we don't know how to make software like that anymore

always put your mental health first. you're one of my all time favourite creators.

DF have a history of covering stuff like this - see DLSS 4.5. Why the backlash only now? They always do an initial impressions video, then dissect the tech - including all it's failings - when they get their hands on it later.

trying to draw the boundary between what is real and what is fake in an industry trying to make a real looking image out of something fake is kinda silly.

imo a tiny bit of this effect was in DLSS 4.5 upscaling and that got v positive reception

the reaction to DLSS 5 reminds me of the initial reaction to AI assisted coding 1-2 years ago. most of those software developers who were screaming in protest initially have come around to what agentic coding can do. in the meantime, the models get better and more tuned in to the task at hand

I hope neither you nor any DF staff feel any pressure to change your opinion based on this backlash

Claude is great at refactoring stuff, but the technical taste you mention is even more important then (so ultimately reinforces your point)

I do wonder tho ultimately whether Claude will eventually just automatically fix its own mess or if good technical taste will remain important

also just cut out all the news and politics. social media can be good but you have to heavily curate your feed. i regularly mute people with valiant causes but they post too much politics / rage. humans did not evolve to be exposed to this much information. it's perfectly valid to restrict it.

life is hard. too hard to be your own enemy - so make sure you're being kind to yourself above all else

more practically you'll have to figure it out for yourself - maybe more gaming, maybe a break from gaming, maybe a rawdog week, maybe rewatch some beloved films, maybe get outside and touch grass

The things you do to avoid windows

They were on the right side of this particular argument. The problem is the UK government.

shader compilation stutter says hello

I'm always looking to discover games like this. Even if you don't have time to cover them, posting what you are playing on here would help!

insanity looks very different in modern life. for example, realising vscode runs pre-commit outside of your python venv

humans love to overfit rational thoughts to stupidity

every agentic ai library is either plagued by bugs, or can be reproduced better yourself in like 4 functions (or both)

ai thought leaders writing about big models being overfit in the year of 2025

nvidia are inventing the future of gaming but reddit doesnt care because its ai

the singularity i’m most worried about right now is the singularity of stupid. layers and layers of fixing the wrong thing in the wrong place for a wrong reason. we’re entering the age of compounded stupidity because pushing back on passable is too much effort and requires arcane skill

feels like more harm than good is done typehinting in python in data workflows

videogames could be a lot better if gamers didn't have such poor taste

ever have a day where you just spiral into misery for some inexplicable reason

in other news i forgot to eat breakfast and lunch

some things cannot be recovered from

New startup idea: it's just AI consulting, but we pretend to build products

men would rather rank up their elo than go to therapy

people in 2025 unironically claiming Firefox is a functioning Web browser

quitting therapy and listening to jpegmafia instantly cured my depression

partly because the game is still developing itself. i never thought i would find it this fun.

any other game ive played ive reached a skill ceiling fast but with geoguessr theres always stuff to improve on

agreed, I think it's more vital than people realise because many text tasks do not have a straightforward numerical accuracy metric. these tasks are more about quality, which we still only have human feedback for