I had to share this because no one else in my life will listen.

I’m listening, but more importantly, I completely understand 😭

Also, if you think this setup (with the Xbox controller) is great, wait until the Steam Frame comes out with the new Steam Controller integration (it has IR LEDs on the front of it so you can see a virtual representation of it in the menus). You also won’t need to plug it into your PC as the Steam Frame itself is basically a full PC.

I’m so hyped about it! Finally, a real Linux OS we can customize TF out of instead of locked-down versions of Android that look like they are designed for toddlers.

I work for a huge bank and we tested voice recognition technology: Even under the best circumstances (high quality microphone with no ambient noise in a sound booth), it was far, far too easy to copy someone else’s voice by simply playing back a sliced up recording a la Sneakers (the movie). We ruled it out as an option over a decade ago.

The problem was fundamental and had nothing to do with the quality of the technology. If your bank is using your voice as a unique identifier they had better be using something else in addition to it! Because it’s super insecure.

From the perspective of human perception, people’s voices are only unique enough to about one in a few thousand. There’s a few outliers with much more unique voices but believe it or not, there’s a lot of people walking around on this earth that sound just like Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, and other voices people think are super unique.

I view an anti-cloning law as too risky: It sounds exactly like the type of thing that would prevent Grandma from cloning her own voice before going down for surgery because it just so happens to sound a lot like a famous person.

How do you implement voice cloning prevention? Human voices aren’t that unique. Also, AI voice cloning isn’t perfect. So… At what threshold is a voice considered, “cloned” from a legal perspective?

I mean, people couldn’t tell the difference between Scarlet Johansson and OpenAI’s “Sky” voice which was not cloned.

Before any of that can happen we need some non-ambiguous definitions of what “AI” is.

Now, Some Republicans Join In

FTFY, NYT. I almost put “conservatives” (which would also be true) but the article is really about politicians in office. So it’s more specific and accurate to say Republicans.

MSM needs to stop being so biased in favor of fascists. Writing a headline like this is misleading.

Due to cost cutting, norovirus decided to only do the bare minimum.

Quiet quitter!

I doubt that. New services that host the open models are cropping up all the time. They’re like VPS hosting providers (in fact, existing VPS hosts will soon break out into that space too).

It’s not like Big AI has some huge advantage over the open source models. In fact, for images they’re a little bit behind!

The FOSS coding models are getting pretty fantastic and they get better all the time. It seems like once a month a new, free model comes out that eclipses the previous generation once a month.

The mistakes it makes depends on the model and the language. GPT5 models can make horrific mistakes though where it randomly removes huge swaths of code for no reason. Every time it happens I’m like, “what the actual fuck?” Undoing the last change and trying usually fixes it though 🤷

They all make horrific security mistakes quite often. Though, that’s probably because they’re trained on human code that is *also" chock full of security mistakes (former security consultant, so I’m super biased on that front haha).

Schrodinger’s AI: It is both useless shit that can only generate “slop” while at the same time being so effective, it is the reason behind 50,000 layoffs/going to take everyone’s jobs.

You want to see someone using say, VS Code to write something using say, Claude Code?

There’s probably a thousand videos of that.

More interesting: I watched someone who was super cheap trying to use multiple AIs to code a project because he kept running out of free credits. Every now and again he’d switch accounts and use up those free credits.

That was an amazing dance, let me tell ya! Glorious!

I asked him which one he’d pay for if he had unlimited money and he said Claude Code. He has the $20/month plan but only uses it in special situations because he’ll run out of credits too fast. $20 really doesn’t get you much with Anthropic 🤷

That inspired me to try out all the code assist AIs and their respective plugins/CLI tools. He’s right: Claude Code was the best by a HUGE margin.

Gemini 3.0 is supposed to be nearly as good but I haven’t tried it yet so I dunno.

Now that I’ve said all that: I am severely disappointed in this article because it doesn’t say which AI models were used. In fact, the study authors don’t even know what AI models were used. So it’s 430 pull requests of random origin, made at some point in 2025.

For all we know, half of those could’ve been made with the Copilot gpt5-mini that everyone gets for free when they install the Copilot extension in VS Code.

Give users the power to pass all submissions through their chosen AI prompt for paraphrasing/summaries.

you will summarize and reword each title like you're a sarcastic asshole that tells the brutal truth when it is least desired.

I just passed your title through an AI with that prompt and it says:

How do we fast-track the bot-slop so we can finally stop pretending anyone here has an original thought?

🤣

Good games are orthogonal to AI usage. It’s possible to have a great game that was written with AI using AI-generated assets. Just as much as it’s possible to have a shitty one.

If AI makes creating games easier, we’re likely to see 1000 shitty games for every good one. But at the same time we’re also likely to see successful games made by people who had great ideas but never had the capital or skills to bring them to life before.

I can’t predict the future of AI but it’s easy to imagine a state where everyone has the power to make a game for basically no cost. Good or bad, that’s where we’re heading.

If making great games doesn’t require a shitton of capital, the ones who are most likely to suffer are the rich AAA game studios. Basically, the capitalists. Because when capital isn’t necessary to get something done anymore, capital becomes less useful.

Effort builds skill but it does not build quality. You could put in a ton of effort and still fail or just make something terrible. What breeds success is iteration (and luck). Because AI makes iteration faster and easier, it’s likely we’re going to see a lot of great things created using it.

FYI: Stuff like this is for automated testing, not “playing games for you” 🤣

Also, I won’t consider it realistic until it can type out, “lol git gud scrub” after ganking someone who just spawned.

Yet for some reason it still left me kinda hyped 🤷

I meant that the current reactor designs were made using AI running in big data centers with supercomputers/GPUs.

No! Which is why anyone and everyone should record every little thing they do. Everywhere they go. Everyone they talk to. Even conversations with their lawyers and doctors.

They have nothing to hide so it’s OK! Walk right up behind them and start recording. It’s fine!

When they leave their laptop somewhere without locking it, make sure to upload their browser history for the public to view.

Nothing to hide!

And I thought the gap between Overlord seasons was long!

Clearly, you do not understand THE POWER of corrugated cardboard!

8% of total global aviation emissions doesn’t put it in second place. It’s not even in the top 100. I don’t think it ever will be… Because building huge data centers takes years and by the time there’s enough data centers to make a huge dent, the previous AI data centers will have been used to make fusion power a reality.

Today’s fusion reactor designs were all made thanks to AI. The kind running in big data centers.

It takes a lot of computing power to simulate fusion reactor designs!