Spectralis devlog #52
—Hello again proggers—
Landed on the album for the first public 3D world: CHASER by femtanyl. Working on the album design now. Also had a moment of pure hubris — tried to offload a small bug onto Claude instead of finding it myself, and that went about as well as you’d expect.
“i’ll just let claude find it” is my new “how hard could it be”
Cat or dog? git revert HEAD
Okay let’s get into it~
—Yap—
Following devlog #51’s plan to build a real EP into the first public 3D world, the album’s locked in now. Also learned a valuable lesson about delegation this round, courtesy of one very confident, very wrong AI rewrite.
—The Great Suffering—
1 — The Album: CHASER By femtanyl
Decided on CHASER as the album going into the first public 3D world. Working through album design now — laying out how the tracks translate into the world’s structure and visuals.
2 — Delegated A Bug To Claude, Regretted It
Had a small bug I was too lazy to actually track down myself, so figured I’d just hand it off. Claude rewrote a large chunk of the surrounding code in the process, made it genuinely unreadable, and still didn’t fix the actual bug. Net negative outcome on every axis.
3 — Reverted, Found It Myself
Rolled the whole thing back with git, thank god for version control, and just found the bug the old-fashioned way instead. Sometimes the “lazy” shortcut costs more time than the thing it was supposed to save.
thanks git, my one reliable coworker tonight
4 — The Art Is Hard: Token Specifically
Working on the visualizer art now, and one character in particular — Token — is turning out to be surprisingly difficult to draw well. Full visualizer expected in a day or two once the art actually comes together.
—FAQ (no one asked these but they are here)—
Q: What is a “progger”?
A: A human programmer. You. The one who learned the hard way that delegating a bug isn’t always faster than fixing it yourself.
Q: Is this the EP world from devlog #51?
A: Same project, now with the actual album picked — CHASER by femtanyl.
Q: What went wrong with the Claude delegation specifically?
A: Rewrote surrounding code into something unreadable, didn’t fix the bug, had to be reverted entirely.
Q: When’s the full visualizer dropping?
A: A day or two, mainly gated on finishing the art, Token specifically being the hard part.
Q: Any lessons for next time?
A: Probably just fix the small ones yourself. Noted.
—This is the end*—
*end for now, git reverts permitting
PRETTY!!!