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Jon Valdés

jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

<p>At Frostbite rendering team.<br />Spaniard in Stockholm</p>

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    I&amp;#39;m seeing something interesting regarding LLMs. I&amp;#39;m seeing some folks use LLMs to push something further than any team of humans would reasonably push it before going insane. They might be pushing perf, memory usage, precision, accuracy... Humans would have gotten 80-90% there, then leave that last 10-20% as &amp;quot;not worth it&amp;quot;. LLMs allow people to push things to absurd levels. But pushing things that hard still requires lots of effort, and care. It still requir...

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    Watched the new Resident Evil movie yesterday, and I&amp;#39;m ready to call it: that movie will join Evil Dead and Shawn of the Dead in the category of &amp;quot;horror movies to watch with friends and laugh your ass off&amp;quot;.

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    Traditional open source: &amp;quot;Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow&amp;quot; Slop open source: &amp;quot;Given enough code, all reviews are shallow&amp;quot;

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    Me: I&amp;#39;m a music connoisseur, only high quality music will convince me Also me, 1 second after song starting: OK that T-shirt is dope you&amp;#39;re the best band ever

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    After abandoning DigitalOcean for Hetzner, today it was Proton for Tuta. Tiring, but at least it&amp;#39;s one less thing where I feel my money is contributing to bad shit Also, another service I&amp;#39;m self-hosting now: email archive from every email provider I keep abandoning as they enshittify.

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    Thinking about programmers losing their coding skills because of their reliance on AI tools made me wonder if there was some other industry where heavy automation led to concerns over loss of skills. And yes, there is: airplane pilots. They train manual flight maneuvers regularly to preserve pilot skills, because when the automation fails is precisely when you need a skilled operator. Source: https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/lost-skills/

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    You: I need fidget toys that have 736 buttons, sliders, joysticks, textures and sounds Me, an intellectual: thing go boing boing and plack plack, so thing good

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    Do normies exist, or are they just a myth, like Bigfoot or Nessie?

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    Don&amp;#39;t you love it when you try a new miraculous programming tool, it begins by printing out reasonable-looking code, then starts spewing a random French sentence, and finally locks into a single word and spits 4 pages worth of it until it dies? It&amp;#39;s great

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    The more GenAI videos I get sent, the more I feel Miyazaki was right