Every day it becomes clear that most of the public doesn't understand anything about project management and scheduling - and not even the game-specific parts.
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Every day it becomes clear that most of the public doesn't understand anything about project management and scheduling - and not even the game-specific parts.
It's crazy how people take "valve takes as long as they want on a project" (however true it is or isn't) to mean "deadlines don't exist and can always be pushed back regardless of internal and external obligations". And obviously if deadlines don't mean anything (lol) then crunch never happens!
Fuck no. Morality aside, AI does not solve any problems that actually take up my time - writing boilerplate is not enough of my time to matter and for anything more complex I'd have to read and maintain myself, which means AI isn't actually saving me any time.
This is what gets me - no, AI is probably not going to replace your position. Shitty investments (and the bubble popping) might mean your employer gets rid of your position, though.
It's all the horrible cascading effects of this reckless bubble that scares me, not so much AI itself.
we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell
LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizes
Newsweek: Elon Musk's Grok Apologizes
International Business Times: Grok Issues Apologies
The Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
7/ Of course, AI making workers redundant would be an ultimate goal, but we are so incredibly far away from that reality right now. And claiming we're close to it only advances the agenda of AI proponents - "See! Everyone is against it because of how good it is, so you should totally invest!"
6/ (which isn't any better, to be clear, but the blame should be solidly on corporate greed and leadership, not some nebulous claims of AI making workers redundant)
5/ The one way AI is affecting jobs is that it has changed where investment is. For example, Microsoft shifting money from other divisions to AI certainly results in layoffs, but it's not because AI is replacing anyone - it's for the much more boring/greedy reason of shifting corporate priorities.
4/ wasn't going to hire someone just for that. To be clear, I also have problems with that scenario, but my point is AI replacing workers is largely a future to fight against. Acting like it's the here and now just helps inflate the bubble.
3/ Right now, at best, LLMs are a productivity tool. There is no job they are replacing unless you had someone in your office who was the designated google searcher. Artists maybe have more to worry about in the here and now, but a CEO or art director generating a bunch of concept images probably
2/ We need an alternate version of hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to AI that which is adequately explained by corporate greed."
It's hard to watch people who want to fight back against all of the moral and environmental issues of LLMs fall into this trap.
1/ An annoyance for me right now: if you're against the current and future state of AI, stop giving credibility to companies claiming they're laying off thousands of people because AI will replace them. Because no, they didn't - they laid people off for normal greed or stupidity related reasons.
God damn, the protomen are not missing with act 3. Light's Last Stand (and the rest of the album) is incredible.
Wrote a long technical dive into some internals of Unreal's world partition because I've had to go quite deep into this stuff in the last couple of years. Basically none of the internals are documented, so maybe this will be helpful to someone.
xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...
Seriously, kudos to everyone who worked on it.
Ok that's not all, I want to know what they've done to get the game to looks so incredible. It looks like a lot of what Guilty Gear does for 2d-style 3d but for a game that is 80-90% cutscenes and going after less anime and more superhero tv show. And almost all of it looks *perfect*.
Dispatch is great. That is all.
Working my way through @edzitron.com 's article about the AI bubble. It's fantastic. I do kinda know all this stuff peripherally, but to see it all laid out very clearly with hard numbers is incredibly useful. Thanks Ed!
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
I'll die on the hill that Pyre has the best soundtrack (followed by Transistor). More varied stylistically than the other soundtracks, and the insanity that is 9 different versions of "Never to Return" covering every team's theme music.
Totally get why the game isn't for everyone though.
So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol.
Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
saw someone refer to "itch's social-media team" and i guess people are still not grasping the size of organization here
i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?
Hands off Social Security.
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
let's cut the crap and understand america for what it is. every american voter is a 42-year-old left-handed guy named jon who accidentally locks himself either out of his apartment or inside an emergency stairwell every three years and whose knee still kind of hurts from a 2012 wiffle ball injury
Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
