G. Casqueiro

Father | Learning to code | Digital & Analog Designer | Comics & Sci-Fi Geek | Music & Film Junkie | 80’s & 90’s Aficionado.

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

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[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

Watched the whole clip, the fall is really bad 🤣🤣. They didn't finish post-production on that scene. There's no excuse. Even with some AI "low skills," it would take a couple of minutes to fix that.
As usual, for anything Disney/Marvel/Star Wars, I'll wait until all the episodes are released to see if it's worth my time.

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

This! ⬇️

[David Ferreira @daminufe]

@WhatsApp I have a feature request:
Please add a toggle to not accept audio messages

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

So what will be dead next week?

First it was developers. Followed by writers, architects, and then designers.

This week it's open-source.

Spoiler: the things that keep dying are the ones that give you the most control over your own work.

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

@robertrioux @andrewpprice https://t.co/EtR36mAfqu

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

I don't usually put myself in the middle of these things, but Blender was part of my life for almost 15 years.

What happened the past week bothered me enough to write about it. People like @robertrioux and @andrewpprice , who gave so much to this community, deserved better.

[Blender Bob 🔶 @robertrioux]

Wow! The last 3 days have been insane! 247k views for 3 posts, and that's not including all the responses. My notification page is going crazy. I can't follow all the conversations anymore. I got more than 20 while writing this post!

I would like to address something that I keep repeating in my comments. Many said I'm just lazy, I should 'just' learn programming. Education would be good for me. I should do the CG myself instead of using AI, I'm not a real artist, I have no talent. Obviously, those of you who know me know better. But many new faces here.

So here we go. I've studied graphic design, professional photography, directing, producing and screenwriting. I am presently doing a bachelor degree in game development, and I'm 56. I start working every day at about 7:30 and finish late at night. On top of that I do freelance jobs because I need money. I'm anything but lazy. I just know where to put my energy.

I've been working as a CG artists since 1995. I've worked on over 70 movies, many TV series, commercials and videoclips. I won a few awards during my career.

I will certainly NOT learn advanced math and programming because I need an addon once in a while. Making addons are not my job. I make them to fill a gap, do something that Blender can't or doesn't do properly. I do them using AI because I have no other options. By the way, with the hundreds of comments I got, not a single one of you proposed to make my addons, so I wouldn't have to use AI.

Some people don't seem to understand the difference between generative ai for images and video and coding. I did experiment with image and video generations. I'm well aware of the possibilities and how it can and will affect the VFX industry. It will kill many jobs. What required weeks or months can now be done with a prompt. That's one of the reasons I'm switching to gaming while there's still manual jobs to be done. But it will hurt that industry too. I know very well that it can't be stopped too.

When Midjourney came out, I have to admit I found it very exciting. It's such a powerful tool. And now seadance and nano banana... Then my daughter wanted to study illustration and I had to tell her that she should find another field of study as this field will slowly die because of AI. AI killed her dream job before she even started it. I'm against using generative AI in general but I don't have an issue with me, personally, using Claude to make my addons as it will NOT AFFECT anyone's job. I can't afford to hire devs to make them. And I give them all for free to the community. I'm against generative music too. But coding is not based on stolen art. You can't say write a code in the style of this programmer. I have no issues using generative AI to create zDepth passes or other technical fields that can't be done by humans.

About the environmental impact of AI, it's huge. My 45 addons didn't make a scratch compared to the 5 BILLION facebook users who spend most of their time flipping cat videos. What do you think Google, YouTube, X, Instagram and all the other do for the environment? Yet some people scream at me because I'm using Claude once in a while.

Finally, about job loss, I was there when the industry switched from 2D animation to 3D. Thousands of 2D artists lost their jobs. We, CG people, where hated of stealing their jobs. We were not real artists as the computer would to the animation. We, CG people, are responsible for the loss of thousands of jobs. Maybe you are too young to realize that. 2D artists had to either adapt to the new reality, learn 3D or change field of work. Think about it.

Another comment that came often: You didn't create anything. Claude did. If you punch a hole in a wall, the hammer did the hole, not you. Well, no. I made the hole using a tool. You can't personalize a tool. Nobody will say: which hammer did a hole in the wall? Your honor, I didn't kill that person. The bullet did. Claude doesn't create addons by itself. It starts with an idea and you need to guide Claude to do it. It's not like you just write one prompt and you are done. Some of my addons took me weeks for fighting with Claude or ChatGPT.

I'm a CG artist. I do my modeling, I do my textures, I do my VFX. Claude just help be being more efficient.

And that's all I have to say about that.

[Blender Bob 🔶 @robertrioux]

I gave the Blender community more than 45 addons, all created by ChatGPT at the beginning but now by Claude. I never hid that fact. When I develop one, it's to fill a gap that Blender has. Now, with that whole Ai crap happening in the Blender world, some people want to boycott my addons. Go for it. See if I care. It's not like I'm going to lose money. They're all free! Your loss. Now go on my YT page and read the comments of the thousands of people who thanked me because they really appreciate them. Now consider that only about 1-3% will actually comment or "like" even if they really enjoy it.

Some of my extensions are very simple, like the Object Display, all the way to the hyper complex Render Manager or light editor.

Now, I mentioned that my addons are coded by AI because I'm not a developer and at 56 I'm certainly not going to become one. I'm also not going to hire a developper to make my free addons. You could sell them! No, that's my contribution to the community.

That being said, are you going to ask all the addon developper if they used AI so you can boycott them? If you badly need the addon, are you going to then program it yourself?

By the way? What is YOUR contribution to the community? How much have you donated? I'm sure some of you did but 99% will just enjoy that wonderful FREE software.

#b3d

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

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[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

A couple of weeks ago I started building an RSS reader because why the hell not?

Every other reader I've tried has let me down eventually, so I might as well try to build my own.

Although I'm not an experienced coder, the hard part wasn't the code, it was trying to name the damn thing.

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Ghost @Ghost]

We believe culture and media shouldn’t be controlled by any centralized tech platform or venture-backed corporation.

As we continue to build open infrastructure for the future of publishing, Ghost is now recognized as a Digital Public Good 🪷

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[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

The comments are priceless! 🤣

One of the things I don’t miss at all from when I was in archviz and 100% on Blender, is dealing with this kind of tribal behavior.

They don’t even make an effort to try to understand what something means, they see “AI” and automatically lose their minds 🙃

[Blender 🔶 @Blender]

Welcome @anthropicai as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at https://t.co/oiQeATUVW3 #b3d #DevFund

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude now connects to the tools creative professionals already use.

With the new Blender connector, you can debug a scene, build new tools, or batch-apply changes across every object, directly from Claude.

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

STOP using Google!

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.

The scope is staggering:
🔴 Every query you type
🔴 Every voice and photo search
🔴 Every autocomplete you accept
🔴 Your language, your device
🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered
🔴 Every click and scroll
🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions

Meaning the European Union now knows your:
🔴 Health symptoms
🔴 Pregnancy
🔴 Sexual orientation
🔴 Political views
🔴 Religious beliefs
🔴 Financial distress
🔴 Legal trouble
🔴 Addictions
🔴 Affairs

Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.

The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union.

Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that.

Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history.

Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given.

Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage.

Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state.

In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it.

The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026.

After that, the door does not close again.

Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!

[John O'Nolan @JohnONolan]

Every time Substack make a move that serves the business, they disingenously play it off as something that's in the best interest of users.

> [Email is getting less reliable, so we had to build an app.]

"I know I've said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business!"

Sure. And there's also the economics. One of the largest overheads for any newsletter platform is email delivery — it's expensive, and it scales linearly with subscribers. Delivering the same content by API to an app you own is essentially free, and keeps users inside your ecosystem.

The app isn't some reluctant response to problematic technology, it's just a better business. That would be perfectly fine to say out loud.

Instead it's "email is unreliable, actually" - a pretty stark reversal of how they used to talk about email.

Substack CEO in 2018:
"[Email is] the one channel that you have as an independent writer to reach a reader base that’s not directly mediated by a third party. It doesn’t have a Facebook algorithm deciding what people are going to see."

In 2026: email is bad, and the answer is the Substack app, mediated by the Substack algorithm deciding what people are going to see.

Yes, email is more complicated than it used to be, but there are thousands of newsletter platforms out there, and only one of them is insisting that the only solution to reliable distribution is using their branded app.

> [Nobody feels locked into Substack.]

"I saw several wags speculate that this was because we were trying to achieve 'lock in' at the behest of our investors. Brother, if you've ever heard of someone who feels locked-in to Substack because of their follow graph, please tell me."

The lock-in is not the follow graph. That's a complete strawman.

People feel locked in because mobile paid subscriptions are literally locked in.

Subscriptions started on the web sit in the writer's own Stripe account — portable, owned, migratable. Subscriptions started inside the Substack app are permanently stuck on Substack. Which, ofc, is conveniently "[just how mobile works, Apple make us do it]" - but publishers don't even have an option to disable paid subscriptions through the Substack app, they are forced into using it.

We migrate people off Substack to @Ghost every week. One of the top complaints is "I need to get out before any more of my revenue gets locked into the Substack app."

Substack is a venture-backed platform optimising for retention, unit economics, and platform dependency. That is a perfectly normal thing for a venture-backed platform to do.

Just say what you're actually doing and stop trying to dress it up as something else.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.

The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.

Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

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[G. Casqueiro @gcasqueirocom]

This past week, the tools I rely on for client work at the agency went quiet at the worst possible moments.

Webflow went down mid-review, and Claude was unreachable during SEO work.

Then Vercel sent a security notice, but fortunately I'm only using it right now for small personal experiments.

[Luis Batalha @luismbat]

If you’re applying to Y Combinator’s Summer batch and need help with the application feel free to DM me.

For any startups in Portugal, I’m also happy to meet in person in the next 2 weeks 🇵🇹