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Why are people still upvoting obvious AI slop garbage?

1. Claude couldn’t do a proper fence algorithm for the walls?

2. Controls feel horrible.

3. It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man? You do not move fast enough and the Pac-Man AI is programmed for perfection so it does not make deliberate mistakes for the human player to take advantage of.

4. The tile based movement is not smooth, very stuttery.

Fine for a prototype, but we could do so much better. This is not a particular hard game to code up in an afternoon or even an hour if you’re experienced.

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> It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man?

I caught him! So it's definitely possible. You move a little bit faster than he does so you need to anticipate where he's going.

You don't even need to anticipate, you can just push him towards the bottom and follow, he just goes in a loop so eventually you'll catch up. I caught him first try without thinking of any strategy. The controls are horrid though.

  Why are people still upvoting obvious AI slop garbage?

Because it looks good enough to "pass". People are consuming low quality content all the time.

  It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man?

Not true.

  You do not move fast enough

Not true.

  the Pac-Man AI is programmed for perfection

So is it slop or programmed for perfection, which one is it? :)

> So is it slop or programmed for perfection, which one is it?

I’m not going to comment on the code (I abandoned the page early due to the terrible controls) but there’s no contradiction in that part you’re commenting on. “Slop” doesn’t just mean “doesn’t work”; “programmed for perfection so it does not make deliberate mistakes” doesn’t mean “the code is perfect”.

To output text in a terminal you could use `echo`, but you could also write a 500 line function which does a bunch of unrelated garbage then finally outputs the text perfectly (i.e. no mistakes). That doesn’t mean the code is good or even acceptable or desirable, even if the outcome is technically correct.

Fair enough!

> So is it slop or programmed for perfection, which one is it? :)

I don’t think you understand. In games it’s not good to program an AI to be a perfect actor, because the difficulty becomes too insane for a human player. You want an AI that deliberately makes mistakes or suboptimal choices sometimes, and where its difficulty can be scaled. Being programmed for perfection is not a compliment.

> 3. It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man? You do not move fast enough and the Pac-Man AI is programmed for perfection so it does not make deliberate mistakes for the human player to take advantage of.

It's not impossible. I just did. You just have to corner the man into an impossible situation. But I agree on the AI-slop or lack of quality production.

Just down vote and move on. You're helping them generate better slop by providing input like this

You can’t downvote submissions, only comments.

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