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Tinker Tuesday for July 28th, 2026

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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I've also noticed Opus 5 has improved even since the last big jump in November. It's seriously impressive now: I give it a task and it does it, writes good tests and makes them pass, all on its own. I'm writing barely anything by hand, although still read its output and ask for refactors, because I'm still noticing subtle mistakes (maybe all spec issues, my fault, but still) and redundancies (definitely not spec).

My moral principle is that publishing AI content is good, as long as it's disclosed and you avoid places that explicitly disallow it. Don't be one of those assholes that pastes obvious LLM output saying everything is 100% human, just state upfront "I used AI because I wouldn't have made it otherwise".

I say nothing at all on the matter. The mod is exactly as advertised: it adds a bunch of guns to Rimworld. The guns function, and look good. It is immaterial to me how such a product comes into existence, as long as it does what it says on the tin. God knows I wouldn't have bothered to make anything of that scope if I had to do it all manually. I could, it's not impossible, and I've made one mod on my own, but something like this wouldn't happen.