I have been annoying a lot of people about how cool I think the Siri AI harness and architecture is recently, so while I work on the proper video/report, I made this quick messy screen recording explaining it! Hopefully it's of interest to some!

I talked to a founder today whose customers are all really nice people, because their initial market happens to be one that attracts such people. The founders themselves are nice for the same reason. They're enjoying starting a startup as much as any founders I've known.

Wake is looking better now. Added separate generators to bow and stern depth-based foam along ship edges. Good enough, ship it! 🚢 (pun intended)

Ok, fine, let's see: More people are searching daily for "counter strike" than "play games online", the search volume for web games is tiny and you aren't even close to disrupting miniclip, poki, king There are dozens of platforms over decades old, some of them are heavily curated while others have game portfolios of hundreds of thousands of games If you go to the ones with visible metrics, you'll see games which are about 5-10 years old reach 100k ratings on the very large platforms Now let's see, going on your app, all games are indeed fast slop but somehow every game has thousands of comments and likes? If you actually open the replies it's full of arabic slop and mainly other creators spamming every other game to play theirs instead. So, why? Is it maybe that your daily organic traffic is, in fact, tiny and you are trying to keep the platform alive by running ads and dangling carrots over creators heads? You set the bar for payouts to 100k plays in 30 days So you're running probably a retarded amount of ads on meta to attract people to play the slop games Let's assume you get some amazing CPC on your campaigns of $0.05 of which every second user becomes a "significant play". That means the cost to monetize one creator artificially is at least $5-20 k, which you'll absolutely try to avoid and spread over multiple creators instead so you don't have to pay additional payouts on top of ads You can run massive UGC campaigns, SEO, whatever you want, but your CAC is ass, your CLTV is probably ass and you have to pump thousands into creators WITHOUT paying them just to onboard new creators all day These are just 5 minute estimates but your platform is toast and @sequoia probably knows or whoever in their team approved this coal was doing you a favor Oh and your X launch video was botted and paid to go viral, your platform got zero signal on the largest vibe coding gametech space, X You can't buy your way in to this, we are not that dumb

Switching from a scythe to a rifle to a flaming torch, and interacting with the environment. There's an uncanny intelligence deep insides these models, and we're researching how to make games with it!

Games are great and you can learn a lot from games. But, I write for the Argument, 'edutainment' is usually 'a mediocre game as a bribe for doing work', not a game which is fun on its merits and also builds skills: theargumentmag.com/p/homewor…

TIL flock of sheep are fluid dynamics adjacent

Decided to start porting my mesh tools over to #threejs. Goal is to be able to generate a wide variety of Optimized props for Web games. What kind of Props do you need for your game? #indiedev #gamedev #Procedural

league of legends ranked is such a beautiful game unlike any others. you can load into a game and know the next 30 minutes of your life will be completely fucking wasted because your toplaner called TungTungMalzahur locked in Shaco top and there is nothing you can do about it