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!

See my prior post about the "we're fully aware it's unethical, but it's okay as long as it's not user-facing in ways that would cause backlash"

why is it that every """"reluctant"""" usage of AI by programmers ends up indistinguishable from its most passionate evangelists

My take on projects where AI-generated code is accepted but AI-generated art is not: they know it's bad and players hate it, but don't care. All they care is about the part players will see because it'll cause backlash.

I swear if I see one more fucking artist submit a pull request of AI-generated code I'm going to start replacing all of their art with programmer art.

At least today is making the cat shitting on the floor instead of in the litter box look like a positive improvement on the day.

Anyone else having a really difficult time finding the will to file and pay taxes this week?

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

My first thought on receiving an email insisting that I must log in to my account via the provided link to add a cybersecurity contact is wow that looks like phishing.

In this era of "reducing friction" and "player onboarding experience" I think back to one of the games I enjoyed when I was young where the entire starting instruction was a "Login please:" prompt.

I have always been confused at how anybody can ever get any actual work done in organizations that have scattered meetings every day. I either have a calendar up and am constantly watching it instead of working so I don't miss a meeting, or do work and ignore/miss those meetings.

This, or has ceased being produced at all.

Game workers do not receive any residuals/royalties on shipped titles and shipping bonuses are increasingly rare. There's also no guarantee that your name will even be in the credits if you leave before ship, and studios will use this to keep you compliant. All of this can and should change.

Recently have heard a lot of people pushing for AI adoption in projects say "AI is okay we just have to review it carefully" and then they don't. This is completely believable. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Who the fuck cuts a sandwich wrap diagonally?

It's going to be really expensive in a few years when the US has to invalidate and destroy several years of produced currency.

Like he hasn't devalued our currency enough

MacBook (mid-2014) is finally dying. Guess it's time to rebuild my old Win10 hardware that couldn't support Win11 as a Linux box and migrate.

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

Today's round of people who use genAI are all dipshits: Someone taking a system with separated backend data and client presentation layers and throwing it into genAI to update the presentation, which rewrote the backend in a different language to use server-side rendering for the presentation.

Stupid sexy treetimes.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Thanks again for another shit update, Microslop. Power outage caused it to decide to install the update on boot. It has now installed to 30% then rebooted 5 times in a row. And related: fuck everyone pushing AI slop for coding. You are all fucking idiots who should not be permitted near a computer.

TFW the power goes out and your first two thoughts about the cause are that it's either war or AI-related and not that it's the Texas power grid.

Best spam email of the day.

Apparently they've now found a way to take the sky from you.

Today's new concept: DLCSS5. DLSS5+CSS: two awful technologies being awful together.

Still feel this way, with many many more examples backing up my opinion as a project devolves into everything-must-be-genAI.

A frequent AI programmer pattern: To Public "Look at this great thing I made with AI" In Private "Hey real programmer, my thing I made with AI doesn't work. Can you fix it for me?"

It warmed back up enough here that the invasive creature known as the "leaf blower" is once again shouting its mating call all day long.

Fun to see how the erroneous predictions line up with how the crypto super PACs were spending. I've spoken before about how Polymarket — despite its PR claims about being more accurate than polls — is often a better signal of what crypto holders WANT to have happen.

I don’t think people really grasp how effectively Talarico’s kind Christianity is an existential threat to Christian Nationalism.

Some days I get so many "let AI do it for you" popups in online services I use that want to see every AI company and every tech CEO buying into this shit yeeted into the sun.

New term for those who submit obvious AI-generated code in pull requests: sloppers.

It will take considerably fewer pitchforks and torches to stop this madness.

Why does canceling subscriptions always require the magic ritual of refusing their offer three times? Are all these services run by fae or demons?

All the sports betting sites now calling themselves "prediction markets" and advertising how you can "trade on the outcome of the game and the spread" and "trade live during the game" on Twitch lately always bring this scene into my head: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jl...

Spread for reach, please? In the past 20 years, have your wages increased more than the cost of living? Or has the cost-of-living out stripped your wages’ growth?

In the ongoing ensloppification of everything, last night a new banner about AI features being enabled showed up in my company's Slack for my partner but not for me. It turns out they added some new "features" that ignored all previous choices to opt-out and enabled them automatically.

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

Seeing some photos coming out of GDC and not a single person wearing a mask anywhere in them.

Check on your friends in Austin, because

Thanks Microslop for auto-installing a Windows update that left my system unable to boot and drops it in to BIOS. Can we all start charging them for this slop while we're forced to stay on their platform?

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Working with vibe coders, the experience: 1. Vibe Coder A opens PR late at night on a weekend for a system where they have zero domain knowledge 2. Vibe Coder B who has zero domain knowledge approves the PR 3. Real programmer starts their day on Monday, sees the change, and goes "this is all wrong"

They’re still lying to us. www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

"I ask for, not *at once* no government, but at once a better government." - Henry David Thoreau

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

There is not enough coffee/whiskey in the world for me to review a pull request on a client project that is an AI-generated script that outputs a list of files to another AI-generated script which pipes the output directly into "rm -f"