This is a great example of the kind of 'good enough' software that LLMs enable. Before LLMs existed you'd either hire someone to do this an exorbitant cost or you'd pick up a second full time job learning the nessessary skills.

This software doesn't need to be massive scaled, hyperperformant, and absolutely bug free. It just needs to do its job well enough, which it does.

I am also a (non-software) engineer and although I can write software (poorly) I have also used these tools to do some things that previously just wouldn't have gotten done.

We still need people to do Serious Software but for millions of little applications like this LLMs are a game changer.

How awesome that you were able to find this! I’m only missing a couple! The SRU is my final hurrah that I’m trying to get the play dynamic right. Balancing air demand with sulfur load without overwhelming the screen with bars and widgets.

I’ll take the compliment! My goal was to keep each unit to simple tap and drag play dynamics. If there’s another curiosity, mechanical, electrical, another unit, I can add it to the development plans. It’s fun for our family!

Thank you, almost like you read my manifest for this haha. I was concerned the learning would get overshadowed by the LLM use. Hope you learned some interesting facts that help you understand the why of refining a little bit more. I started developing this before the conversation around oil became mainstream media again.

Ah interesting, I have playtested on safari, chrome, and edge. I’ll have to look into what’s unique there. Thank you!

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            animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
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Haha man maybe I’ll add a track to keep going until you arrive at the website hosting the Great Refinery Run. Energy-ception

Interesting! I could add a “just the facts” button in the bottom section that lets you go through all the fun fact slides I built?

Also, thank you for the compliment! I would love to partner with folks to build more professions and host them under Fueling Curiosity.

Thank you! They call themselves my play testers and ask to see if I have added anything new almost daily for the last week or so. I have a bonus level for the SRU I’m trying to perfect.

If you hard reset, it will erase your save file cookie and forget your progress. Another option, if you push through to the end and deliver your first product, you unlock the refinery map feature and can jump back to the extraction step!

Fair, I can think through adding risk points where poor stewardship can exasperate these concerns. Thank you for your feedback.

I hope you found the procedure! Sometimes learning by failure and that your intuition doesn’t always win is the best lesson! Thanks for playing!

Fair point, I have a rebound energy and terminal velocity set, still lower the top speed! Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks! I would love to hear your biggest takeaway or follow up curiosity.

Hello! Thank you for the vote of confidence! I deliberately left the client-side JavaScript un-obfuscated (AI showed me how to do it, but then I undid it for posting here). A colleague of mine started talking about selling it as a training tool, but ha I don’t know if that is in the cards. If you send me an email, we can talk about helping you get a head start!

Thank you! Share with your colleagues! It’s important folks understand how oil and gas works with so much unrest.

Great! Anything uniquely unexpected?

Thank you for playing, would love to hear the most interesting fact or minigame you enjoyed the most!

Love it! Hopefully you learned something too!