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no matter what smart empathetic people say, ai is not thinking, and it has neither mind nor self it is pretending to think. sufficiently good pretending looks like the real thing the fact that it feels like a person says a lot about what we perceive to be human

Here's what this shader looks like with true infinite depth. It has zero additional performance cost, but I think the version that fades out early feels nicer and is more realistic (mirrors absorb light!) Still, it's pretty cool what procedural rendering enables – an infinite

As a tech-inclined person, I agree with Adam's take. Always have – operating systems long ago set the precedent that the pointer cursor is for links, not buttons, and this makes sense for the web too. But, I've noticed less techy people don't think about the distinction, and the

This is fun – write 3D "fragment shaders" in lua to solve puzzles.

"More models", the submenu where models go to die. Two years ago when GPT-4 was born, I did not expect it would depart before the release of GPT-5, but here we are with 4o and o4 – two very different models – instead. I guess we did get 4.5... but look where it just moved to 🫣

gfodor.id That's how many programmers see real-time. They think in milliseconds, not nanoseconds. In gamedev a millisecond is a LOT of time. If your algo requires 1ms of CPU or GPU time, you need to negotiate to get it accepted. 1ms is a big investment. You only have 8 of those at 120Hz.

Reservoir sampling is a neat trick! Sam here put together an awesome interactive essay about it.

Now that em dashes are a mainstream signal of AI generated content, they might be dead. Time for the en dash to shine! You still get to flex typographically while flying under normie radar by looking similar enough to a hyphen.

Reinvent the wheel. Obsess over things. Learn the hard way. That's the path to mastery.

I’m hiring for my game development company If you have exceptional ability and like video games lmk!

New, seemingly "world changing" tech adoption is always much slower than the timelines hyped by the people selling it. Corp/gov gears turn slowly.

Tried finding a spreadsheet containing "some text" in a google drive folder. Asked Gemini, it said the text doesn't exist and shared irrelevant files instead, twice. Typed the text in the search bar and found it instantly. AI can be impressive, but too often it's a distraction.

"Dad, what's enshittification?" Well, it's like how Samsung just slapped this basic rounded corner on the edge glow, instead of matching the C2-continuous squircle of the physical screen. Apple never would've allowed this... a decade ago.

Tried using Codex. Gave it a very easy task on a single file and it completely fumbled it. Tried again and it spent 30 minutes working, only to delete code it never should've touched. Cool concept, but I could never trust this for multi-file refactors etc.

Lots of liquid glass criticism (of screen captures) focusing on the "phantom motion" the refraction effects add. I suspect this is a non-issue when you're directly controlling the UI. Like feeling comfortable driving a car, but getting car sick in the passenger seat.