Remaking the Final Fantasy XI client. The idea is to have a ~0.9:1 faithful reimplementation of the retail client without a lot of the performance jank and cruft that the original has, and then layer optional improvements, QoL, graphical improvements, UI/UX improvements etc., on top with a plugin system and hackable source code for players across various private servers.
This approach allows people that just want to replace their familiar client with something slightly more modern/performant/cross-platform, all the way to entirely new experiences.
There's at least one other project, not yet open-sourced, which is going more in the direction of adding all of the enhancements by default.
If your harness has an “AskUserQuestion”-like tool, you can prompt it to use that, or, as I have done, add a stop hook that uses a smaller model to check if there was any similar prose that was output toward the end of the previous response.
Happy to share the implementation or package it up if anyone is interested.
I got fired back in June for protesting against trying to “design everything up front” (by adding more slop plan docs alongside the hundred of others that my tiny team was charged with producing per month) and instead opting to explore the problem space through code/experimentation. In actuality, I just asked to be remote again. I was burnt out and they were looking for an excuse to fire me.
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