Rahul Gupta

Graphics Programmer| Ex- @ArkaneStudios Austin | @playRedfall
Opinions are my own.

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

overheard from friends talking about AI in China, and it’s very alarming

- AI short films went massive in China market because of how good the video models are now

- the first wave of people who mastered using AI to generate short films and comics made quite some money because they could produce a lot more content than traditional workflows

- but within just a few months, everybody and their mom could make equally good short films because all the expertise could be written in a markdown file

- when everyone’s more productive, no one actually has an advantage and it’s a race to the bottom. very quickly it became impossible to make money, and everyone’s busier than they were without AI

- the only one making money now is companies like bytedance who owns user demand and distribution. they sell ads to creators who pay to get traffic, and eventually ad spend became 80% of those creators’ operating expense, while AI tokens is less than 5%

so what are the problems here?

1. there’s no moat if you are creating anything with AI

if a human is really good at something, and it’s hard to find more humans who can do the same, they can leverage the scarcity of their skill to get paid very well

but if AI is good at something, it will be infinitely replicated, so there’s no scarcity hence you can’t really expect a sustainable business by creating anything with AI

2. more creators created more content people actually liked. that’s a good thing

but the economical benefit of that all got absorbed by the distribution platforms

there’s a famous chinese poem 遍身罗绮者，不是养蚕人 - it basically says people who dress well aren’t the people making dresses. that’s exactly what’s happening here

if our society doesn’t figure out a better way to distribute wealth, AI will help billionaires become trillionaires while average people become more exhausted than ever

[Denis Bondarev @denisbondare]

Found this cool cave while hunting for mushrooms this morning. Swear it wasn't there yesterday. Excited to go in!!

[Cooler @coolerwave]

BREAKING: Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face on my Android that I never took. Phone was secretly taking them almost every time I picked it up. Even when I was just lying in bed. Even at home.

Not screenshots. Real frames from the front camera. On the train. In the car. At home. When I just grabbed it to check the time.

They were just sitting in a system cache. Timestamps and GPS on them. Nothing in Gallery. Nothing in Recently Deleted.

Plugged the phone into my laptop, made a full backup, told Claude Code to look for any front-camera files that weren’t in my photos. It pulled /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and another folder inside Google Play Services. Over 14 thousand files. Normal ones and infrared from Face Unlock. Every single one had time and location.

Started scrolling. Almost everything from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this.

Google and the phone makers say Face Unlock turns everything into a mathematical model and deletes the image right away. On this phone the raw frames were just sitting there. Some of the processes writing to that folder were from system diagnostics. Couple of old apps that still had camera permission could also get in.

Turned off diagnostics, revoked camera access from everything that doesn’t need it, cleared the cache. But how many of these frames already went somewhere else, I don’t know.

If you want to check yours, plug it in, make a full backup or use ADB, and ask Claude to look for front-camera files outside your Gallery. Path above is where mine were.

[Babylon 5 News @B5News]

RIP to the great Walter Koenig, who brilliantly played Psi Cop Bester on all five seasons of Babylon 5. A frightening performance by a wonderful man.

[Dmitriy Kovalenko @0xfflock]

A video about the state of cybersecurity as of October 2026

[Mary Ruth @ruthhful]

As a developer, you never want to see this. But as a huge fan, this one hurts in particular. My heart goes out to all these talented folks.

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: Claude is officially a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT and is BLACKLISTED from the ENTIRE defense supply chain

>anthropic: no autonomous weapons, no mass surveillance, no exceptions
>pentagon blacklists claude as an active national security threat
>anthropic sues

Federal court ruled 2–1 AGAINST Anthropic:

"As Anthropic admits, the company encodes restrictions into Claude that prevent the model from performing tasks that Anthropic wishes to prevent."

"On more than one occasion, these restrictions have stopped Claude from performing tasks requested by government users":

>refused to perform "tasks that were appropriate in a national security context"
>refused CDC queries on infectious disease prevention research
>anthropic questioned claude's use in the military operations

"Anthropic's Chief Science Officer explained how the company 'seek[s] to embed safety considerations directly into the model itself.'"

"[Anthropic's] CEO explained how such training gives the model an 'identity, character, values, and personality' of its own, tethered to a 'constitution' developed to impose 'high-level principles and values' on Claude itself."

"We have no reason to doubt that Anthropic manipulates Claude's function with noble intentions... BUT the statutory definition of a 'supply chain risk' turns on what Anthropic does, not why Anthropic does it."

"In our Republic, it is the President and the Secretary of War who must determine how best to balance the competing risks. In doing so here, the Secretary DID NOT transgress any limits on his authority."

ITS OVER.
ANTHROPIC IPO IN SHAMBLES

[Julien Eveillé @PATALOON]

Hey friends! I'm probably gonna have some extra time for design freelance work (or more?).

My career:

- LD at Arkane Lyon for almost 8 years
Dishonored IP, DEATHLOOP, Marvel's Blade.

- LD at Crytek for 2 years
Crysis 4, HUNT: SHOWDOWN.

- Shipped THRESHOLD as a solo dev.

[Gabriel Dechichi @gdechichi]

the C engine is finally ready for prime time, it's name is Kaigen.

in the next few days I'll start posting more demos, and re-posting old demos, with playable links and intake forms for a closed beta.

if you're a professional game or 3D app developer who wants to give your users the smoothest possible experience, on *every* platform. DM me.

[Wccftech @wccftech]

AMD's new ray tracing technique slashes BVH memory usage from 80 GB to just 1.7 GB, runs 500 million animated triangles at 60+ FPS on RX 9070 XT. 🔗 https://t.co/ltvQlHldru

[Ray @raysan5]

my favorite set of tools for coding

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

Ok this is starting to feel like a f*cking disaster.

The CEO of Anthropic just published an article admitting AI is already building the next generation of AI by itself.

He says within 6 to 12 months a rogue swarm could take over the entire internet and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

And what makes it scarier, Elon Musk just backed up everything Dario said.

All of this dropping just days after Jacob Coxon went viral with his warning about AI and the extinction of humanity.

Tell me this timing isn't strange.

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@raysan5 @raylibtech I meant that as an insult to AI code. For people who don't understand that it's not shipppable, scalable and institutional knowledge gets lost.

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@raysan5 @raylibtech AI can probably do it better, but but is it maintainable in the long run, is it shippable, scalable, who cares!!!

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@Jonathan_Blow I have an instruction put in for problems like this where it's only meant to look at and fix the grammatical issues. No re-write, no rewording, no truncation of any kind without explicit authorization irrespective of access level.

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@cozymaximalist I see that you forgot to mark the arms and the legs!! they mine now :P

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@Botan_cr Call it whatever you want but now AI gen content comes with deep non removable meta data and is a slowly beocming a hard requirement from a lot of countries and regions. Surely enough soon watermarks on AI Gen will become a hard reality as well.

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@IndieGameJoe This remind me a little of Noita!!! pretty cool and hyped for the game!! take me monies already and giob early access already 😅 Pwease🫰

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@claudeai @AnthropicAI
Reasons why customer support should not be automated like this, when I can't get support what am I supposed to do?
I wouldn't need to do this on social media like this if I could still eventually reach a human operator beyond the AI assistant #claudeIssues

[Rahul Gupta @GameDevRahul]

@your_niaaaa When you switch very rapidly, it shows lack of commitment and while this may work till L2/L3 roles depending on the levels the company has. It does not work well for senior or principal positions well. And serves as a red flag. It the work culture and environment are good stay!