Divine Mechanic

Amateur creator. Catholic, counterculture.

Maintainer of lists of counterculture creators and useful tools for creation. Followbacks only on interaction.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

Hello. I am an amateur creator (digital art, from AI to Blender to Procreate to Substance, and more) with a focus on dissident thought, God, and culture.

I also am curating a list of broadly counterculture, non-porn creator accounts on X.

Please tag me if I missed one.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

SaaS companies in 2025: We've replaced our developers with AI! Vibe coding is the future! AI has made the 10x developer obsolete!

SaaS companies in 2026: Stop saying you can vibe code my service! You can't! AI just doesn't have the skill or expertise to do this right!

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@IndieLauraSDG Okay, but 90% of indies are also crap and everyone knows it. Not like people think the incredible volume of shovelware on Steam, technically indie, will do any "saving".

People just mean good games that everyone wants to play will be small team endeavors.

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@ArturSmiarowski @SandyofCthulhu I'm convinced that MMOs started to die when they made the decision that the majority of the players should see all of the content. It made every single game feel smaller and less alive.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

Once upon a time I did some writing for some minor gaming news site, and what I noticed from the English Majors:

Games were art, they were every bit as important to culture as music, great novels, on par with Citizen Kane, Beethoven and Moby Dick. At least, when it come to whether being a games journalist was prestigious.

When it came to inserting their politics into games or their journalism, games were toys, they were totally unimportant compared to anything else that really mattered.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Pirat_Nation Waiting for them to say that the price of groceries will also be affected. AI-induced inflation.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@owenbroadcast What if I wouldn't. What if I'm better than that, or have damage that precludes it. What if I dislike masses more than I like bread or circuses.

Maybe you won't find me in a 40 minute line for a free KFC meal ever.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@DAKKADAKKA1 Steam's one of the only companies where everyone agrees they're pretty much a monopoly, but most people are fine with it because it's been an asset and the guy running it is seems cool.

(Inb4 'I'm an indie dev and the Steam cut is destroying my take for my vibe coded nonsense')

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

I had resisted trying Claude Code because I was a cheapskate working through Cursor, and I didn't realize Claude Code only throttled you when you went over the limit, rather than charging you a fortune.

I am now just creating app after app I want using Claude Code. Projects that would have been a weekend just glide. Nothing too complicated right now, but it really is amazing.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Pirat_Nation In other news, the Cynthia Erivo Jordache ad campaign is making a big impact, with a majority of people now finding Jordache jeans "creepy and disturbing".

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@Grummz People act like AI invented slop.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Grummz Not just getting laid. It's also because they're afraid of screaming or tears. And if that doesn't shellshock them enough, the realization that a sobbing woman is trying to summon a (male) authority figure adds to the stress.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@kramps1066 @Grummz I'm not worried about gaming anyway, I picked up what I did because I do a lot of Blender / AI experimentation as a hobby. I walked away from AAA gaming long ago, and if this makes devs optimize, at least that's a plus.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Grummz Churches too.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Pirat_Nation Cool. Interesting. Bold.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Grummz Even if insect-based diets were incredibly healthy, cheap and could be made in a palatable way... we live in a world where most news is delivered by engagement farmers. And those people all pitched the thing in as off-putting a way as possible, even when they were positive.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

Some tech predictions for 2026:

* AI will continue to grow in utility, but larger companies will be hurt by it rather than gain from it, as the productivity increases AI offers will lessen the need for large, sprawling corporations to begin with. The exception will be for companies that own and use their own manufacturing hardware or other tangible assets.

* Social media will be so plagued by AI chat bots, engagement farming and spam that a multitude of alternatives to the most popular social media platforms will rise up. They will be far more fragmented, more heavily policed, and intentionally lacking in features that people now believe for granted (clickable links, posting emojis/images). "Building an audience" will undergo a transformation.

* Small businesses will proliferate and see enormous gains, and be able to outcompete larger companies more and more.

* Related to this, local models will get powerful enough that API usages will see a strange decline, as companies and businesses start to reason that it's more desirable to lean on local models that are "good enough" for all kinds of tasks, and much more easy to modify, rather than leaning on an API that is limited, censored, and dubiously private.

* AI Models will begin to be far more specialized, and running a swarm of models that can each handle particular tasks extremely well will become more advantages than large multimodal models.

* The most valuable skills that employers will seek out won't be any particular education or certification, but drive and adaptability. Except for the highest ends, expertise in general will be devalued as LLMs are seen as a suitable replacement for it. The question will be whether someone given a task can integrate AI and see through the task to the end rather than getting bored, frustrated, or giving up.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Alibaba_Qwen Yay~, thank you, Merry Christmas.

[Divine Mechanic @divinemechanic]

@Pirat_Nation AI usage is going to primarily favor small indie devs, and I welcome that insofar as they deliver quality and polished stuff. Otherwise this is just going to turn into an attempt at cultural gatekeeping on behalf of corporate and "Kotaku preferred" indies who use it too.