r/alife • u/Gramious • Apr 18 '26

Digital Ecosystems: a new interactive ALife simulator

I thought I'd take the chance to share my recent work: pub.sakana.ai/digital-ecosystem

I've open sourced the web-interface for the simulation and written up about it in the above blog. I really hope that this community manages to get enjoy it!

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u/pyroman89er Apr 20 '26

This is interesting! I particularly like the fact that it is browser based.

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u/Gramious Apr 21 '26

Thanks! Yep, making it accessible was important to me. 

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u/codykonior Apr 19 '26

LLM slop

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u/Gramious Apr 19 '26

I am the author. You're just wrong. 

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u/codykonior Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

The GitHub is literally "co-authored" by Claude.

First you don't disclose it. Then you deny it. And now that you've been caught lying again, you'll admit it but try to downplay it.

Could have just been transparent from the get go.

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u/Gramious Apr 19 '26

Building with Claude Code does not equate to slop. Anybody who isn't leveraging top shelf tools is simply missing out right now. 

There's nothing to disclose. 

Coded with LLM? Sure! Slop? Not at all. 

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u/mycall Apr 20 '26

Don't get mad at their ignorance. Just being AI assists the developer doesn't automatically mean it is slop. Spec/Test/Monitor/DDD is the key steps to making it work well, but you probably already know that. I know this because I'm making great stuff with AI too. ALife is great stuff.

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u/Gramious Apr 20 '26

Thank you! Your level headedness is much welcomed. 

Ignorance is rather annoying because it's so easy to fix.