How Variable Rate Compute Shaders Improved GPU Performance in DOOM: The Dark Ages A closer look at how a close engineering collaboration between id Software and Xbox ATG brought DOOM: The Dark Ages to life.

How Variable Rate Compute Shaders Improved GPU Performance in DOOM: The Dark Ages developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/...

He does have a point.

They are not functional tests ?
( I'm not sure, I'm always lost between all the test nomenclature)

Totally true.
UI is complicated, needs complex architecture, and nobody wants to do it.

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LLM Neuroanatomy: How I Topped the LLM Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight by David Noel Ng

"I didn’t train a new model. I didn’t merge weights. I didn’t run a single step of gradient descent. What I did was much weirder:

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I heard they were fired, not that they have resigned...

I didn't know that...
Now I feel like every rock is a new mesh

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned.

A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

Very good advice for when you really wanna do a thing, but are afraid. <3

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me:

"The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

I would add Tencent.
Hunyuan 3D of the frontier model of 3D generation.

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH SHADERTOY

Now FragCoord is my best friend!

Here are some techniques I discovered through 14 years of shader programming:

:(
Oh, I didn't see this news...
Thanks

What am I missing ?

Where does this 'thing' come from ?

What ?

How does the AI know it was done, and the image is not generated?

Excellent

Congrats!

State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490 YouTube video by Lex Fridman

Recorded a podcast, think it’s pretty good and comprehensive, hope you like it ;) youtu.be/EV7WhVT270Q?...

Awesome thread...
I was addicted to shadertoy a few years ago...
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As jobs begin to shift with AI, I think there will be increasing numbers of people feeling like Aditya (former CTO Dropbox, early Facebook engineer, etc).

People are more psychologically resistant to major changes than you might expect, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy to reconstruct meaning.

Musical tastes are very subjective

Excellent, I love it !

New paper from Google on accelerating science using Gemini (as opposed to its specialized research AIs). Lots of case studies and interesting advice on ways to work with these system.

"We view the AI as a tireless, knowledgeable, and creative bright junior collaborator."
arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03837

$9999 ?
Not $10k ?

There is a legal limit with the amount of money the government can play with in one go ?