author here: yes this is exactly my intent, but i would have given some more signposting and context if i knew this was going to hit a larger audience :)
Few people understand this way of thinking, and even fewer are actually able to practice it.
I always thought that games and the people who made them were the real leaders of the mentality. I myself have been more or less hooked on competitive games since I first started playing them -- Counter Strike, TF2, Dota, Rocket League. I loved that what you built by playing these games was not digital wealth but physical skill, and I love/d that it was the players themselves who were always driving the other players to get better and better, which in turn often forced the game itself to adapt, which then kept things interesting and kept a community alive (and made it worth gaining skills)! My dream is to be able to create a piece of software that is imbued with this spark of life.
hello yes this blog post is specifically aimed at other people in the pastagang collective. i'm a bit surprised to see it shared (and upvoted!) here. but i'm thankful nonetheless!
for more info on pastagang go to www.pastagang.cc
or watch a talk i gave about it here
youtube.com/watch?v=60SywbNuZA8
Do you somewhere have slides/recordings from the awesome AI tinkerers talk you did? Because that's what I had in mind when I made this comment and will be way easier than me trying to describe it
some of the concepts of this blog post are covered in this podcast episode too, such as "building close to the floor" https://www.pastagang.cc/podcast/runrecord.mp3