use it all the time, in demonstratable ways, or you're fired. but don't use it too much and make us waste more money, or you're fired. and guess what happens if you spend too much time trying to manage your usage instead of fixing bugs or shipping features? you guessed it

My LinkedIn is full of posts by former Microsoft colleagues who accepted the voluntary retirement offer. I counted at least 9 posts from people I worked with in the past. For some reason, it felt even sadder than layoff posts. It was hard to put into words until this post from a now ex-Microsoftie.

Really tangential but this common pattern of "I use AI, therefore the efficiency gains are real" needs to be challenged in every point. It's easy for a person to judge their AI use as increasing their efficiency. But the studies aren't so clear cut. bsky.app/profile/carn...

I work with people new to gamedev, the more someone used AI before the higher risk they -cut corners -don't take time to learn skills -won't ask for help -underestimate what other people know -negative value to team, slowdown -can't evaluate info quality -weak follow through hard to undo AIs damage

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

I was going to participate in this Jam but then I realized work has me super tired. itch.io/jam/thinky-p...

AI companies are already planning ahead. "critical infrastructure" is the new "too big to fail" . Once the AI bubble pops, everyday people from the US and whatever big power the US drags with it are going to pay the bill. www.youtube.com/shorts/A6u38...

With the addition of AI-generated code, GE-proton has become a hostile fork, since WINE upstream does not accept AI-generated code (might have something to do with the fact it uses the LGPL license) github.com/GloriousEggr...

Problem is, there's no such thing as internet "age verification." What we call "age verification" is actually *mass surveillance*, so invasive and pervasive it makes the ad-tech industry's surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia: pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/b... 5/

This isn't a joke, it's not hyperbole, this is what they actually said - and GN mentioned the same is happening to companies like G. Skill who have been selling RAM to consumers for *decades*

When a game's a hit, publishers often mistake the IP as the success rather than the team. So they invest in a franchise instead of people. "You're probably gonna lose all that core team and nucleus that it took [...] five years of them working together to finally complete each other's sentences"

There's a lot of talk about LLMs being used to find security flaws and that's indeed a thing. And the flaws are no joke. But the rhetoric is being inflated to strengthen AI hype.

Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...

There are a few people in games that are so singularly stable that any change to that will send ripple of concern or consequence through the industry, and very rarely will anyone outside of game dev know their names. Sjoerd choosing to leave Epic is definitely one of those moments.

If working code was ever a metric by itself, we wouldn't need people to figure out how to write code. You want code that does everything you described, nothing you didn't describe, and isn't likely to let people use it for something it's not supposed to do. The devil is always in the details.

i'm beginning to think that deploying a bunch of financial software that can never be changed or retired might have been a mistake

Anthropic is an actual cult run through deception. Jack Clark should be ashamed of himself as should anyone who doesn’t actively critique this. These are blatant lies! www.ft.com/content/e176...

New newsletter: Generative AI is becoming the new crypto and multi-level marketing scam, promising non-techies that they can vibe-code their way to prosperity, without being candid about the costs and risks. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...

ec.europa.eu/commission/p... This decision is not unexpected. But we were prepared. Hence, we're pushing forward with @europarl.europa.eu ammending #StopKillingGames to the Digital Fairness Act. We can move on without the @ec.europa.eu and their non-decision Contact your member of Parliament today

WEEEIRD bsky.app/profile/vexo...

Where's the harm in AI hype? Exhibit A is billionaires attempting to use "AI" to attempt to pass big tech's biases as if they were universal truth. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Signal attacks UK plan to scan devices for nude images as "mass surveillance" The UK says tech firms could face fines if they fail to adopt stronger protections for children www.techspot.com/news/112712-...

this article is circulating with a COMPLETELY bullshit framing and clickbait lie about it, the "ai cybersecurity" firm is actually training AGAINST AI and the conan series is about helping people spot deepfakes and other gen-ai material, beginning with the famous robert smigel video mouth sketches

As someone who used to work on licensed comics (Rugrats, Cartoon Network etc) it absolutely blows my mind that stuff like this is going out on official products. We'd get dragged over the coals if a spot colour was one Pantone reference out. Now? Sure, Donald has seven fingers. Why not?

bsky.app/profile/chri... I get why would somebody think that remastering old comic scans would be a good use for gen AI But I've been comparing these 2 images repeatedly and every time I find a completely different issue that should alone be a reason to kill the use of this tech for this use case.

There's been some furore recently about another project, which coincidentally kicked off around the same time this one did, to "remaster" STC using AI on the old, low-res scans, but if that sentence alone isn't enough to put you off, I think this comparison kinda shows why you should keep clear.

hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.

ICYMI: In a data breach notice filed by Meta overnight, the company said its Meta AI chatbot "worked properly and functioned as intended," despite hackers abusing the chatbot to hijack literally thousands of Instagram accounts over a months-long campaign. By me at this.weekinsecurity.com:

Honestly? The idea that a dev can just review the output of the LLM and detect fix any bugs it could introduce is probably just a myth.

Wow so they were right, mythos is going to destroy the world. But not by finding bugs. But by causing developers to introduce AI-slop security fixes that break things. Can't even update rsync safely pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/r...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

The Ellisons are testing the very limits of even their incredible funds and the entire thing hinges on whether Oracle gets paid by OpenAI! Larry Ellison has $21bn+ in personal loans with his stock as collateral. Oracle needs OpenAI to pay it $70bn a year

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US • 1TB OLED $649 -> $949 • 512GB OLED $549 -> $789 still out of stock store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Ask yourself: Why would a settlement over leaked tax filings include a prohibition on examinations of previously filed returns? One answer, which lots of people are missing: For years, Trump has been fighting an IRS audit that could have resulted in a $100M bill. No longer, apparently.

After years of looking for a problem for the AI solution. Google's team has finally come up with an innovative idea called "Google Alerts with more steps" bsky.app/profile/tech...

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

“University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models.”

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.

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No idea why people keep saying this is an intentional backdoor. Why would MS do this to their users willingly? www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

What’s striking is how many companies and organizations don’t then just connect the dots. “We could use this new capability to knock off every bug on our list!” or “What if we could deliver all of the features our users were asking for?” Instead of using this as a pretense for layoffs and abuse.

But they are correct, aren't they? It's really simple. Many of these companies are "too big to fail". People are going to continue using windows because it's a monopoly and the whole ecosystem locks you in. It doesn't matter how many bugs there are. What's the incentive to fix bugs? none.