Senior engineer @outofwordsgame | Made @playaltered
Aarhus, Denmark
Joined May 2010
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So proud to be able to show the game we've been working on for years!
We couldn't be happier going co-op with Epic Games Publishing to bring Out of Words to PS5, Xbox Series & PC on the Epic Game Store in 2026!
We hope you fall in love with this handcrafted adventure we're creating and that you will enjoy the journey with us outofwordsgame.com
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小島秀夫監督がAI時代の創作について、絵を描く面白さは完成させることよりも、その過程にあると語った。
AIによる制作の効率化を認める一方、AIに指示を出し、出来上がったものに修正を求める方法は、自身が考えるものづくりとしては「あまり面白くない」という。
プラモデルやレゴも組み立てる途中が面白いと例え、「クリエイティブ」と「商品」は別ではないかと説明。AIの使い方次第では良い未来を築ける可能性も認めつつ、創作の試行錯誤そのものにある喜びが失われる未来にはなってほしくないとの思いを明かした。
詳細：gamestalk.net/hideo-kojima-a…
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sam altman explaining why you shouldn't own your own compute is the most landlord take of the year.
'your ram sits idle 95% of the time.' so does my laptop's battery, my camera and half my house. idle is what owning something looks like.
local models are the one version of ai where nobody can cut your limits overnight, kill your plan, or read your prompts. of course the guy selling the subscription thinks that's a bad allocation
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
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The ultimate goal of the “AI” industry is to make it so you don’t own a smartphone or a computer at all. But you rent a little terminal, portable or desktop, that you have to pay them for in perpetuity to do anything online or on a computer.
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Let's talk about viral Stack Overflow monthly questions graph (less than 900 a month already btw) and takes like "AI killed it". AI did a blow, but it started declining about 5 years before first ChatGPT launched, and if we don't count slight COVID boost, it was already on its way out.
The reason we all know - absolutely unbearable toxicity from users and moderators that made people asking questions constantly walk on the egg shells, so people just started migrating to thematic discord servers with friendly people. Such as Handmade Network, Doom Emacs, and others.
People wanting to learn programming from other people and talking about programming is alive and very well. Just not on StackOverflow.
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NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art
When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents
My story...
gamefile.news/p/control-reso…
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As someone who still prefers to make games in a custom engine I wrote, the code is kind of an inseparable part of a game's character, decisions about engine structure and every little bit of code have ripples that can be felt in the end product, even if hard to pick out specifics
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Like when I make my lists of my favorite indie games, ~50% of them are custom engines or cobbled together on top of frameworks, despite like 95% of games being made in Unity or Unreal now. This isn't a coincidence
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The best thing you can do to support humans and human work if you don't want to see certain things done with AI is to support people having *time*. Time to do things, time to rest, time to follow their interests, time to talk to each other. Time, stability, support.
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why software engineers have this low self esteem?
It's very easy to disprove this. Look at AI lab engineering outputs! They hire top talent, and have unlimited tokens + unreleased powerful models.
Can you see impressive software built by them? By impressive I mean:
- low RAM / cpu usage
- good UI UX
- no blatant bugs
- minimal downtime
- obviously no electron
... why isn't this obvious?
the coding agent haters are getting dunning-kruger'd so hard right now
do you really think that your engineering ability is better than the models at this point?
it is very very likely that fable is better than you in every branch of software
it has been trained on all the code of the internet, it knows almost every trick in the book, all the design patterns of every domain, every single low-level detail, every bit-twiddling hack, it's read every single blog post from every cracked engineer that ever existed
do you really think you can beat it? do you really think you can be more creative than it?
unless you are 99th percentile expert in some niche domain of software, it simply is not possible. sorry.
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I am so much more exhausted when I program with AI than without it. I reflected a bit, and I think I know why.
First, I think about how to solve a problem. This step is the same with and without AI. Then, with AI I have to write a prompt with a decent bit of precision and somewhat more long-term than if I just jumped into straight implementing it and figuring out the details as I go.
Then you start up the agent, and you immediately have some other work to do and you jump to another prompt for another task, where you also think really hard and try to formulate what you want quite well.
By the time you're done, first agent has some code for you to review, and you can't slack - you need to actually review it and be diligent about it. And when you're done - second task is there for your review. So really there's not time to rest.
When I program manually, I can decompress while typing the code in, I can rely on my muscle memory for typing and navigating the codebase, so there's periods of deep think and some relaxation. With AI, there's only deep think. And as soon as you try to think less - you open the doors for slop.
It's so tiring.
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It's crazy that there's a tool out there that's become vital to they way I do my job, parent my kids, and make major life decisions; and yet we barely spend more on it than AI
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Blick 0.4 is out! Huge new features: We added scripting support!
Also image sequences, markers, clip sync, flip and mirror, and a long list of editing improvements.
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Been getting a few comments like this.
Why? Because we still need a world we’re people are motivated to make nice things and earn a living.
But also like, even in a world of clone-able anything, there’s value in trusting someone to care and maintain the things you love and use
