lol my MobyGames bio says that I have “more than a decade” of software development experience. 😄 That’s been there a while then 😬👨‍🦳

Lol Microsoft wants to be Capita now? So with this setup, rather than just outsourcing all your understanding of your code to an LLM, you outsource the interaction with the LLM as well, putting you at 2 steps removed from actually owning your systems. A 2-layer outsourcing system where arguably no-one knows how anything works. Genius.

Honestly no-one learns anything anymore. We were supposed to learn the lessons of how outsourcing makes everything worse decades ago. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-announces-2-5b-frontier-company-to-embed-ai-engineers-inside-customers/

I used to be a *little* bit jealous of the people who came of age as the indie game scene kicked off; of being that age with no ties and the ability to throw themselves into it. When I was that age games were a pretty closed shop; the computer era had shrunk and everything was going to consoles, no internet yet, no real access unless you knew the right people. But having started during a charmed period must have its own problems; those conditions were unusual, so maybe set bad expectations 🫤

I've only just got around to playing Returnal (I don't have a PS5). Really enjoying it (with bouts of mild rage) but I can't help but notice how tentacle-heavy it is. Everything is tentacles! They're great tentacles, GPU particle driven I assume, but there sure are a lot of them. Literally every enemy has tentacles of some kind. I'm starting to wonder if this is going to be referenced later on in the game as part of the clearly signposted psychological undercurrent 🤔

Full respect to Godot for banning AI generated PRs. If the submitter doesn’t 100% understand the code they’re submitting, & can’t explain every aspect of the “thinking” behind it (because there is none, just pattern matching imitating reasoning) they have absolutely no business submitting it. They’re wasting everyone’s time.

Open source is mostly people volunteering their time, which should mean extra respect for that time. They can’t write it off as “this is shit but at least I’m getting paid”