Jochem Kuijpers 🎃

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃

@jchmoe.bsky.social

he/him 🇳🇱 Sr. Network Programmer @ Nixxes Prev @ Guerrilla 🩷💛🩵/🖤🩶🤍💜 🌐 https://jochem.dev/ pfp by @ldbean.com!

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
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I woke up, and want to clarify: Note that none of my arguments were - AI output is ugly/I can always tell - AI can't do my job well - AI looks different from human output These are not sustainable arguments. As AI evolves they will likely erode. That's why I wrote a huge list of DURABLE arguments:

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃@jchmoe.bsky.social

Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database
@eddcoates.bsky.social

Someone ran a poll on X, asking players if they would prefer "all games on Steam made by humans" or "all games on Epic made by AI". 139,568 people voted, with just 1.6% voting for AI and Epic. Faith in humanity restored!

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
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Companies are trying to hype up their AI chatbots: "18% of working people worldwide have used our product". Yes, and 6 billion people watched the Gangnam Style video, and then we all continued with our lives. 🤷

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

I'm going to stop doomscrolling here. I suggest if anyone's reading this, they do the same and find something to *enjoy* for a bit. The primitive urge to acquire all possible information about the dangers that threaten us is not helping right now.

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Is it too outlandish to suggest that the closure of Bioware (and others) and the cancellation of a new Sims game are the direct consequences of selling EA to a hostile, anti-queer, authoritarian police state using private equity from US-Conservative politicians? Who could've seen this coming 🫠

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

If anything, today showed everyone how much of the internet still runs on that one scrappy little scripting language, that never has any CVEs 🤔 I'm curious why this vulnerability got so much attention. It didn't even get a catchy name! 😄

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Using the 1000+ names in the credits to explain how modern games get made is totally fine, it's a great opportunity to show the relationship between a core dev team, codev partners, contractors and outsource teams. But framing it like learning this is equivalent to discovering a cover-up, not cool.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

'Star Wars Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people' aftermath.site/star-wars-gala...

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

I think its super cool that a team of 75 can pull this incredible collaboration off. There are a staggering number of parties and people involved in the creation of this game specifically. I'm impressed it came together into a cohesive game! 'core team' means exactly that; the team at the center.

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bean🌱
@ldbean.com

decided I'd roll for a random number between 1-31 for a #sculptober prompt during stream today, ended up rolling a 1. I managed to do 1 & 2 by the end of the stream :3 here's BRUTE and CYCLOPS! #b3d #sculpt

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bean🌱
@ldbean.com

wow, what a refreshing read for a change 💚

House House@househouse.com

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Genuinely concerned about the engineers at YouTube who work on the "Show me fewer shorts" button feature. Are they OK? Has anyone fed or watered them in a while? Did they get enough sleep? I'm really rooting for them but I'm losing hope. 😭

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Marion Allard
@marlard.bsky.social

Some research today into how to illustrate the books for Marsozoic. Trying my hand at sketching + watercolor. I'm absolutely over the moon with the in-game result!!

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Maddy Thorson
@maddymakesgames.com

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

I love finding new artists through artist collaborations. It's like finding out your friends are friends with pretty cool people at a mutual hangout and you become friends as well

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
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Above all: YOU CAN DO WITHOUT You do not need to participate. You're not falling behind. It's manufactured FOMO to get you addicted to the products. Your brain will thank you, and you'll be doing a good thing for society, culture, the environment and most likely; your career.

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

This thread was written out of pure frustration with the state of the industry, at 4am. I might have gotten things wrong but I'm pretty confident I can back all of these up with sources if pressed.

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
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- Data centers are built where land is cheap and permits are easy to get, which are often areas vulnerable to exploitation, pollution and disruption of nature (ground water level, for example) - The last thing we need right now is an arms race to build power-hungry data centers

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Product: - AI products are extremely interchangeable; AI product selecting will be almost exclusively done by price point. Leads to a race to the bottom, or alternatively rely on (illegal) industry price fixing. - Local models also have many of the above problems, but are generally cheaper.

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

- AI coders report 'atrophy' of their own programming skills - A significant portion of code on the internet by now is AI generated. Given that most AI code sucks and makes common errors, AI models are likely to repeat these errors unless explicitly prompted not to ("model collapse")

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Environmental: - AI requires some of the most power-hungry chips, much more so than most other applications - The mining and production for hardware heavily pollutes, disproportionately affects the global south - High-end servers are not built to last more than a few years before they are scrapped

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Programming-specific: - AI products have destroyed the chain of mentorship in companies and open-source projects - AI tools externalize responsibility for code quality: "the model messed up" etc. - Automated code reviews devalue human understanding of the code

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

- AI tools lead to less stable architecture/interfaces, which increases risk of instability/regressions/bugs - AI reduces the cost of low-impact tasks, increasing productivity metrics while lowering overall impact - AI coders are extremely replaceable, which I imagine will affect career prospects

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Creativity/skill: - Effort is part of the process; it leads to better and more meaningful results - Individual experience and expression induces variance in outcome and moves culture and tech forward - Discovery and execution leads to a better understanding than reading a AI's solution ever could

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

Political reasons: - Allocating scarce resources to benefit the few is unethical and unsustainable - AI infrastructure disproportionately hurts marginalized communities while benefiting the wealthy - AI companies concentrate information, wealth and power

Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

hey go play this if you dare 👀

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

optimist: the glass is half full pessimist: the glass is half empty backend engineer: we've set up a horizontal autoscaler, when the average glass utilization exceeds 50%, it'll add new glasses and redistribute the load. When the average utilization drops, we'll eliminate glasses to save on cost.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃
@jchmoe.bsky.social

I want to make stuff again, and I want to have energy to make stuff again. I also want to be social, keep up with friends and make new ones! While I like my job, it just takes up so much of my energy, creativity, and time.. I'm in a privileged position even having this job, but it's a struggle :(