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interns for all showing up. Today we
have an extremely special episode. We
had both Casey Miratory and Began and I
going to two separate very amazing
conferences.
Uh anyways, sorry. So open you guys,
while this was happening, you were at
something called open sauce, which to me
sounds like what happens when you open
sauce. Like I'm going to pour it onto
something.
>> Oh, I like it, Casey. But I don't know.
That's just a literal.
>> Northeast was a New England accent. Open
sauce. But you you coat in open sauce.
>> Yeah.
>> That's how that's how I That's how I
pictured it.
>> Like like you got open the sauce. You
got to open that sauce. Stir the sauce.
Open the sauce. Put it on stuff. I don't
know.
>> That That was really good.
>> I'm from Massachusetts.
>> I'm literally from Massachusetts.
>> That's why I can't do it. Like when when
I used to play little league the for the
town the next town over
>> Maynard uh they had like super super
strong Boston accents like with the with
and saying like retad all the time
always like that's they're always like
they're like that's [ __ ] Come on
that's totally [ __ ] [laughter] all
the time. Everything you do like if if
you strike out that's [ __ ] You're
like
>> get Casey back to Massachusetts. See the
accent come back out. We're definitely
going to plan something there.
>> Dying. Anyway, so open source prime,
tell the audience about open source. You
went to open source. Where was it? Is
that in California? I don't even know.
I've never even been to open I even
heard of open source before I heard you
guys.
>> Casey just actually talked like this all
the time.
>> Casey, can you can you say welcome to
computerenhance.com or something?
>> Sure. Welcome.com.
We got a lot of great programming stuff
for you to do here. We look at the code.
We look at the assembly language. We see
how long it's taken. I don't know. It's
not my problem. You I ran the thing the
benchmarks it ran crappy. So, we uh we
tried to fix it. The process is a piece
of [ __ ] I don't know what's going on.
Anyway, I'm going to go make some uh
linguini.
[laughter]
>> That's really good.
>> Oh, I wish I could do that.
>> I wish I could do that, too. I'm
Afterwards, I'm going to take this
recording and just like sit in my
[laughter] room and be like
retal.
Yeah,
>> I love that. Um, okay. So, little little
fun fact about open source. It was its
fourth year as a conference. I believe
the original intent was after MakerFair
went out of business or stopped
happening. There was no um alternative.
There was nothing where a bunch of
people who build stuff can get together
and show people that they build stuff.
If you're anything like me, you have a
bunch of ideas, but perhaps you're a bit
disorganized. So often I find myself
having a long brainstorming session, but
at the end of it I just have a big
markdown file and then of course at that
point I've lost everything. Hey, stop
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and use the linear MCP. I have a big
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ideas and at the end I get a set of
tickets that are actually all the things
that I need to do. And when I don't know
what to work on, I go, "Hey agent, go to
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next." And it will find exactly what I
need to work on. This has been so
successful for me that I'm in actual
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Go to linear.app/terminal
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Thank you for supporting the channel and
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>> Can you can for those of us who don't
really know much about this, can you
also explain kind of what MakerFair was
cuz I I was kind of out of the loop on
that too. I've never been to MakerFair,
but the general the general vibe that
I've I've gathered from it is that like,
you know, there's a bunch of people that
just make things, 3D print them,
hardware, kind of slap everything
together, and it's like, look, home
arcade. Look, I've made, you know, this
this is a wheelchair that goes 40 miles
an hour. Like,
>> cool. Okay.
>> Like that kind of stuff. Like I've [ __ ]
Yeah.
>> Yeah. Stuff that's very unusual. Like
the first year I went, the first one of
the first things I saw was somebody made
the International Space Station and it
would position itself
>> and like near an Earth orbit for exactly
where it was, including its like
rotation and all that and like so it's
like it's nothing that's like super
useful, but a lot of like just super
cool things that happened. Um, so it's
pretty it's pretty dang awesome. And so
the first year I went was three years
ago. So, I I didn't go to the first Open
Sauce, I went to the second Open Sauce,
and it was an absolutely amazing
experience. So, of course, I went last
year. Absolutely amazing experience.
That's where I got to meet uh Eric
Comment etiquette. If you know Comment
Etiquette, one of my favorite YouTube
channels, he's the one that shows you
how to uh have proper and polite
discourse on the internet.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. It's very funny. A lot of like
Hillary deleted her emails type stuff
and all that. Bush did 911 inside job
and just the most unhinged emails all or
the most unhinged comments of all time.
Very funny.
>> Okay, perfect. So this is facitiously
facitiously.
>> Yes. I think he was a write he was a
writer for several years on Always
Sunny. Is that is that what it was?
>> Oh wow. Okay.
>> He was a writer on some show for a long
time. Very funny guy. Like when you
>> it's it's I forget what it was but very
very good. Um
>> anyways very funny guy.
>> He uh so got to meet a bunch like you
get like a lot of really cool YouTubers
are there. Michael Reeves, Doug Doug,
William Osman, Backyard Scientist, like
all these primogen,
>> I was there as well. Uh, Beeganot may
have heard of him. Pretty awesome.
>> Well, Casey, if there's anyone on
YouTube, you'll be like, wait, who's
that person? They have a giant line. You
find out that's a person who's a
chemistry YouTuber who has 10 million
and they build the most dangerous
chemicals every week and almost die. And
then, wait, who's that right there? It's
like they make home rockets and have 10
million subs. And people every single
variation of science there's someone
there doing it at a intense large level
in their backyard and like
>> and almost dying
>> and a lot of them backyard big part of
it
>> asterric right it's just like all all
>> there's a lot of like don't try this at
home. No really don't try this at home.
Yes.
>> Yes. Most of them they're like, "I don't
even have to warn you because you don't
have this $150,000 machine that also
needs a $150,000 processor that also
like it's just like you don't you unless
if you're a giant company, you won't
even have these things." So, it's like
they're just crazy items. There's Have
Have you guys ever read the article?
It's kind of it's old at this point, but
it was called the Atomic Boy Scout.
>> No.
>> So, I feel like uh it what you're saying
just kind of stirred a memory. I'd
forgotten about this, but a long time
ago, there was kind of like the OG don't
do this at home YouTuber before YouTube.
Uh there was a a kid who decided for his
Boy Scout like merit badge, he was going
to try to build a nuclear reactor.
And so he started like buying like old
clocks that had like the radium back
plate on the like biolumines like the
the not bioluminescent the luminescent
>> back plate and scraping it off and he
succeeded in making like a nuclear thing
to the point where uh his backyard ended
up having to kind of be condemned like I
[laughter] it s like I totally had
forgotten about this article. It was
pretty famous and I was like oh that guy
was just a YouTuber before YouTube.
Anyway, continue. Sorry.
>> Yeah. Somebody asked if Styro Pyro was
there. Yes, Drake was there. Styro Pyro
>> definitely was there.
>> Yeah. Like so many people were like Nile
Red, that's the big famous chemical
YouTuber. There's all these people that
you'd go and find and they're they're
like all there. So pretty much every
>> What did you do? What did you do? What
did you do at the conference? Like Okay.
>> So, uh the last couple years I was on
panels, right? We we yapped or I did a
family feud. Kind of just did like joke
stuff with the other uh creators. But
this year they gave me uh the the main
stage for uh 45 minutes which was a lot
of fun. So I got main stage uh Saturday
right in the middle of the day. So 12:40
>> pretty awesome
>> and we threw a very big event which was
fantastic. Effectively like 2,000 plus
people showed up for this event. And so
let me kind of walk you through what
happened cuz I think it was a lot of
fun. Uh photos and stuff are going to be
coming out and I'm sure we'll have a
video and all that at some point, but
right now you're just gonna we're gonna
have to go ac capella on this one. Okay.
>> Was Te there or is it just you and me?
>> Oh yes.
>> Oh, I'm going to tell you all about it.
>> That's why that's why Teach isn't here
right now.
>> Oh, cuz he partied a little too hard.
>> Oh my I Yes.
>> Dude, he drank I saw him at one point
drink three Coca-Cas in a single
evening. [laughter]
>> What?
>> He had two Cokes in his hand. He's like,
I don't want to get back in line. I was
getting two at a time. And we were like
>> ca caffeine free, I assume. He was on
Coke Zeros.
>> No, they were real CocaCas. Holy cow.
All right. Well, he So, he's in like
rehab now or what?
>> Yeah. Yeah. He's He's detoxing right
now. Cool. Well, hey, man. Sometimes you
go a little too Sometimes life gets away
from you.
>> Yeah, I know. He's on a caffeine drip
right now to kind of ease himself back
into, you know, reality.
>> Good idea.
>> Uh the funny like fun little fun
backstory when I asked like, "Hey, I
think I got an event that's pretty cool.
You should let me throw it." The answer
from the um from the organizers were uh
you know we're really full. I just don't
think we can do it. And then I showed
them a video of what we were thinking
and they're like oh yeah how about like
how about noon on Saturday? Let's do
this. And so I was like all right this
is awesome because it was a fun show. So
the premise of the idea is that we're
going to get on stage
>> and we have a Nintendo GameCube
>> a proper copy of uh Super Smash
Brothers. put it in there and then teach
presses a couple buttons and boom, up on
the main stage on the big screen is
Super Smash Brothers.
>> But here's the twist
>> is that we have created and Melee of
course. Yes, Melee obviously. Uh
>> we have created a program where bots
written in Python play the game, but
when we start it the first time,
everyone just stands there.
>> Then someone will jump,
you know, then someone else will jump
like very like nothing, right? So
they're they're empty bots. And then
what we do is we show some QR codes on
the screen and say, "Okay, everyone from
the audience.
We're going to divvy you up into
separate sectors and you get to join in
your sector and you guys all prompt an
LLM to write the code for your bot."
>> And so that way we play the bot via the
Python, but the LLM writes the code for
the bot, but the LLM's instructions are
from the audience. How do you mix all
those prompts together?
>> So, basically like the audience the the
bots are like sitting there and they're
reading like some data file that's like
what they should do or are you hot
swapping the code in like the LMS write
the code and then you swap it in. Yes.
>> Yes.
>> There there's stuff that allows you to
control Super Smash Brothers via Python.
So, it's like the inverted. It's more
like my environment reads the current
state.
>> Okay. Okay, I need to press an A, you
know, like it it instead tells
>> But the point is the audience like when
the audience prompts the LLM, it
generates some Python and then you swap
program. Yes.
>> Okay. Yeah. I was like at somehow their
their has to get onto the thing, right?
>> Yeah. To run Super Smash Brothers from
zero to fight takes about six seconds.
>> Okay. Gotcha.
>> Right. It's it's pretty quick. Uh and
answering trash, what was your question?
>> Oh, how do I get it all summarized after
we send all those messages? is we then
send it off to the LLM to say like hey
pull out every single concept from it
all you know make sure we have
everything that's you know naturally
there. So sometimes it's like uh when
you see somebody you must attack them
right away next line when you see
somebody you must avoid them at all
costs right like you you get the whole
audience and it tries to attempt to
program this thing out and all that and
it's a lot a lot of fun but obviously at
so open source there's 2,000 plus people
in this this room so we couldn't just do
it the normal way. So, I go out there, I
explain what we're going to do, and then
I say, "I need four volunteers." And it
was a fun gag, but it did make me feel a
little bit sad because the first three
rows
>> uniformly stood up and was like, "Me,
me, me, me." Like, they are so excited.
And then off to the side, I had Doug
Doug, Eric, uh, Common Etiquette, Bash
Buddy, and Code Bullet. All four amazing
YouTubers, uh, great content creators.
They're all just standing on the side
with megaphones ready to actually
control the audience. So obviously I
picked those four definitely not planted
uh volunteers to come and say anyone
have a megaphone [laughter]
>> specifically.
>> They just happened to show up with
megaphones cuz they thought it might be
useful.
>> Yes, it might be useful. They just
showed up with it. And so of course they
all four stood up each with their own
section and so they could walk down
their section and yell like what they
think they should do. And then everybody
worked together and it was a lot of fun.
Some of the highlights
uh were that Doug Doug, he was Donkey
Kong and uh for whatever reason enough
of his audience wrote in that they
should grab Jigglypuff,
put Jigglypuff on their head and walk
off the edge, thus killing himself, but
also Jigglypuff. That was a
>> gigantic highlight that just was a lot
of fun. People were screaming so much.
The sound of it was so loud that there
was like this back area like the green
room and stuff like that. Uh it was
reported to me that it was so loud that
people had to quit talking when the
audience would cheer and yell
>> and then they could resume normal
conversation again cuz it was just so
intense.
>> Prime, I think there according to a
rumor from Xanuse, there's footage in
linear right now that you could show the
audience potentially. I don't know if
that's going to happen. I saw some
people ask.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I saw some of it.
It's it's kind of it's hard to it's hard
to get the like the really the big the
big experience here. Zanus, shoot it
over for me because it's not quite
organized in an easy way for me to be
like here's this part cuz I looked
through it and then I didn't have time
to actually like look through it. Zanis,
can you just put it to me in terminal
chat? Nice.
>> I thought we agreed that it was going to
be called Zanus last time.
>> I call him Zanus.
>> Okay, Zan.
>> I don't think I don't think Zanis like
agreed to that one.
>> Zanus. Okay, [laughter] Zanus.
>> I'm pretty sure Zanus loves that one.
Okay, Zanus,
>> I will say every time, so the strategies
is people like so each the crowd was
divided into four. They're in the front
like you know talking with you know uh
megaphones. Code Bullet had one of the
worst rounds ever just Fox like died
instantly. He was he was playing Fox and
the next round for some reason his
audience messed up and they said let's
just do it again. No changes. But
because everyone else had made so many
other changes he ended up winning that
round. He ended up literally living and
>> it was
>> it's very funny. Okay, here we I'm I'm
going to show you guys something, but I
don't I don't think you guys are going
to be able to hear it.
I'm like 99% sure of it. You're not
going to be able to hear it. So, hold
on. The audience, those that are live on
Twitch are going to hear it. Uh, let's
see. Hold on. Let me just
>> I got you. Let Twitch hear it.
>> So, yeah, you're
>> Everybody's ready. All right. Fantastic.
I'm super excited to do this. This is
Super Smash Brothers Melee.
>> Oh my god, dude. I I didn't know about
the mullet. 4 years developing a
wireless game
>> and now we're finally ready to play.
>> Did everyone bring?
>> That looks so epic.
>> You guys didn't bring one.
>> What? We
>> I'm making fun of them for not bringing
controllers.
>> I need four volunteers. I need four
>> four volunteers. We did a great bid cuz
we the total was like 2,000 people
playing a video game. So, check. Grab
out your controllers.
>> Grab your controllers.
>> Yeah. So, we just have a bunch of people
who are ready. So, they all stood on
front of it and so they could all yell
code bullet. So, it turns out the
megaphone that we got him had like a
musical part to it that could go,
you know, like the classic piano song
that everyone can play.
>> Yeah. It's for Elise, I think.
>> For Elise. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Played it non-stop. And then even
the prompt instructions kept saying for
Elise, like win for Elise. It just kept
on it just kept on going and like every
single time I would talk, that same song
would start up again on the megaphone.
There was like it it was just pure chaos
at all times and it worked out so much
better than I ever thought it could have
worked out.
>> Yeah, we're going to we're going to do
another one on Twitch. We're going to
just Twitch only. Twitch chat versus
YouTube chat. I'm forcing Prime to do it
right. We're doing this right. We
actually well well we actually have uh
tried to make some uh potential some
potential like uh partners on this one
and there is a non-zero chance that
we're going to get a group of people to
all join in where on Twitch stream uh
each individual Twitch stream will map
to a singular character and there will
be the great like some sort of great
battle between four streamers to see who
really has the best chat of them all.
>> Yes. Well, we got to tell more. We got
to tell more from the beginning. So,
we've got now we've gathered like 2,000
people in this room. It's noon. Teach is
really the mastermind behind all of
this. He wrote a bunch of the code for
all of you know, we got ideas. We got
jokes. However, he was like the one
coding late into the night, waking up
early going to do there. So, obviously,
Tee is so responsible. He was there at 8
a.m. and they had tested it 20 times and
everything had worked perfectly. So,
then they get on stage in front of 2,000
people, go to start the program, and we
of course see a brand new bug. we've
never seen in the history of testing
this ever, ever, ever, ever with all
2,000 people gathered in front of us and
we don't know if it's even going to
work. So, there was like a
>> Can I tell a fun story for that one? So,
first off, right before that, I go to
[clears throat] see if I like I go and
test out if I can jump off the stage or
not. Like, how far down is it? Actually,
I could, but then the audience got or
the uh runner said I'm not allowed to do
it. Anyways, when I come back from when
or right before I go out there, I walk
into the green room, TJ's prompting. And
I'm like, "TJ, you're prompting." And
he's just like, "Yeah, I'm just doing a
little couple couple last quick things."
I'm like, "M maybe we shouldn't be
prompting right now, TJ." And he's just
like, "No, it's just a couple it's just
some styles. Nothing bad's going to
happen." Walk out. I tell people that
TJ's 11th hour prompting right now. Of
course, go out on stage. The server
Cloudflare is just responding with like,
"Sorry, Cloudflare went back down." And
it's obviously us. What did we do?
Nobody has any idea. Then TJ goes into
the microphone and goes like this. Hey,
can you quit sharing my screen? Yes.
Yes.
>> At that point, this is what he does.
Opens up the Cloudflare panel, copies,
cursor, WTF, paste, enter. That's it.
Like, that's all it was because we had
nothing left. And I kid you not, within
one moment, I saw on the screen
something flash up that just said minus
one. We pressed play, boom, it just
started working. And so, it's just like
after that, he had three agents running
all with the same stack trace. Nobody
knows what actually happened because it
was right on stage and I had to sit
there for like 3 to four minutes
just yakking it up with the audience
while teacher's like, "It's not working.
It's not working." Like the feeling of
being in front of 2,000 people and
having your software not be able to
launch was one of the most stressful
experiences of my entire lifetime. But
when TJ copied and pasted from the
CloudFlare panel, I literally thought,
"We're not doing it. We're like
literally gonna have to cancel this live
on stage. There's no universe this is
going to work out. And it worked out and
I could not even believe it.
>> No, the funniest part is it's happening.
I'm in the front row. I me and Zis,
we're manning to try and like make sure
that the prompts no one's doing racist
things or bad things and highlight funny
prompts and it's happening. It stops
working. I start sweating so fast and so
quickly. I My shirt was like soaking wet
in like a minute and I was like, "Well,
that took 30 minutes of debugging. It
finally is working. we could do a little
bit of the show. I look up, it had been
like five minutes. I was like, "Oh,
wait. We We have a whole show." It
wasn't even bad.
>> It was We were able to get back to it
pretty quickly, which was very very
nice. And we got and we got going. And
by the way, there's some really funny
prompts that people did.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> That were just absolutely
Someone even just said rigged. That's
it. Because they lost. So, their prompt
to the bot was rigged.
>> No matter what you told people to do, no
one ever followed instructions. It was
always very very uh just ridiculous
messages.
>> Well, we did set it up so like Tee put
in there that all that it knew all the
detailed smash info. It knows about wave
dashing and it knows about L cancelling
and all that. So on the last rounds
people are just putting in Prime is
reading them and he's like I don't know
what any of this means. And then that's
when Tee said you were embarrassing him
cuz it was just pure Super Smash Bros.
talk like just
an air to I was like combos.
>> I know. I was just like what does that
even mean? And then TJ's like, "Well,
I'm glad that you prepared for this
thing that we've known for months."
[laughter]
So the only thing that was appropriate
at that moment,
>> I opened up the Gamecube and took my
disc and I said, "I'm going home. I'm
tired of this crap."
>> Uh, what was the what was the AI? So the
AI bots, what were they allowed to use
as input like to this? What was it just
a video of the screen?
>> There's a library called live melee. And
this is one of the reasons why this
works so well. So, I don't know if you
know Casey, but Super Smash Brothers
Melee is the most intense video game
community ever. Like, they are one of
>> I did not know that.
>> So, when when we started playing his
event, Xanus, who's helping us, says, "I
don't I want to learn more about Super
Smash." So, I said, "Fantastic. Here's a
nice hourlong documentary to learn
about." He goes, "That was good." I go,
"Cool. Now you can start the next one."
This one's four hours, but you might
want to do this one before that, which
is only an hour. I'm not joking at all.
There is collectively I think eight
hours of high quality documentaries
about this community that they've made
because it's like so intense.
>> Oh, okay.
>> So there's like so there's like a
library that that like reads the
internal state of the game.
>> Every single thing that's happening at
all moments of the time you have access.
It's called lib melee and it's been
around for a while. When when um when
like co happened the programmers all the
Super Smash Brothers loving programmers
all like swarmed around it and wrote
amazing code. So we could you could play
a fighting game online with zero lag,
frame perfect. It's it's incredible. And
so we already had this lib melee that
tells you every single thing about the
game. And then we just hooked up into
that.
>> And it
>> I see. So So basically the LLM can can
operate directly on the internal game
state. They don't even have to like like
do vision wreck on the screen or
anything. Exactly. That's cool. So it's
so Okay, that's cool.
>> They can do frame frame perfect inputs,
which is super common in Smash. We have
them this thing called wave dashing
which is like it's technically like
abusing the inputs to like get to this
moment where you can't be hit and move
faster. We had one moment where they're
just wave dashing beyond each other like
real players and we're like they might
be too good to fight. We might have
>> Yeah. At one point Fox Captain Falcon
kept on trying to punch him and Fox
would just dodge and just wait for the
next one. Dodge, wait for the next
dodge, wait for the next one. Just kept
on doing the same thing over and over
again. Just like n I don't want to fight
you.
>> Then of course beat him. But it was it
was pretty exciting. And if I'm not
mistaken, Fox won, right?
>> Yeah, Fox ended up Yeah. Yeah. Code
Bullet Code winning. I will say early on
Jigglypuff was dominating with resting.
Jigglypuff would just float into the
middle, rest, people die. It was It was
I thought Jigglypuff was going to win it
all, but then Fox just I think Fox is
the best bot right now in the world. So,
a slight advantage. But don't worry,
Casey. We're going to force you to play,
okay? We're going to actually make you
You're going to
>> make me do what? You're going to be one
of the prompters to prompt one of these
bots. I want to see how good you are at
prompting. Remember remember you don't
have to read the codec case. You don't
have we're going to throw it away after
it's done. That's the
>> but also but you forget that the problem
here is not my inexperience with AI. My
problem here is my inexperience with
Smash Brothers. I've literally never
played the game even once. I'd be like I
don't even know until the I The first
thing I'd tell the AI is hey AI can you
tell me how to play Smash Brothers
first?
>> Great. [laughter] So So this is what
we'll do. We'll have Casey. You can have
a decent model. everyone else they can
be on chat GPT 2.5. Okay.
>> Right. Okay. Yeah. They nerfed me. I get
the I get the latest model drop and
everyone else has to use like some old
ass like you know thing thing that could
could run like chat dungeon or whatever
it is.
>> I think if we just gave you a list of
names of things you could do,
>> right?
>> You could you could play and create a
great actually a decent bot. Probably a
bot that could beat me because I also
have played the game just you know a
handful of times. Well, I guess one
question I would sort of have, and maybe
this is uh just me not understanding,
but couldn't you just ask the AI to make
a good Smash Brothers bot? Because isn't
there enough information in like the
AI's training set to understand what you
might want to do? Or is it just not not
really? Like you'd have to have an agent
swarm and you'd have to feed it
documentation about Smath Brothers and
give it a ton of time to iterate on that
is like like what's why can't you just
say make a good bot? like what what why
do you have to be specific other than to
be other than to make it fun? I mean
>> so we weren't letting the bots talk to
the internet, right? They're not able to
do tool calls out to the internet.
Number one,
>> so they can't read a strategy guide and
refresh their we give them the basic
information because the reality is
someone could have found the open source
best bot ever and been like copy this
bot.
>> Yeah, clone clone this repository and
run it.
>> Yes. [laughter] Yes. Yes. That was out
there.
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. I see.
So they were kind of nerfed from from
actually being able to iterate on on
open information that you know so so
obviously their training set doesn't in
probably include complete verbatim
copies of all the things they would
need. Uh
>> yes it might contain it but it's really
hard to coax it out of it
>> out of it. Yeah.
>> And so it's just like even though it's
in there the LLM just have all of it.
Yeah. It's in there somewhere.
>> We also limit every person to 140
characters like OG Twitter. So their
actual prompt is 140. said make best bot
ever. But
>> so okay, it'd be pretty abbreviated. You
couldn't be like go find this thing,
download the but yeah well I guess you
can't download anything but yeah. Okay.
>> The idea would have been to just simply
do like your job is to say when hanging
off the edge press up
>> but the idea was like give it really
simple direct
>> responses. Was the idea that in general
you you are going to like you will grab
all of these and you'll put all of them
into one prompt. So, it's not like
you're not overwriting the last person's
instructions. You're you're just like
it's a giant [ __ ] mush and if if two
people gave conflicting instructions
like you said before that it's just like
the AI is going to have to just it'll do
what it's going to do and off you go.
Okay.
>> Yep.
>> How long did it take to like process a
prompt? Was it pretty quick?
>> Uh it was not too long. Probably uh Oh,
people did do the then kiss. Uh let's
see. Uh probably
>> there several ones with the word kiss
>> was mostly the focus of some of the
crowd was [laughter]
The crowd really just wanted to see
Donkey Kong and Jigglypuff Kiss. Um,
very weird. But yes, uh, we just mushed
them all together and it take about 45
seconds to summarize and about a minute
and a half to write the code
>> like tops. So it was pretty quick. We
used Gro 45 fast.
>> It's just really fast.
>> And so it's done and they start
fighting. Do you guys watch them just
fight for what, like a minute or do they
actually
>> Yeah, we had a one minute round. Often
it would not go to that long. Fun fact,
the final round
with Fox had two wins and we needed one
more win for whoever is going to be like
the winner. And it got to the point
where Captain Falcon or Captain Falcon's
hanging on the edge and when he would
fall, he would somehow get back on. He'd
like get up, go back off the edge and
just like his strategy was to just make
somebody else fall off and die.
>> Fox kept jumping down, doing his like
little like fiery upbeat smash back up
on and doing this over and over again.
And then Captain Falcon had all timed
out just right where he like fell onto a
cloud. It confused his programming. He
then just walked off the edge and died
and Fox won like by pure accident. It
went on for like 45 seconds of them just
doing this little dance.
>> Yeah. Messed up and fell off.
>> We were like, "Oh my god, it's going to
be a tie again. Please don't be a tie."
We're like, "We're" and Ter's like, "We
are waiting. Okay, we're going to see
something new will happen." And
something new happened. five seconds
remaining because
>> we were over our allotted time to be at
the audience at that point. We had to
get off stage,
>> but we wanted a winner. We couldn't just
like end on a tie, right?
>> So, we're just like, "Okay, we got to
get someone has to win." And so, it
turned out Code Bullet won. Code Bullet
who he told his audience after winning
the previous one said, "Okay, nobody
make a single prompt where no one do it.
Not a single one." 65 prompts came in.
Apparently, 65 people had different
opinions about what should or should not
be done at that point. Well, that was
the other thing we didn't talk about at
the very beginning. We flashed four QR
codes, scan the QR codes, get on the
site. Okay, well, you know, let's get
2,000 people on mobile networks at the
same time and see what loads. It was not
loading. And then T's program wasn't
working and people weren't able to load
the site and it was like, oh yeah, I
forgot 2,000 people can't get on the
same website on their phones at the same
time. Uh, luckily it did work out, but
this is crazy. We never even thought of
this. people in the back. The QR codes
weren't big enough for them to scan
because it's 2,000 people and it goes so
back and we were like, it's the biggest
QR code in the world. How could you not
scan it? It's like huge [snorts] room.
So,
>> we're definitely going to Yeah, next
time we're going to go even bigger QR
codes. I don't know. We're going to
bring
>> If you've never been like in an
audience, mobile networks just don't
work, right? Like when you get too many
people together.
>> That's a problem. Yeah, that's a
problem. And so it just we just never
once thought, oh shoot, they're in a
there's there's just a lot of people in
a very small area.
>> Dang, that doesn't work. And so that was
a big learning experience right there
for us.
>> Yeah. The antithesis of a better
software cough. Exactly. Like literally
T is going on stage. Tee literally said
this. I maybe five minutes before going
on maybe we should use 56 soul. He said
that and I go teach we're about to go on
stage. We tested for [laughter] a way.
We're not going to do new test. Like I
I'm
>> I'm glad it worked out. Geez.
>> T loves changing things up until the
last moment.
>> I'm more of a let's not change it like 3
days before and test it 500 times. TJ's
like, I got one more idea. I got Dude, I
got one more in me. I got 10,000 lines
more in me. Let's get this done.
>> You know,
>> I could imagine what you were feeling
being up there not knowing that was
going to work.
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The video features a recap of the 'Open Sauce' conference, focusing on a chaotic yet highly successful live event where the speakers used an LLM to allow an audience of over 2,000 people to collectively control bots in a game of Super Smash Bros. Melee. The speakers share behind-the-scenes stories, including the technical challenges of running code live on stage, the unpredictability of audience input, and the humorous 'hacks' used to fix bugs in front of a live crowd.
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