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building ai games at

[david @_davidme]

how this weekend feels without fable 5

[doug funnie @cryptoklotz]

-be me
-go to new dentist, since my old one retired
-new dentist: "you have three cavities"
-feel bad vibe, go get a second opinion
-"woooah - buddy, you have zero cavities. thank god you came to us. let's just do a cleaning"
-send wife to this savior second dentist
-"you have six cavities"
-wife bails on getting them filled, goes to a different dentist a year later
-"woooah gurl, you have zero cavities. thank god you didn't get them filled"

why is dentistry like this 😭

[david @_davidme]

@thsottiaux If you paste certain text into codex app it will completely brick the codex app and make it freeze and become unusable: https://t.co/Wx1C0Bmr8T please fix.

Seems to be something to do with JSON formatting.

[andrew engler @aerockrose]

Jensen Huang reveals the operating rule behind NVIDIA's speed:

"I don't like going into a problem and somebody says, 'It takes 74 days to do this today, and we can do it for you in 72 days.'

I'd rather strip it all back to zero and say, 'Explain to me why 74 days in the first place.'

Oftentimes, you'd be surprised. It might come to six days."

That is the difference between improving a process and interrogating the constraint.

After building $300M+ businesses, this is the part I have seen repeatedly: elite operators do not just ask for a better version of the current system. They ask whether the system should exist in its current form at all.

[david @_davidme]

getting close to launching a new platform for AI games centred around creators and creativity, here's a post about how it's different and the lessons learned from building an AI game platform like friends & fables

https://t.co/Ouevppj0Ix

[will @consolelogwill]

I think we're about to ship one of the most interesting ways to use AI...

https://t.co/eDGSOZg2ZE

[david @_davidme]

@itsnoahd Appreciate the work on this. How come railway metal instances are also down if this is a GCP issue? Can railway metal be restored in the meantime?

[david @_davidme]

@thsottiaux give me named worktrees like conductor and an easy way to have multiple codex chats in a worktree.

also ability to /clear a codex chat

[Alvin Sng @alvinsng]

My old coworker (now at Anthropic) asked if I miss the old way of coding.

I told him it’s like calculators in math class.

Before 4th grade, I couldn’t use one. I was proud of memorizing multiplication tables and doing long division quickly. Then calculators showed up, and those skills were suddenly obsolete.

But the point of calculators was never to replace math. It was to let you solve harder problems, like algebra and geometry, without getting stalled doing everything by hand. Soon enough, I adapted too. I got good at solving more complex problems and applying calculators to chemistry and physics as well. Of course, I quickly forgot how to do most math without a calculator, but that was OK.

Coding feels the same in 2026. I used to be the person who could root-cause incidents quickly, build resilient systems that lasted for years, and write elegant code that was easy to read. It felt like being a blacksmith showing years of craft. Now, all of that feels useless because agents can do it too.

Even though my old skills are less useful, that experience still set the foundation for my work today. Just like with calculators, I’ve learned to retool quickly, and my other skills are now more pronounced. My short stint in PM at Brex helped me build strong product judgment, my tech lead experience at Airbnb is now useful for orchestrating agents, and my years of knowing what causes bad code led to the creation of dozens of open-source lint rules.

We both came from those good old days, skilled and passionate about the craft. It didn’t disappear; it just moved up a layer.

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

It’s 2018 and your coworker just sent you a 400 line pull request.

You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.

It’s beautiful. Elegant micro-refactors. Crispy method names.

You catch a few things, but that’s ok. It’s part of the dance. They didn’t consider extensibility on part of their API. Here’s a comment buddy.

They respond in an hour saying they think we should do one piece differently than your comment. Hey let’s jump into a room and figure it out. We can’t just agree to disagree, this code is too important.

The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of ownership and accomplishment.

That night you go to sleep and dream of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids, your IDE syntax highlighting sparking neurons in your reptile brain.

You go to work the next day ready to go. You understand the system. N is your foundation. Time to build n+1.

[david @_davidme]

@RhysSullivan i'm sure it's great but effect looks ugly and can be hard to follow

[david @_davidme]

@TheChaosWeeber iconic cactus club

[david @_davidme]

postgres is all you need

[david @_davidme]

@araghougassian burnaby represent

[david @_davidme]

@thdxr yeah deploying sharp is awful, this is great add to bun

[david @_davidme]

@leonbi100 give us a 4.4 fast

[david @_davidme]

@sama it’s a good model sir

[left curve dev @leftcurvedev_]

you’re still running an american model?

taste this

[david @_davidme]

@almmaasoglu yeah 5.4 kinda sucked, 5.5 is actually good and better than opus on backend tasks

[david @_davidme]

@veggie_eric grok voice cloning when