Presumably bullshit.

And yet:

This kind of nonsense is what’s feasible, for some AI everyone agrees is “not really intelligent.” No model thinks about what code does, but you can ask what code does, and it will try to tell you. You can also describe what code is supposed to be doing, and it will try to make the code do that thing. Looping that might turn GetAnAlbumCover into GetAnalBumCover. But the result should return an anal bum cover.

“What’s supposed to be happening here?” “Is that what’s happening here?” and “What would make that happen here?” are all questions a neural network could answer. Any functionality can be approximated. Any functionality. LLMs almost kinda sorta do it, already, and they’re only approximating “What’s the next word?” It is fucking bonkers that these models are so flexible.

Do what now?

Scratch-n-sniff!

ZX Spectrum demoscene artist takes up painting.

“Buying the book means you get the book.”

“What, the author’s notes? Publishing rights? I’m confused because video games are different somehow!”

A decade ago this would have been exciting news for mobile computing.

Enough has changed that all I can think is, uuugh.

This Town Needs Guns is some good shit.

The word “experienced” is missing from a lot of coverage.

This tech is okay at a wide variety of things. A lot of hate comes from people who can already do a thing the hard way. They’re better at it. Surprise? A thing that was barely an exciting blog post five years ago has not yet rivaled the performance of a skilled human professional, in any particular vocation.

But there’s probably something it can do better than you, personally. Not better than you could… just better than you can.

The more interesting part here is that experienced coders expected it to help. Why.

Character creator… marketplace.

Fuck entirely off.

“Prudence” was always a lie.

Conservatives make up their own past, and for some reason, we believe them. ‘We’ve always been the party of slow reasonable change… but now we need extreme action, and it’s the outgroup’s fault!’ Gun control versus Black Panthers, violence defending segregation, theocratic indoctrination over imaginary satanism, anti-gay bigotry, anti-Muslim bigotry, anti-trans bigotry-- same as it ever was. They’ve got one speed and this is it.

All that’s changed is, their bullshit is blatant beyond belief, and their figurehead is the dumbest motherfucker who’s ever taken over a country.

He’s an old bigot who doesn’t know anything about anything. There’s no need for it to be deep or complex.

Why is zooming not integer-only?

It’s pixel art. It should go 1x, maybe 1.5x, and then 2x, 3x, 4x, etc.

Maybe people are just fucking stupid.

‘Why aren’t democrats doing more, like fraud and sexism?!’

You were going to get modern rail, but conservatives are bastards.

One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.

Dull mewling.

The regulation needed is: fuck all that.

Games make you value arbitrary nonsense. That is what makes them games. Attaching a dollar price to that fiction is a category error. The entire business model is an exploitation of that confusion.

This abuse is making games objectively worse. Maximum revenue comes from addiction and frustration. Fun is an obstacle. At best, fun is bait on the hook. The actual goal, especially for “free” games, is to grind you down as thoroughly as possible to extract real money over and over and over and over. If you don’t think that’s you - neither did most people who wondered where all their money went.

Because he’s a felon?

Because he’s a fascist?

Because he was impeached twice?

Because he attempted a coup?

Because he pardoned everyone involved in the coup?

Because he’s opening concentration camps?

Because he accepts bribes?

Because he’s compromised by Putin?

It is a mystery!

Worst-case, we pretend it didn’t happen.