Josh English

VP of Eng @ Chronicle Studios | ex-Google

[Josh English @JoshSeriesAI]

You can prompt AI to write a daily news brief, and it feels magical.

Do it every morning, and the flaw becomes obvious: the prompt is only the prototype.

The real product is everything around it: evidence, claim hygiene, source discipline, degradation, and trust.

https://t.co/ZNlAUxZVKJ

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Radically upgraded my RTS tower-defense game with animated 3D meshes from a locally-hosted TRELLIS.2 pipeline: image -> cleaned GLB -> variant selection -> fused-mesh turret detection -> real gameplay.

AI assets are cool. Playable, deterministic AI assets are better.

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@Grummz Less creepy than DRM at the hardware layer

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@scaling01 Docking with ISS is way harder than orbital refuelling

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Many of my WebGL experiments are open-sourced under the MIT license here: https://t.co/kdOdRzF2lI

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I often revisit Asteroids when a new AI model drops to evaluate the performance. This last test taught me something simple: if you change the camera, you change the game: top-down vs 3rd-person vs 1st-person. Same rules, totally different experience.

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You can try it yourself here: https://t.co/6xqHuLWpOJ

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@VictorTaelin Let me guess, you're using cursor

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qwen3.6-35b-a3b running at 370.94 tok/s generation locally

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Used TRELLIS.2 to replace all of the units and buildings with 3D meshes, which I then cleaned-up and identified objects so that they are easily rendered and animated.

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@mattworkman Being ~20ft away from Amazon/MGM may have had something to do with it

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@CJHandmer Recruiters don't check your public GitHub

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@scaling01 Have thought about what OC/Hermes might look like a year from now, running on locally-hosted open weights models?

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Our panel today at AI on the Lot

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@Scobleizer I think they haven't done the math on the opportunity cost here

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@David_____1 I thought @Devon_Eriksen_ was exaggerating

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Eligibility for Grok Build finally arrived, going pedal-down now

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New ability unlocked. iykyk

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@_mohansolo I burned through my first test on AG CLI in ~5 minutes and haven't gone back yet

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@olsenbdnr You only spent 30 minutes on a technical interview?

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@pmarca Easily one of the best SF authors of all time