july 7

When folks say they have 10x'd their productivity with AI, most of the time this is what is actually happening:

Especially because I see so many folks talking about using AI to generate 10x more 'artifacts', and arguing that therefore they are 10x more productive. 10x of documents nobody reads it's 10 x 0 = 0

The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

I have released my level scripting i/o system, it's called JoeIO and it works great for me and at work but it's early so be gentle and just holler if you come across any weirdness. An explanatory video is below www.joewintergreen.com/joeio-a-leve...

@tonyalbrecht.bsky.social Came across this today: youtu.be/zprSxCMlECA?... C64 demo that doesn't need the actual C64, but just the drive.

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo. IQ over 1000

I'm soft-launching my compiler project minc today. It compiles directly to minimal native executables for x64 Windows (PE), x64/ARM64 Linux (ELF), ARM64 macOS (Mach-O), ARM64 iOS, ARM64 Android (.so), and WASM. See minc.dev

Here are over 150GB of free sound effects, royalty-free and commercially usable on your #gamedev projects sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

Storing undecorated names for private/local/static symbols inside PDBs was a stupid, stupid, stupid idea. Mangled names would be smaller and unambiguous. On top of that, they're already there in the object files.

Today is a beautiful day for updates! On the Stable channel: rolling up a large number of features, perf optimizations, and QoL changes made over the past months On the Insider channel: support for our instrumentation API has been implemented on PS4 & 5! Go check it out!

I had to code this one myself to convince myself it was real. The yellow and blue "busses" are moving smoothly at exactly the same speed. from https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/04/28/the-stepping-feet-illusion/

BTW, there's no magic here. Experienced coders from my peer group are unlikely to find anything of interest to this. The feedback otherwise largely seems to be that there are coders unfamiliar with the possibility that you can just sit there & continuously write code that actually gets stuff done.

Explains where they get silly metrics like "70% of our developers use AI!" from. They want to approach 100% with that and tell their shareholders that *everybody* uses AI.

New blog post! In "Quantizing tangent frames", we look at various established methods to represent tangent frames in the vertex data, squeeze a few variants into 32 bits per vertex and look at the resulting precision. zeux.io/2026/04/30/q... Share, like and subscribe!

LOL!

Why do I work on a game? I currently spend most of my programming day reading and writing assembly code, which can fatigue my brain pretty fast. Compared to that, working on a game seems... easy and relaxing?

If you also grew up with The Last Ninja on C64 like me, do yourself a favour and grab Matt Gray's latest Reformation 5 release. The Inner Sanctum is bloody *perfect* (wait for the drop at 2:14): mattgray1.bandcamp.com/track/the-in...

Yes, it takes a constexpr string to check at compile-time if the event that the code wants to emit is known by the source class. Nice benefit: all events are automatically logged once they are triggered, and the real implementation only deals with hashes, no strings anywhere. Looks like this:

Spent another hour on the I/O system I did recently. With C++ hot-reload, it's *amazing* how fast I can add new events and actions, and tie them up in the editor. I can go in, add a new event to a static array, trigger that in code, and almost instantly use it in the editor.

Ah it's getting messy. (I'm the first to admit that having __attribute__((init_priority(101))) anywhere is not a good sign)

Things I thought I'd never do: Write code that disassembles the executable segment of all loaded modules at runtime, finds all inter-library calls and jumps to functions which we want to hook, and determines the type of hook to be used for these automatically.

Our Micropolygon pipeline (MPH) rendering the NVIDIA Zorah demo assets in #Anvil. Zorah is composed of nearly 500 million triangles — but that doesn’t scare us 🙂

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

It's happening: Live++ on Linux, very very early Alpha. All credit for this goes to @maus-games.at from @mipumi.com who's working on this.

Implemented my I/O system today. Works on all classes that expose Events & Actions, completely generic: no base class, void*, or virtual functions; uses ptr-to-member-funcs & templates. Triggers use an index-based intrusive linked list, everything can be trivially serialized!

Here are the slides for my "Live++: A Bag of Tricks" talk presented at Guerrilla Games last Friday. Enjoy! PPTX: liveplusplus.tech/downloads/Gu... PDF: liveplusplus.tech/downloads/Gu... #cpp

INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS finally done. gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

Gave a talk at Guerrilla Games this morning (slides coming on Monday). Met a bunch of very welcoming, fun and smart people and the tech they built is nothing short of amazing! Had lots of fun hanging out with you folks, thanks so much @jeremy.laumon.name for inviting me!

Large-array index-based intrusive linked lists are underrated for fully dynamic gameplay. Every operation is O(1), no memory allocation anywhere, serialization of the whole tree-like data structure is a single memcpy. For performance, simply work on the large array in bulk.

Anyone focusing on AI gains in Lines Of Code is missing the point. If that was useful, we would have been hiring programmers this whole time based on typing speed. This post is the right way to think about things: cycle time, not output. andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-...

Thanks Mike, that's great to hear!

Goes to show that nobody cares what your product looks like, if it's an awful, unmaintainable mess - as long as you're selling shovels to people who really think they need to be digging for gold, you're good.

OPPORTUNITY - Lead Writer - Amsterdam Not affiliated. Shares welcome. www.guerrilla-games.com/join/lead-wr...

I wonder where the build overhead is coming from when compiling in the VS IDE (2026 in this case). Recompiling through Live++ is consistently faster, 6 times as fast in this case. Even compiling & linking & patching is much faster than just compiling a file through VS.

someone already vibecoded (a bad clone of) this and shared it online because we live in the worst timeline y'know it kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner, AI or otherwise

New article! A user is reporting full system freezes while using Superluminal on Linux. What do you do? Cry? Well, we did a little bit. But we also dove into the kernel...again, this time fixing several issues in eBPF's spinlock implementation. Read all about it: rovarma.com/articles/a-t...

www.cladlabs.ai/blog/introdu... Very clearly shows the problem with AI being slapped onto everything these days: you don't know if it's a joke or will get acquired for a few million.

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds. In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

Live++ 2.11.2 out now! liveplusplus.tech/releases.html This release includes quality-of-life improvements and a fix for a rare edge case when compiling with the MSVC toolchain. #cpp

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/m... Have we reached peak "build what you want, as long as it has anything AI in it, somebody will buy it" hype yet? Astounding.

Hot take: If you're writing ImGui-style code in C++ without any kind of code hot-reload, you're holding your computer wrong.

New blog post: Phase 1: Build information liveplusplus.tech/blog/posts/2... #cpp

No no no, Sony shuts down Bluepoint? I'm sorry for everybody at Bluepoint, that really sucks. Guess it's that time of year again until end of March, probably lots of news like this to come :(. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We've just released a new Insider update with some much-requested features, like being able to specify env vars when running, auth support for symbol servers, and proper progress reporting for symbol downloads. And of course, many fixes & QoL improvements. Go check it out!

oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

AI slop paving its way through codebases like the cancer it is.

Reposting this for the European crowd. Please repost and share among friends, peers, coworkers - I'm trying to gauge if this has merit to be continued or not.

I've been working on something new since August 2025 and have decided to finally spill the beans: Introducing "Project Echo", a deterministic Record & Replay tool for PS5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sd... Please read the video description and let me know your brutally honest feedback!

Automatically showing latest build ID from e.g. Perforce: 1) Simple .bat file that writes a .txt, build step in Visual Studio 2) A few string views that point into the .txt 3) Render to screen 4) Profit! Sometimes it's the little things. #cpp