Blake Robbins

hanging out on the edges of the internet @hiddencap

co-host @gamecraftpod
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[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

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[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@OdyLUNCHBOY 🤫

https://t.co/sP8AYx1PKN

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

there’s something wildly addictive about gambling tokens on prompts to make a game.

it’s like a single-player game where the game is making the game.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

sports are becoming the reels on a giant slot machine

[Muhammad @zulali]

Claude reverse engineered my 32-year-old Jeep. Then it started controlling it.

Edited with Fable 5.2

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@trq212 yeahhh, I think a Midjourney type feed could work quite well.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@RiotIksar This is the worst it will ever be, and ~2 hours after the launch of a new model.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

uh.... gg

[Kevin Ngo @kevin_t_ngo]

Claude Fable 5.2 made this game demo, playable in the browser

Gilt & Gutter is a 1v1 first-person shooter with two playable characters

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@Nadeshot See things like: 82-0, 2mindrills, etc.

It's coming.

I know you said to exclude Roblox, but I think the missing link in AI game development will always be distribution + social. Which Roblox has solved.

https://t.co/mdmUl2GCUg

[a16z @a16z]

AI game development is exploding on Roblox:

- An growing share of top games were launched in the last 90 days
- Roblox MCP daily users are exploding
- An increasing fraction of game development time is spent using AI
- Asset uploads are shooting up

In other words, people are using AI to make games, and other people are actually playing them.

More charts: https://t.co/Z2QvvaZENZ

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@BryanOffutt @iamgrootxo facts. they know ball. can't believe EA is just sitting on this IP.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

The new Ocarina of Time was ported to PC and iPhone almost overnight using AI.

GTA 6 is supposed to be console-only at launch, with a PC version months away.

I’d be shocked if someone doesn’t have it running on PC within 24 hours.

Hard to see how hardware exclusivity survives AI.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

37 episodes in and we finally had our first guest!

Bing Gordon (@bingfish), EA co-founder and legendary games investor.

A real treat to hear Mitch & Bing draw on decades of shared history to unpack the games business, gamification, and where the industry is headed.

[Gamecraft Podcast @gamecraftpod]

The legendary Bing Gordon (@bingfish) joined us for a special bonus episode on the games business, gamification, AI, and his new book: Everybody Wins.

Few people have shaped the games industry as profoundly as Bing.

This wide-ranging conversation was a special one.

[Anker @ankerbachryhl]

Today’s ticketing systems weren’t built for agents.

Over the past 3 months, we’ve been building a new product at Parahelp to solve this: Infrastructure purpose-built for your agents (like Claude, Grok Bot, or one built in-house) and team to resolve support tickets together.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@charlieholtz @natfriedman @alexandr_wang congrats! legendary team and product!

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

Random thoughts:
- i want to meet the person who was undecided until their 47th unsolicited political text.
- whoever invented daylight saving time definitely didn’t have toddlers.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
https://t.co/JIhXN7OSh1

- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊

A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.

Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@NadavKeyson let’s gooooo

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

@grant__gregory legend

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

the future of ecommerce looks increasingly like a slot machine

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

https://t.co/QQFxp5VPw0

[KreekCraft @KreekCraft]

So they got PlayStation games on Roblox now.

credit: @SirDapper

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

the future of games (and software) is going to be a lot more weird than any of us could ever imagine

[bubblx @bnbblx]

Counter-Strike fully ported into Roblox...😳

#roblox