third party tools and asset store things have always been a bit of a crapshoot. Properly vetting often took longer than just knocking up something quickly yourself. A few well made exceptions exist of course. but nowadays, I am pretty much giving up on asset stores entirely. Simply too much slop.

fyi to everyone who values their friend groups, start looking into backup platforms discord is not gonna get better, and when it all falls apart, its going to be very hard to get back any contacts you didnt prepare alternative contact means with be proactive.

Don't use AI in your writing. Just don't. 🤖🫧💥 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

tired: "multitasking makes me 10x more productive!" - an engineer who has never measured their productivity wired: "agentic vibe coding makes me 10x more productive!" - an engineer who has never measured their productivity

'friendslop' as a term makes no sense to me. (I get that it is a play on the word friendship, but it really doesn't hit) 'slop' implies LLM chatbot garbage generators, which are a pale soulless shadow of humanity, but playing games with your actual friends (or even strangers) is the exact opposite

"AI cannot take responsibility, and we can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it." @godotengine.org gets it. 👍

For any other NSW transport dorks - or just anyone who would like to be able to walk to the shops/pub/school/whatever without fear of being hit by a car - the Walkable NSW discussion paper community submissions close tomorrow: www.haveyoursay.nsw.gov.au/walkable-nsw

Git (by xkcd)

Corporations are facing major "buyers' remorse" after replacing experienced workers w/AI. Surveys reveal 55% of employers who restructured their workforce for AI regret the decision due to drops in quality/lost institutional knowledge/declining customer satisfaction. www.forbes.com/councils/for...

this is such a good thread, Nicholas explains it so clearly with some excellent visual examples if you care about art, either making it or just enjoying it, give this a read

I cannot think of a single game I have ever played that would have been made better by being 'connected to other game economies'. (and I am old and have played SO many games)

Disappointed, but not surprised, Sega is requiring consent to AI model training in the terms of services to join on the hunt. Always read the terms you agree to friends.

Norway is banning generative AI for schoolchildren under 13 starting in September.

'cognitive surrender' is a great band name

Another great read. Does a great job explaining their methodology and how they derived their conclusions and what, if anything to take away from them.

A must read

Palworld figured it out? (yeah, they did an AI art game thing that is still out, which sucks, but they kinda learned from it? and are not doing it on the next one? I hate that they are making me kinda support them)

Truly inspiring to see large corporations like Unity and Epic openly learn from each other and create true interoperability, in that both engines now equally and seamlessly support "moving to Godot". www.unrealengine.com/news/the-roa...

sweet shambling zombie Gandalf.... if your tech needs missionaries, then your tech is not good.

A reminder with #SteamNextFest starting: You SHOULD install the extensions that pop up the AI Disclosure in Steam and ignore any game with it.

ffs

It's crazy to me how software engineers have been so aggressively brainwashed to believe that AI is useful. All the stuff that Big tech CEOs are saying are basically lies. I've had to use it at work, and it's getting dumber every day. It has no thinking ability

Green is a national treasure, as always Turns out the media is being dishonest about One Nation Legit Q: how do we fix the Aus media? One Nation as majority party is laughable, but so was Trump winning in 2016. The right wing media is the main contributing factor for this trend towards stupid.

sigh. like seriously.. ffs.

I can't even. Musk is the dumbest human on the planet.

what else could have been happening circa 2007 that might cause people to have fewer kids? Maybe the global financial crisis? the article and the paper it is talking about are both absolute shite, but people not having kids cuz they are broke makes infinitely more sense than the fukkin iPhone ffs

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...

ZpacepillZ - out now on Lexaloffle BBS and Splore Go play. Have yourself some fun. Get on the pillz and smile. #pico8 #gamdev www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=157...

imagine being the world's first trillionaire and still not having any friends.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

one of the many MANY things that sucks shit in the current geopolitical capitalist flaming garbage tornado we are all stuck in is that somehow billionaires and right wing fuckwits have managed to make space flight and space exploration super shit. see: the spacex iso/scam/rugpull and artemis III

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

This looks rad! (also I know these devs, and they are also rad, so I know this will be rad) youtu.be/v8b2Jd-2y54?...

was literally just talking about how crazy taxi was a great game like two days ago. Saw this: thought: hell yeah! Saw the AI disclosure: ah. well. I guess not then. The original still exists and is still good, I will find a way to play that instead.

Oooh, a new Crazy Taxi. What's that on the Steam Page? And AI disclosure? FUCK THAT! #StopTheSlop

"increased share availability" this just means that the big investors who have actually read the disclosure docs are like: haha! fuck no. They need the retail investors to hold the bag. (including the index funds that would pick up the stock automatically)

Is the SpaceX IPO a scam?

I don't know how to explain to otherwise smart people that guardrails are just more prompts and prompts are just context and context can (and is often) just ignored. Do not give an LLM access to your systems. FFS.

hard pass.

Um, holy shit?

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IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Is there a Glaze or Nightshade for code repos? Can I drop promo injections into my code so that it fucks the training models when they are eventually scraped without my permission?

Hey, so I wanted to talk about the Forza blog I published last week. While we had a quick discussion about it prior to publishing, the decision to run that piece ultimately lay with me and wasn’t the right one, and I’m sorry.

for a piece I’m working on: destiny 2 devs of all eras, what’s your favorite thing you contributed to the game and why? can be big or small, still in the game or not. DMs are open and my email is [email protected]

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I wish that users of LLMs had even an inkling of how it worked. And in this case I wish they understood that the LLM is just as likely to make up random bullshit or miss important parts of the inputs as it is to give you a useable summary.