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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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Battle Drones—a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer

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2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Simon Willison Daniel Hutchinson

“OK, that headache bug was really bad! It inspired me to add proper online multiplayer to Battle Drones (via a tiny @fly.io hosted WebSockets relay server) - now you can start an online game and send a link to a friend so they can join you simonwillison.net/…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

11632d03 358c 454b af95 d06d4072932b

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Simon Willison Sung Kim Mary Branscombe

“"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! www.ft.com/content/116…”

“Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Sung Kim: Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...
Gus: why do you think so? (not a challenge!!, real curiosity)
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