Kabanaw

I mean. At the end of the day, the answer is "every single free dollar in the US economy is currently tied up in the AI bubble"

Goose Was Not Valued

One annoying thing about this is the way that it's treated as a purely moral/ethical stance and not a matter of taste. I have very little interest in games that use AI not just because of the ethics, but simply because I am much less interested in creative works that used it!

I do not care if the tech stack you rely on has been filled with asbestos, I care if you personally have claude running while you work on your game. Not just because I think you're using a fascist tool, but because your work will suffer for it.

A lot of people have noted "money" but I also want to point out that a couple of games hubs are where the schools were. Albany and Boston still have a decent number of studios because that's where the software engineers graduated

The answer to why there are offices for wb games, epic, Blizzard, and cd projekt red in Boston effectively boils down to "MIT was shitting out software developers in the 90s"

I think one of the most frustrating aspects of "but actually AI is actual useful for things now" is how quickly some people will abandon principled stances against something when there's something in it for them

One point brought up in this that I don't quite understand is how more compute == more income. Is there currently a bottleneck for consumers? I don't think I've ever seen someone complain that claude is currently backed up and can't fill their request

There is such a massive gulf between what AI can do as a code assistant and what it can do as a code generator and I think how positively you think of its abilities is how much you conflate them. Either that or I don't think your ability to evaluate code is terribly good

I think this is an extremely widespread example of the whole "AI seems terrible in my domain of expertise but it seems really good in others" phenomenon

There is such a massive gulf between what AI can do as a code assistant and what it can do as a code generator and I think how positively you think of its abilities is how much you conflate them. Either that or I don't think your ability to evaluate code is terribly good

AI shit is so bad for my anxiety. On the one hand, you have lots of studies showing little to no productivity gains, but those are often somewhat out of date, and it has gotten _less_ shitty. On the other hand, people will report crazy gains using it but AI has always left people feeling like that

My belief that at the end of the day you're not going to benefit from using AI to write code is unchanged but it feels like I'm constantly being gaslit and it sucks

We're thinking that our kid's first word is "bubble" because she's been very into bubbles lately and keeps asking for us to open the bubble bottles (and blow them, I guess). Coming in close second is "boooo" because I was booing the cowboys during the ravens game and she joined in

Wow, they're actually going to do this after the final update got a bigger pop than they thought, maybe there's hope for the future after all