Israel just carried out another horrific massacre in South Lebanon.
Dropping massive bombs near Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre — wiping out 3 apartment blocks full of civilians.
People are still buried under the rubble.
This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).
It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.
The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.
We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.
It's been 3 months since the 100x vibers started 100x vibin'! So, post your 25-years-of-work-equivalent project here, so we can signal boost and everyone can celebrate the Life's Work that you did in 3 months. Looking forward to it, Let's Go!!!
🎉 PRAGMATA has sold over 2 million copies worldwide! 🎉
Thank you to everyone for your support!
Here's a special drawing from Diana to celebrate!✨
#PRAGMATA
Dash is often seen as just a scatter tool for UE5. That is only scratching the surface.
Dash is a full environment toolkit. Scatter is just one piece. You also get materials, atmosphere, procedural meshes, physics, asset management, and workflow tools built to speed everything up.
This scene was a quick setup to show the snow system that comes built into every Dash-supported asset library.
do you understand what happened to PlayStation yesterday..
They quietly turned your game purchases into a 30-day subscription.
No announcement.. No warning..
You didn't rent it.. You BOUGHT it.
→ Every new PSN purchase now has a 30-day validation timer
→ Timer hits zero = game locked
→ CMOS battery dies = game locked
→ No internet for a month = game locked
→ Even FREE demos have the timer now
Game bought March 2nd? No timer. Works forever..
Game bought April 24th? Expires May 24th..
They didn't patch a bug. They shipped this on purpose.
Digital ownership just died. They didn't even tell you.
Interesting that you're concerned about other countries stealing American AI, but don't seem to care about American AI stealing from the American people.
Setting up RVT texture blending in @UnrealEngine can get complicated fast. So we made it simple.
Dash includes an easy blending workflow that works across all supported libraries, including Megascans. A few clicks and you are ready to tweak and customize.
where i'm at on LLMs:
1. LLMs are NOT going to outmode software engineers, not now, not ever
2. LLMs alone are a dead end for attaining anything like AGI
3. forget about LLMs achieving ASI
4. LLMs will only make good engineers faster, marginally
5. LLMs will remain poor at architecture and design
this is 100% because LLMs cannot reason
and no, generating a bunch of hidden context is not "reasoning"
as always, when the same people are making claims like this, have a look at what they stand to gain
and to them, i warn directly: you are going to fall. hard