<![CDATA[Learn Technical Independence]]>https://learn.piescale.com/https://learn.piescale.com/favicon.pngLearn Technical Independencehttps://learn.piescale.com/Ghost 4.48Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:57:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Scorched Earth by GLM and Qwen]]>GLM 5.2 Max vs Qwen 3.8 Max.
Prompt 1:
Make a single HTML file video game like the original turn-based artillery game Scorched Earth.  Try to make it look like the original MS-DOS version from 1991, and make sure to have both a player vs player mode,

]]>https://learn.piescale.com/scorched-earth-by-glm-and-qwen/6ac59833445f5f00017660a3Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:02:21 GMTGLM 5.2 Max vs Qwen 3.8 Max.
Prompt 1:
Make a single HTML file video game like the original turn-based artillery game Scorched Earth.  Try to make it look like the original MS-DOS version from 1991, and make sure to have both a player vs player mode, and a player vs computer mode.

Result:
GLM won round 1.  Qwen graphics were out of focus, and the animation felt a little more modern, which here is not good.  GLM much was more clear, and period correct.  Qwen also goes to the shop screen after every exchange which is unwanted.

Within arena.ai's web display, GLM was selected as the winner, and from there the harness feeds that as the correct base to build from to both models for subsequent prompts.

Prompt 2:

This is really good, but can you change four things:

  1. Make it so in Play vs Computer, the computer buys its own weapons.
  2. Make the computer player a little less accurate in easy mode.  Seems to be hitting at almost 100%, dial it down to about 50.
  3. Make the differences between the different sized weapons a little larger.
  4. In the scorched earth shop screen, there is flashing white text at the bottom that I cannot read because it is a few pixels below the bottom cutoff.  Can you fix only that.  The rest of the game, and menus display perfectly.

Result:

Almost identical, but the GLM version feels a little more balanced, and fonts look a little clearer.  Tie goes to GLM for continuity, and cohesion as the base author.

Prompt 3:

This is almost perfect in a desktop browser, but it needs a full screen option.  It also needs to work in a mobile browser.  You should be able to start the game by tapping, or clicking a start button.  The game controls should appear as icons you can tap when in a mobile browser.

Result:

GLM wins with a bigger screen, and clearer controls.

Prompt 4:

Very good.  The desktop view is now perfect.  The only change I request is to slow down the angle, and power adjustment by about 2x.  Right now even very small taps move the number by more than one, so dialing in an exact number is difficult.
In mobile only, make the shop text twice as large, and add scrolling to fit all weapons.  Also in mobile only make the angle, and power display twice as large.

GLM wins, store menue better, but new display box did block the main game.  Qwen just made existing field bigger, which is exactly what was asked for, but probably not as good.  But if I had to pick a V4 to play vs a V4 to turn into V5, Qwen would win here.

Prompt 5:

Desktop version is now perfect.
Mobile version is almost perfect.
In the mobile version only, move the new ANG and PWR display box to the left outside the main playing screen like the rest of the mobile only controls are.  It currently blocks the main playing display, and that's sometimes a big problem.

GLM perfect.  Qwen vertically expanded the mobile control display grid, and shrank the main playing field.

Prompt 6:

Almost there.
Desktop is still perfect.
Mobile shrank the main playing canvas, which should never happen.  In mobile only, move the ANG and PWR numbers to the top left next to the FULL SCREEN button, and don't use anymore vertical pixels than are currently used by those above canvas buttons.  And move the POWER METER to the left of the canvas displayed vertically, making certain not to shrink the playing canvas.

GLM numbers more clear, power meter tighter to canvas, should maximize canvas on any mobile screen.

SCORCHED EARTH - DOS Artillery Tribute
F1 HELP  ·  F9 SCANLINES  ·  ←→ ANGLE  ·  ↑↓ POWER  ·  Q/W WEAPON  ·  , . DRIVE  ·  SPACE FIRE  ·  MOUSE-DRAG TO AIM
]]><![CDATA[GML 5.2 and Qwen 3.8 Max Failure Points]]>How far will a paired team of GLM 5.2 and Qwen 3.8 Max go?

I wanted the car to look like it was turning, just a subtle 3D effect of showing a side fender, and a front tire like Rad Racer did.  Neither could do it, Qwen

]]>https://learn.piescale.com/ai-failure/6ab982a0445f5f000176603dSun, 27 Sep 2026 21:21:16 GMTHow far will a paired team of GLM 5.2 and Qwen 3.8 Max go?

I wanted the car to look like it was turning, just a subtle 3D effect of showing a side fender, and a front tire like Rad Racer did.  Neither could do it, Qwen was closer, but both lost the rear tires, and the sides looked wrong to the point of breaking the basic box geometry of the main car.

Small details of world model understanding that a human could do in assembly language on the original 8 bit Nintendo, but the two smartest AI's on the planet in 2026 can't crack the code.

But they could add an overhead map, a turbo boost that feels like an addition more than a distraction, new obstacle vehicles, and a level 7 that's interestingly different.

Qwen 3.6 35b was unable to add a level 7 to a working 6 level game.

RAD HORIZON — Turbo Grand Prix
Turbo Grand Prix · 7 Stages · Est. 1986
HI-SCORE 0000000
CREDITS 0
◀
▶
BRAKE
NITRO
INSERT COIN
PRESS ENTER TO RACE
◀▶ STEER ▲ THROTTLE ▼ BRAKE SHIFT NITRO 1234 RADIO M MUTE G 3-D P PAUSE
A love letter to OUT RUN (Sega · 1986) and RAD RACER (Square · 1987) — every pixel drawn in code, every note synthesized live. Thread the needle between traffic to charge NITRO, hit every checkpoint, and pop on the red-cyan glasses for the full 1987 treatment.
Stage 6 is the NEON TUNNEL: four blacked-out bores where the light rings strobe in time with the radio and the music muffles the moment you're inside — and where the corners flatten out so you can hold it flat through the dark.
Stage 7 is THUNDER ROAD — a night storm on the coast. Rain streaks that lay back as you accelerate, lightning that forks down and flares the whole landscape, thunder that rolls in behind it, and asphalt so wet that every tail light, lamp and neon sign mirrors itself down the road. Two tunnels cut through the storm: dive in for shelter, then burst back out into the rain.
Score like a pro: tuck in behind traffic to slipstream, then swing out — every clean pass feeds a CHAIN multiplier up to x9, crashes wipe it. Grab the hovering TURBO pads for a kick and extra nitro, and hold the throttle on GO for a LAUNCH BOOST. Beat 60,000 and the cabinet asks for your initials.

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]]><![CDATA[Best Rad Racer/Out Run Yet]]>A Mix of Qwen 3.8 max, and GLM 5.2 max just made by far the best 16 bit era quality racer game in a single .html file.  These are the big 2.4 trillion, and 753 billion parameter Chinese models running on arena.ai hardware.  Arena

]]>https://learn.piescale.com/best-rad-racer-out-run/6aa4fb748ea9b20001c1636dSat, 12 Sep 2026 07:48:18 GMT

A Mix of Qwen 3.8 max, and GLM 5.2 max just made by far the best 16 bit era quality racer game in a single .html file.  These are the big 2.4 trillion, and 753 billion parameter Chinese models running on arena.ai hardware.  Arena ranks models against each other, and appears to be the best way to get free tokens with a big context window, although they may flag game development, and I somehow got lucky with this.  My general sense is providers don't want to fund free game development, and it's easy to burn tokens here, although hard to tell exactly how much.  My guess would be the final product here was around a million tokens, which prices out to around $6 at current prices.

RAD HORIZON — Turbo Grand Prix
Turbo Grand Prix · 6 Stages · Est. 1986
HI-SCORE 0000000
CREDITS 0
◀
▶
BRAKE
NITRO
INSERT COIN
PRESS ENTER TO RACE
◀▶ STEER ▲ THROTTLE ▼ BRAKE SHIFT NITRO 1234 RADIO M MUTE G 3-D P PAUSE
A love letter to OUT RUN (Sega · 1986) and RAD RACER (Square · 1987) — every pixel drawn in code, every note synthesized live. Thread the needle between traffic to charge NITRO, hit every checkpoint, and pop on the red-cyan glasses for the full 1987 treatment.
Six stages end in the NEON TUNNEL: four blacked-out bores where the light rings strobe in time with the radio and the music muffles the moment you're inside — and where the corners flatten out so you can hold it flat through the dark.

If I am to be meticulously critical, besides the obvious sound track, and missing win animations, the biggest difference between this, and the originals is the physics engine, and turning/drifting effects.  Both games somehow created an experience that made you lean in your seat, anticipating real G forces.  And those programmers were doing it in assembly language.

Click the box below to download a single HTML file that will open and play in your browser, full screen, without internet, better than embedded in this blog here.  You can also open with a text editor, and start changing things:

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V2 with overhead map, turbo boosts, more obstacle vehicles, and a rainy level 7.
Play on different page here:  https://learn.piescale.com/ai-failure/


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]]><![CDATA[AI Slop]]>Will you eat what they feed you?

By April 2025, it is becoming clear there are going to be two AI tracks:

  1. Slop brought to you by Microsoft, and Google
  2. Something zeroing in on pure intelligence, currently lead by Twitter, DeepSeek, and Alibaba

Intelligence is inherently efficient.  It is

]]>https://learn.piescale.com/ai-slop/67ebfb1a2f08c600019dc9abTue, 01 Apr 2025 14:52:05 GMT

Will you eat what they feed you?

By April 2025, it is becoming clear there are going to be two AI tracks:

  1. Slop brought to you by Microsoft, and Google
  2. Something zeroing in on pure intelligence, currently lead by Twitter, DeepSeek, and Alibaba

Intelligence is inherently efficient.  It is going to run on hardware that is currently being turned into e-waste.  It is not going to require buildings full of the newest silicon, dedicated power plants, and trillions of dollars.

The slop pumpers are chained to a religion of maximizing entropy.

Pure intelligence is going to be way more zen.

]]><![CDATA[Quit Microsoft]]>It's easier than you think, and the productivity gains alone are worth it.

Linux Mint is now easier to use than Windows, it's also faster, more secure, and more stable.  OnlyOffice is better than Microsoft Office, and it's free.  You can install

]]>https://learn.piescale.com/quit-microsoft/66ee9beb5e569e000122d9fbSat, 21 Sep 2024 10:47:06 GMT

It's easier than you think, and the productivity gains alone are worth it.

Linux Mint is now easier to use than Windows, it's also faster, more secure, and more stable.  OnlyOffice is better than Microsoft Office, and it's free.  You can install it on your computer, and use it without internet, or you can install it on a server, and run your own cloud collaboration better than Microsoft 365.

And you can use this forever without ever paying anyone anything, or being forced to change.

Microsoft uses security theater to cost you money, and harm our environment by sending computers to an early grave.  They are in the business of turning money into new software that has to run on new hardware, and center every business decision around accelerating this.

But normal people want stability.  The only way to achieve stability is to quit the chaos agents at Microsoft.

]]><![CDATA[Do you long for boring tech]]>Whatever happened to stability?  Have you ever met a normal person who wanted their software to change after they learned how to use it?  How has it become so commonplace, especially among open source projects?

]]>https://learn.piescale.com/do-you-long-for-boring-tech/66ee27b25e569e000122d9afSat, 21 Sep 2024 01:58:52 GMT

Whatever happened to stability?  Have you ever met a normal person who wanted their software to change after they learned how to use it?  How has it become so commonplace, especially among open source projects?

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