oh no, is AI companies’ work being stolen to train AI models that compete with them i wonder how that feels

The fact that our leaders can’t get together and say “hey, literally everyone (including the leaders at these companies!!) want this to happen more slowly so how about…you can’t build an AI data center unless it meets requirements including zero CO2” is embarrassing.

My GDC 2024 talk was recently made freely available on the vault! There I presented some practical ideas for designing and developing #GameAudio tools. Some of the concepts are also applicable to non-gamedev contexts. (The talk includes a joke or two about tools...) gdcvault.com/play/1034592...

Was gifted this amazing Dicreem pair yesterday. 100% made in Colombia! Tenis estampados I Personalizados I Hechos a mano 100% Colombianos share.google/QeiK3TmrmYw2...

This is an excerpt from an email I got this week offering a programming/development partnership. I still can't believe it. How common is this?

Jamming with Sonic Tau on my phone. sonic-pi.net/tau

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com

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It still feels very weird to me finding papers by scientists proposing a solution/tool to a content creation problem, without any of them having content creation experience. Apart from running user studies, I think any research would be more impactful with at least an artist embedded into the team.

Sharing here my experiences with Opus 4.6 this morning. It was able to sucessfully add profiling to an app + library for tracking down performance bottlenecks. It was handy and helpful. Then I wanted to add a new file to an Xcode project and it got really confused. So I ended up doing it manually.

New post in our blog! Getting Ready to Design our Sustainability Strategy. afectivo.es/blog/sustain...

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Just got "Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools, 2nd Ed" book from the post. Many thanks to @davidlightbown.bsky.social for sending me a signed copy! I think it's a must read if you are serious about #gamedev tools development and beyond. *Including a quote from yours truly

Today's music pick to help me get through the day: Boards of Canada en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_...

Last night it seems I talked while I was asleep and my wife asked this morning who are "the 1000 people they fired" that I complained about. My subconcious is still upset.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

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Added an Amiga ProTracker .MOD importer to Metron. Some...quirks, but easy fixes. Now I can plug my 30+ year chiptune back-catalogue into #UnrealEngine and put realtime sequenced music back where it belongs: in tyrannical charge of all the other gameplay systems. #gamedev #indiedev

Hey y'all, I was recently hit by layoffs at Respawn/EA: I'm a veteran #LevelDesigner with 17+yrs of exp in the AAA space (MP + SP, 3rd person + FPS). I'm seeking a Principal Level Design or Lead LD/Design Manager role (I've worked in both IC + management) if y'all are hiring/know connections!

I think perhaps the highlight of the day for me was receiving a message in my inbox about a remix my partner in crime and I did as Clubbervision back in the day (~2005). Made me think on the positive impact of the things we do even after decades after the fact has happened.

Seeing messages from people on LinkedIn saying it's the first time they post there in 15-20 years, because they are now out of a job. Not to be a fear monger, but IMO it's necessary to get involved in social media (not only LinkedIn) every other month and not only when you are looking for jobs.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Vitamin D supplement + brunch outside. Sunday is off to a great start 🤗

It's always great to hear about old colleagues and what they are up to these days with their own companies. This is an innovative pedal with zero latency wireless control from MJP mjpaudiodesigns.com #musictech

My wife and I rolled credits on Split Fiction today. It took us a while to get there, but the last episode/chapter was really mindbending and lots of fun.

Is Copilot a videogame?

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Since I'm running a business now, I've been thinking lately that I should do a social media audit in some way. Or someone/something helping me with social networks in general. What resources do people use? I'm trying to refrain myself from saying dumb things in social media but keep failing.

Wife is out with her girl friends, and I'm catching up with this movie classic at home.

Just heard from a friend that was laid off from the other game engine company. I'm glad they gave them a good severance package and garden leave. Hoping for them to land new and exciting roles soon 🤞

Not that I read the FT every day, but just came across this after lunch. Meta and Google liable for social media harm to children’s mental health in landmark US case share.google/ywmT1AR8T08x...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record again, and knowing that some people have unfollowed me here for my opinions and takes on AI etc, I think we are still taking the wrong approach about the impact of GenAI. I know it's a very sensitive topic these days so please bear with me...

Suno next

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/ (For once the clickbait headline is accurate: google's planning on swapping their own AI-generated summaries for the website you just tried to view.)

People close to me in my family and at work told me "you can't do this, you can't do that". By that time I thought they said it because of my lack of talent, grit, or capactiy. I later realised that they said it because of my lack of privilege or money. Here I am years later... still fighting.

‘Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.” Great piece in The Atlantic pointing out that AI companies spend huge amounts of money simultaneously (i) defending their own IP and (ii) arguing that they can use other people’s for free. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Unfortunately I think what happened with Crimsom Desert GenAI art is going to happen to more game developers even unintentionally, as many tools and pipelines are integrating AI, e.g., Photoshop. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/cr...

Happy Friday! Today's coding soundtrack: Portishead - Dummy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_(... I think 90s music is still saving the day.

Today marks an important milestone for @afectivo.es. We have been granted access to the coworking space in the Carabanchel Business Incubator. This is the biggest public incubator in Madrid. We look forward to continuing our journey here while we build and support innovative projects with purpose.

My partner and best friend Kyle suffered from two strokes last week. We need your help. gofund.me/e25c60dfb Anything helps, a like, a share, a donation. thank you for your support during this difficult time ❤️

We are sending out our first @afectivo.es newsletter tomorrow! As part of it, we will be sharing our latest blog post which is already available on our site. afectivo.es/blog/more-th... Note in case you are wondering: the thumbnail is an actual photo, and not AI-generated.

We have published a new ADC Conference video! Making a 3D DAW in Unity: Chaos, Logic, and Physics - Noah Feasey-Kemp - ADC 2025 #coding #daw #programming #unity

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

My wife and I made some new little friends in Aranjuez (town south to Madrid) today.

Last night I couldn't sleep so I continued reading "Uncertain" from Maggie Jackson. My last employer sent me a hard copy (thanks EA). Main takeaway that appears at the beginning of the book that helped me sleep:

Happy Friday! Today's local AI experiments: running Tadpole Studio on our M4 Mac mini (24GB shared memory github.com/proximasan/t... Initial Prompt: "Techno track at 124bpm" Output: two 5 minute tracks. Default settings, total inference time ~12 minutes using MLX backend.

The fastest code is the one that isn't written. The most efficient tool is the one that isn't created. The fastest war is the one that never happens. (Counterintuitively, any of the above requires a big concerted effort)

Updates from my end about using AI models locally for development... I've setup OpenCode + Ollama for using Qwen3.5 27B on my local inference box. Need to run more tests and work with it more, but it looks like a good fallback or even a potential replacement of Claude Opus 4.6 for many tasks.