Because they cannot be profitable. Job market is not the same on both ends. If you are east European and you try to get a job in an international corporation, the in all cases offer salaries adjusted for regional averages, unless you are willing to reallocate. Only few startups and FAANG like companies, often compensation in line what is received in the western world.
And there is also a thrill of doing it, which other guys already mentioned.
Unless there is a way to see or check the whole prompt that made this game, it is hard for me personally to say if this is impressive or not as I don't know what percentage of this was vibe coded. I also see there is an incentive to skew the truth here, as there is a substantial prize pool and that usually makes people become very creative.
In the past, I was trying to reproduce vibe coding results when I managed to get all the information from Youtube videos (model version, ide version, same input data and prompt) and never was I able to reproduce something impressive even after multiple runs of the same thing.
Thanks for that. I skimmed through provided links, only thing I can conclude was, it was a process of do something and let's hope for the best. I also see references to files not linked to Github, so I don't know what is contained inside of it: "Here’s what was added to the paintball_replaces_barrel_roll_19e450df.plan.md"
You nailed it, I came to the same conclusion recently. When people show me what have they done with LLM, I am left unimpressed as mostly they show things that can be done manually in a very short time. I also failed to observe the rise in availability of impressive software, which coincides with the fact that LLMs are currently being used to solve simple problems, instead of important ones.
Calculations from me and others have proven that cloud providers use 5-10x multipliers when selling you things. The less you use them, the better is your bottom line. At the beginning it maybe makes sense to use cloud credits to get you moving, but when credits expire or your organization grows, it is wise to invest in people that can setup things on their own. The biggest lie that cloud providers managed to sell to the world, that you don't need knowledgeable people to run things in cloud.
I had a similar thinking that this should be one of the most important USP for LLMs in coding. Does anyone here has more insights or experience in using LLM to cut through years of abstractions and just rewrite code in asm or any other low-level language?
As the old saying goes (I made this up), if it was worth that much, it wouldn't be released to the public. There is absolutely zero chance that something "dangerous" would be available for 20 USD / month to basically anyone in the world. To this day, I am still puzzled when some professionals don't apply the basic logic to certain bombastic events.
I don't know how much servers are they using or server specs besides ancient Opterons, but how is this even an issue in 2025?
On Hetnzer (not affiliated), at this moment, i7-8700 (AVX2 supported) with 128 GB RAM, 2x1 TB SSD and 1 Gbit uplink costs 42.48 eur per month, VAT included, in their server auction section.
What are we missing here, besides that build farm was left to decay?
Either they want to run on ideologically pure hardware too, without pesky management bits in it (or even indeed UEFI), or they are just "it used to work perfectly" guys.
In the former case, I fail to see how ME or its absence is relevant to building Android apps, which they do using Google-provided binaries that have even more opportunity to inject naughty bits into the software. In the latter case, I better forget they exist.
Well if you wanted to compromise F-Droid you could target their build server's ME or a cloud vm's hypervisor.
To do a supply-chain attack on Google's SDK would be much more expensive and less likely to succeed. Google isn't going to be the attacker.
The recent attack on AMI/Gigabyte's ME shows how a zero-day can bootkit a UEFI server quite easily.
There are newer Coreboot boards than Opteron, though. Some embedded-oriented BIOS'es let you fuse out the ME. You are warned this is permanent and irreversible.
F-Droid likely has upgrade options even in the all-open scenario.
I didn't look at this video, but be vigilant when seeing one, as I was also surprised by someone demonstrating what they can do with Cursor and I went so far to install the exactly the same version of the app, use the same model and everything (prompt, word capitalization...) I could gather from the video and the results were nowhere near what was demonstrated in the video (recreating mobile web page from screenshot).
I know that LLMs are not deterministic machines, but IMO there is a lot of incentive to be "creative" with marketing of this stuff.
For the reference, this was less than two months ago.
And there is also a thrill of doing it, which other guys already mentioned.
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