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This week in #EliteDangerous My anaconda don't want none, does yours? There are moments of working in games that barely feel real. The panther was a long payoff, but the anaconda is just forty years iconic. I hope you have as much fun with this as I have. Fly dangerous, commanders.

This week in #EliteDangerous even I'm getting excited by ship teasers these days, it's just brilliant. I was stargazing this week, and there was that weird feeling that I can just GO THERE. Like, the stars. Any of them. I mean I've always known this but there was something magical about feeling it.

This week in #EliteDangerous ... Do ya dig it? Get your motor running, head out on the highway.

Can you imagine seeing this all those years ago and thinking Y'know what this Road needs is a great big hole under it.

Shenanigans!

Second best pretzels.

This week in #EliteDangerous ... Pride, to be honest. It's been a funny old week but I have a team that doesn't stop. Pride and biscuits.

This week in #EliteDangerous has seen it all happening! An ambitious release with a lot going on and just the latest in a series of iterative and incremental improvements. Over the past few years delivering new features and revisiting existing mechanics, and a stepping stone to the future. O7

This week in #EliteDangerous Either you are an explorer, and we've got a cheeky little vessel for you, or you are kicking ass for Frontline and there more options than ever before. And yes, frontine will send a runner to pick you up from the Black too. Just park up and get into the action. O7

I drive this route most weeks. Thass a big ole hole.

This week in #EliteDangerous A new light dawns on the galaxy. The surface is calling.

This week in #EliteDangerous ... I have mostly been lithobraking. Perhaps my flight needs more assistance than I'm willing to admit! Are y'all excited? Watcha flying these days?

This week in #elitedangerous I still get stupid excited about small details. And I hope I never lose this.

#EliteDangerous Ship Life. o7

Explore the surface and get closer to new discoveries than ever before in Elite Dangerous' next new vessel. Take your first look at the design concept of the ship-launched Nomad in today's article. https://fron.dev/446b

This week in #EliteDangerous. For those who know me, this is what it's all about. I get excited each release. A ritual of steams, twitch, and youtube with a window mosaic showing a mix of familiar partners and names that are new to me. So Yeh, we gonna. bsky.app/profile/fron...

OK I don't often post Carrie, who is not here for content. But also I got home a while ago and she just wants to prevent laptop access.

This weekend in the code mines, slipped and wrote some GPU lodding with OpenGL 4.6 I sat down to fix a 6502 pixel error, but ended up knee deep in RTX shaders. Now I have a kinematic hierarchy with mesh shaders so I've got that going for me which is nice. I like writing code by hand.

This week in #EliteDangerous It ain't half hot mum.

This week in #elitedangerous ... The Lynx Liner! I joined FDev 5 or 6 years ago becoming a custodian of the massive space adventure sandbox I loved. It's been hard work, I'm proud of my team and the Lynx has become a symbol of the shared journey we have been on together as a team and community. o7

Lords of cobol, hear our prayer.

My 2020s AI journey has come to an end. As a long term professional game developer who cares about the human experience more than anything, I've come to a dead end with the technology. I'll get back to writing about games now :) The full goodbye is here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Well, my AI coding adventurers have been fun but are coming to a close, and I'm working on the final write-up. An 80b qwen with 256k context is woefully insufficient to help with simple tasks in code ~1% the size of a real game. I've still been unable to find anything it can help with.

Gonna make a hookup app for geeks called "pull request" #geekjoke

You and me baby ain't nothing but yaml, So let's do it like they do it on the properties panel.

If you like languages where whitespace matters please reach out. We can help you. If you design a language where whitespace matters you are going to hell. Straight to Hell. To the boiler room of Hell. All the way down. Python and yaml I'm looking at you.

My AI coding "assistant" just gave me a inappropriate singleton that I'm going to have to remove. And uses strings where it should very obviously use integers. If it makes bad decisions like this, whose code was it trained on? I can identify and reject these, but would an inexperienced developer?

This AI agent has suggested that perhaps we should try again later when I have more patience or try something else. An alternative would be that its less wrong all the time. There are only so many times I can call out a liar who responds with "You're absolutely right!" before I give up.

Bluesky doesn't really allow for essay answers, so I put this weeks AI thoughts onto substack where I try, once again, to find value in this new technology. It was an interesting journey, if anybody can tell me what the destination is I'd appreciate it. rogerbennett1.substack.com/p/2020s-ai-a...

I'm on a train so no AI programming adventurers this week, but I am able to sit and develop some human made code. I did encounter the phrase "Slop jockey" as a pejorative for AI programmers. This week I'm trying to pull every trick to not allocate memory, and reduce, reuse, recycle my footprint.

I can't always tell what gizmo has been up to. But IDK. This lil ginger boy has it all going on.