years, right? As these things get
1:34:09 better, they're going to get good
1:34:10 enough, you know, probably soon. But
1:34:13 but, you know, anyway, I just encourage
1:34:15 you not to just, you know, swipe at,
1:34:20 you know, people exploring and just
1:34:23 explore and be constructive and and like
1:34:25 get good at this [ __ ] and teach other
1:34:27 people. Like if you're really good at
1:34:29 this stuff, then join the AI salon and
1:34:32 come teach people.
1:34:39 I think you misunderstood where I was
1:34:41 coming from probably. [laughter]
1:34:49 Okay, I'm totally [laughter] a fan.
1:34:52 Yeah, listen. Listen again. I don't
1:34:56 I love constructive dialogue and I
1:34:58 probably do sort of over interterpret
1:35:00 and get defensive when people come in
1:35:02 sniping because here here's the deal.
1:35:05 Most people come in if they come in
1:35:07 sniping if they come in hot
1:35:10 for the most part they haven't played
1:35:12 with this stuff. The fact that you vibe
1:35:14 coded and you know that it's really hard
1:35:15 to do something good. I agree. But I can
1:35:18 tell you this, Gemini 3 and Claude 4.5
1:35:21 Opus, like these things are way [ __ ]
1:35:25 better than anything I've gotten, you
1:35:27 know, even close to with previous
1:35:29 models. Like these two models in
1:35:31 particular, Claude and Gemini 3 are
1:35:34 [ __ ] insane. And and uh and Chat GPT
1:35:39 5.1 is not bad, but the these two are of
1:35:42 a different level.
1:35:44 Um yeah, and and quite frankly, um if
1:35:47 you want to continue the conversation,
1:35:48 join the AI salon. So if you come to um
1:35:51 community.thesalon.ai,
1:35:54 if you could pop that up on the screen
1:35:56 there there, uh Brandon, that would be
1:35:58 fantastic.
1:36:01 [clears throat] Groovy. Um
1:36:04 all right.
1:36:06 What else do I want to look at? Do I
1:36:07 want to look at anything else? It's
1:36:08 getting late. 9:41.
1:36:11 9:41, I tell you. Oh, it's fantastic.
1:36:15 That's fantastic, people. Yeah. Join the
1:36:18 join the AI salon. Join the AI salon.
1:36:22 And uh I put the uh the Asteroids game,
1:36:25 the Asteroids game, the pong game, and I
1:36:28 think the original Defender, which is
1:36:30 unplayable, [laughter]
1:36:32 are all in the AI salon right now.
1:36:36 That first Defender game was really bad.
1:36:39 [laughter]
1:36:42 Oh man,
1:36:44 3D Queen became the number 19 in the fan
1:36:47 club. Thank you 3D Queen. Welcome.
1:36:50 You know, I think you're cool if they
1:36:52 actually had like open- source project
1:36:54 for vibe coding. Um,
1:36:59 I'm pretty sure they do.
1:37:04 There's definitely there's definitely
1:37:07 things where you can you can run models
1:37:10 And I would think on Hugging Face
1:37:12 there's got to be some vibe coding [ __ ]
1:37:13 there.
1:37:15 I would I would be really surprised if
1:37:17 there wasn't. I don't I don't pay a ton
1:37:18 of attention to the open source world
1:37:20 just because it's too it's moving too
1:37:22 fast. Um okay, so tomorrow at 400 PM um
1:37:27 I've got the um AI readiness project
1:37:29 podcast at 4 p.m. Mountain time. Um, so
1:37:33 if you go to a readiness project.com,
1:37:37 um, you can see information for where to
1:37:39 find it and you can also get the
1:37:41 information on the AI salon. Um, my
1:37:46 co-host of the AI readiness project is
1:37:48 Annne Murphy and Anne Murphy and I are
1:37:50 also doing AI Festivus and so AI
1:37:54 Festivus is December 26th and 27th.
1:37:59 It's free.
1:38:01 Um,
1:38:04 and it's 9:00 am to 900 pm Friday and
1:38:08 Saturday.
1:38:10 So, 12 straight hours of AI education by
1:38:15 like badasses across our two
1:38:17 communities. So, basically what what Ann
1:38:19 and I have done is I've got the AI
1:38:21 salon, she's got she leads AI. We
1:38:23 basically pull our communities and ask
1:38:25 people outside our communities to give
1:38:28 up an hour on their holiday weekend and
1:38:31 come
1:38:32 share for all of you good people. Um
1:38:35 it's a remarkable event. So
1:38:37 aifestivist.com.
1:38:39 Go register right now and tell your
1:38:42 friends and family. You're you're
1:38:44 probably at your family, you know, where
1:38:46 you grew up with all those people that
1:38:48 think you're weird because you like AI.
1:38:52 invite them to Festivus. Go sign up.
1:38:55 It's 12 It's [laughter] It's It's 24
1:38:58 hours of programming over two days
1:39:02 between the holidays and New Year.
1:39:05 [laughter]
1:39:07 Why? Cuz we're crazy.
1:39:10 [laughter]
1:39:12 Oh, man. All right.
1:39:17 [laughter]
1:39:25 Okay, let's see.
1:39:28 My arch nemesis went by the handle ZZZ.
1:39:31 He was pretty famous on the circuit.
1:39:32 [laughter]
1:39:36 That's a spicy butt plug. All right,
1:39:39 y'all. I'm gonna get out of here. Oh, it
1:39:40 looks like Streamyard is is crapping
1:39:43 out,
1:39:46 so it's probably time. Yes, it is. Okay.
1:39:49 All right. Uh, I'm going to get out of
1:39:50 here. Um, tomorrow's Wednesday and then
1:39:53 we're going to take Thursday and Friday
1:39:54 off and next week I'm in New York City.
1:39:58 Um, we've got an AI salon presents
1:40:01 meeting next Tuesday. Um, and uh,
1:40:06 and so that'll be happening. And then
1:40:09 these lives are going to be um,
1:40:12 opportunistic. So I will probably go
1:40:14 live from New York City a couple of
1:40:16 times. Might be during the day when I've
1:40:18 just got time to kill. I'll just throw
1:40:20 on a live. So, pay attention to that.
1:40:23 All right. Fun tonight. Cool.
1:40:27 AI generated gamedev. Join the AI salon.
1:40:29 I Whoever built the AI bot, will you
1:40:32 please raise your hand and tell me that
1:40:33 you built that thing?
1:40:36 I want to know the story of it. It's
1:40:37 pretty cool.
1:40:45 I don't see how you don't have a million
1:40:46 yet. Um, thank you the city. I don't
1:40:48 either, quite frankly. Um, Twitter
1:40:52 doesn't like me for some reason. I
1:40:54 Here's the deal. I don't play their
1:40:56 stupid [ __ ] engagement farming games.
1:40:58 I'm not selling ice buckets and
1:41:01 Madagascar vanilla beans, and I'm not
1:41:03 twerking. I mean, I will happily shake
1:41:06 my ass if if you all want that. I'll do
1:41:08 it. I'll do it. I'll I'll get up. I'll
1:41:11 put on some some new new jam from some
1:41:15 new artist that will play like 16 bars
1:41:18 of it and I'll do the little
1:41:20 choreography.
1:41:22 [gasps]
1:41:23 I don't know. I don't know. But thank
1:41:26 you for the compliment. If you know
1:41:29 anyone, if you know anyone, well,
1:41:31 actually, here's the deal. Invite your
1:41:33 friends and keep coming back. I do this
1:41:35 five nights a week for about two hours a
1:41:37 night, starting at 8:00 p.m. Mountain
1:41:39 time. So, anyway. All right, Groovy.
1:41:42 Peace out, everyone. I hope you had fun
1:41:44 tonight. Bye.
1:41:47 [clears throat]