Narrative violation: according to @Stanford research, local models can answer 71.3% of real-world chat and reasoning queries accurately, up from 23.2% in 2023. Obviously at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption of frontier APIs. The obvious conclusion: you don't need a frontier model for most tasks. The future is multi-model: local, open-source, smaller and cheaper for the majority of workloads, frontier APIs when no other choices!

Small update on the visual editor idea. The tool itself is not the hard part. With vibe coding, building a platform where you import a reference image, import a tileset, place assets on a tilemap and export clean JSON is actually pretty fast. The real problem starts before that: creating usable game assets. First issue: dimensions. I ask GPT for a 3200x640 image. Most of the time, it does not respect the exact size. With some manual fixing and resizing, I can make it work, but it already adds friction. Second issue, and this is the one driving me crazy right now: tiles. I need real 32x32 tiles. Not “kind of 32x32”. Not a beautiful tileset image. Not a concept sheet. Actual separated, game-ready 32x32 tiles that can be placed cleanly on a tilemap. For now, I managed to solve this better with option 2: the AI agent approach. When the agent generates the level structure directly from a prompt, I can control the logic and placement more easily. Still experimenting and iterating. The goal is to find the fastest path from a simple prompt like: "Create a 2D platformer in a [ ] theme" to an actual playable level.

Pi coding agent now runs in Upstash Box cc @mitsuhiko & @badlogicgames 🙌

Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…

🚨 Supply chain attack on the Laravel Lang organization: 700 historical versions across multiple community-maintained Laravel Lang packages were compromised with an RCE backdoor, including: laravel-lang/lang laravel-lang/http-statuses laravel-lang/attributes Laravel-Lang/actions The payload targets cloud creds, CI/CD secrets, Kubernetes tokens, Vault, browser data, password managers, SSH keys, and more.