Ivan Nedelkovski

Trying to predict where 🤖 AI Agents and the 📈 Stock Market will be in 5 years.

[Ivan Nedelkovski @iv401]

@Jamaromd1 @MichaelWalstedt @thesamparr And you think Ant is going to be worth less than its IPO 5-10 years from now?

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

This is Genie 4, our most realistic and interactive world model yet. 🌐

Explore dynamic environments in real time to see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.

[Ivan Nedelkovski @iv401]

POV: your average redditor having their 3rd daily meltdown.

[Udi Wertheimer @udiWertheimer]

she’s so tired of generative ai

[Ivan Nedelkovski @iv401]

Reddit is a haven for backward-thinking lazy commies.

A great litmus test for whether you pack critical thinking is agreeing with their takes.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

The r/OpenSource subreddit has officially banned anything using AI. In any way. Violators will be permanently banned.

Which means… r/OpenSource will ban anyone submitting anything that, in any way, involves… the Linux kernel.

https://t.co/cxqm0yHlFT

[Ivan Nedelkovski @iv401]

Completely wrong take by your average Airbnb host.

Do long-term rentals if you don't want to be involved with managing your property - the issue is they want to be making the $200/night and still not lift a finger.

Almost every host is like this.

[Alex Goldring @SoftEngineer]

AI in video games are a confusing topic to me.

@TimSweeneyEpic recently got a lot of flak for pushing AI in game development.

There are opinion pieces left and right condemning AI use in game development.

Here I am, having worked for ~6 months on a game I released on Steam last week. And my sin, apparently, was using AI and disclosing it.

The comment section was pretty clear on that.

It's confusing to me. AI is a tool. IDE is a tool. A programming language is a tool. A graphics API is a tool. We're just using tools.

I've been writing software for about 3 decades now, I'd like to think that I know what I'm doing and am pretty good at it. I see AI as an incredible productivity booster.

It does some things that I pride myself on being good at, such as teasing out a math formula or optimizing an algorithm better than me most of the time (with a lot of handholding, granted), but for the most part it makes things I find tedious - fast.

As I software engineer, and a game maker, I take relatively little pride in knowing a programming language, or remembering 100 shortcuts in an IDE, or knowing a programming language spec by heart.

I remember the first time I needed to make an animated 3d model, almost 15 years ago now, and it took me about a week of full-time effort to get anywhere. I didn't feel particularly proud, I felt frustrated, I had a clear idea, but the tool and its complexity were getting in the way. Well, the tools are better now. Blender is better, animation tools are better, and there are AI models that keep improving at an incredible pace.

Ultimately, when I write a piece of software, or work on a game - I rarely think about the tools, they are a means to an end, not the point in itself.

[Anant Jain @anantjain]

If AI had been writing and reviewing its own code for the past few decades, and humans had only recently started looking into what it was up to and discovered an ever-growing list of CVEs, we would reasonably conclude that AI hadn’t been good at coding all along and that we should just start over.

Except it’s the other way around.

Humans have been the ones writing and reviewing each other’s code for decades. Very diligently, if I may add.

If we’re being intellectually honest and holding ourselves to the same bar we hold AI to, we’d have to admit that we haven’t been all that good at it either.

[Ivan Nedelkovski @iv401]

Apparently the guy behind Fortnite is turbo-based.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

@mattworkman Forcing developers to write a political statement to be used against them by the hate mob they’re helping organize is abhorrent.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

@mattworkman Forcing developers to write a political statement to be used against them by the hate mob they’re helping organize is abhorrent.

[Ivan Nedelkovski @iv401]

@grupchev @abhishekgawade_ @calcom @peer_rich Huh, interesting

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

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[Voice of Reason @brexitblog_info]

8 years ago, in this brilliant interview, Hungary’s Foreign Minister refused to be bullied by Emily Maitlis on immigration.

He’s been totally vindicated.

[Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom]

We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

@KenneyNL This is bullshit, Kenney. I’m the same tech tree following optimist who moved from C to C++, from 2D to 3D, and from closed source to open source. I run a company. I write code. I contribute to published papers. I’ve upped my expectations of AI. Up yours!

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

When I was writing Unreal Engine 1, my time was divided as follows:

- Around 30% went to seriously deep coding on hard problems: assembly language texture mappers, C++ BSP trees, data persistence, object oriented systems design, and networking.

- Around 70% was just typing and refactoring large bodies of code needed for a complete engine feature set. This was not hard, and while I was doing it my mind was mostly on the deeper coding topics, thinking and planning for what's next. It didn't feel much different from vibe coding today, except that it was just me typing code on an IBM Model M keyboard rather than prompting it and reviewing the results.

So, it has always seemed perfectly logical that we would rely on AI for that 70%, once the AI could do it with a similar quality standard as we could, which has never been perfection. It came as no surprise that, after a few years of AI model evolution, it was able to take the reigns on that 70% and free up programmers' time for more valuable tasks.

What's more of a surprise is the emergence of AI as a sort of insta-Carmack able to solve hard technical problems quite cleverly and often cleanly, and that it's able to reason about and work in complex 3D scenes both by operating the tools and by directly understanding the raw data files.

I abandoned assembly language in 1998 when out-of-order CPUs made much simpler C/C++ code faster, and never I missed it. If prompting through architectural documents, concept art, and design plans can transcend typing code and tweaking vertices, that will enable developers to spend their time on higher-level, higher value technical and creative tasks.

What matters is the end product, whether it's a game or an engine. Anything developers can do to try out more ideas and make better software and games faster is a win for everyone.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.

[Futur Lucide @FuturLucide]

Je vais dire quelque chose qui risque de déplaire à beaucoup de monde, mais tant pis.

Je crois qu’une partie de notre société est en train de perdre quelque chose de bien plus grave que sa compétitivité économique.

Elle est en train de perdre sa capacité à rêver.

Hier, Tesla a présenté une démonstration spectaculaire autour d’une voiture capable de quitter le sol. Un prototype, certes, pas encore la voiture volante de Retour vers le futur.

Mais quand même, bordel. On parle de technologies qui semblaient relever de la science-fiction quand nous étions gamins.

Et ce matin, en regardant certaines réactions françaises, qu’est-ce que je découvre ?

« Ça sert à rien. »
« Musk est un raciste. »
« Ça ne règle pas les problèmes de recharge. »
« Ça n’efface pas ses saluts nazis. »

Mais sérieusement, qu’est-ce qui nous est arrivé ?

À quel moment avons-nous perdu cette âme d’enfant qui nous faisait ouvrir grand les yeux devant une invention ?

Et le plus triste dans tout ça, c’est qu’on semble avoir oublié notre propre histoire.

La France, c’est le pays des frères Lumière, qui ont contribué à faire naître le cinéma.

C’est le pays de Louis Pasteur, dont les travaux ont révolutionné la microbiologie et la vaccination.

C’est le pays de Nicéphore Niépce, pionnier de la photographie.

C’est le pays des frères Montgolfier, qui ont envoyé l’être humain dans les airs à bord d’une montgolfière.

C’est le pays de Blaise Pascal, qui concevait déjà une machine à calculer au XVIIe siècle.

C’est aussi le pays du TGV, et l’un des deux pays qui ont donné naissance au Concorde.

Vous imaginez ce que représentaient ces inventions à leur époque ?

Des humains qui osaient accomplir ce que beaucoup pensaient impossible.

Des gens qui n’acceptaient pas les limites de leur temps.

Des visionnaires, des ingénieurs, des scientifiques, des entrepreneurs qui voulaient repousser les frontières du réel.

Nous avons été ce pays-là.

Alors comment avons-nous pu en arriver à un point où notre premier réflexe devant l’extraordinaire semble parfois être de chercher pourquoi il faudrait le mépriser ?

SpaceX récupère des fusées qui reviennent se poser sur Terre ? On parle immédiatement d’Elon Musk et de ses provocations.

Des robots humanoïdes commencent à réaliser des tâches physiques de plus en plus complexes ? « Ça va détruire des emplois. »

L’IA ouvre des perspectives gigantesques pour la médecine, la science, l’éducation et la création ? « Ça pollue, ça vole le travail des artistes, ça sert à tricher. »

Un entrepreneur annonce vouloir réaliser quelque chose d’incroyable ? « Encore un milliardaire qui veut s’en mettre plein les poches. »

Mais est-ce qu’on réalise seulement ce qui est en train de se passer ?

Nous vivons une époque où des fusées réutilisables se posent après leur mission, où l’IA accélère certaines découvertes scientifiques, où des robots apprennent à évoluer dans notre monde, où des personnes seules commencent à créer des choses qui nécessitaient auparavant des équipes entières.

Et devant tout ça, on serait devenus incapables de dire simplement : « Putain, c’est incroyable. Comment est-ce qu’ils ont réussi ça ? »

Je ne demande pas qu’on admire aveuglément les milliardaires. Ni qu’on ferme les yeux sur les conséquences sociales, environnementales ou politiques de leurs projets.

On peut condamner les propos d’Elon Musk tout en reconnaissant les prouesses des ingénieurs de SpaceX et de Tesla.

On peut défendre les travailleurs tout en trouvant la robotique fascinante.

On peut vouloir encadrer l’IA tout en étant émerveillé par ses possibilités.

L’esprit critique n’a jamais obligé personne à devenir cynique.

Et c’est justement ce cynisme qui me désespère.

J’ai parfois l’impression qu’on a remplacé l’admiration par la jalousie, le goût du risque par la peur de l’échec, l’ambition par la suspicion et le rêve par le sarcasme.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Andreessen on why he thinks Europe actually wants to be left behind on AI

"Europe seems, I just take them at their word, determined to be left behind. They seem enthusiastic about being left behind. They seem to really badly want that"

"25 years ago, if you did a list of the 50 biggest tech companies in the world, a pretty significant number were European, probably 15 of the top 50. Today you're basically down to Spotify. Which is great. I love Spotify"

"I think they would be very happy if AI didn't happen inside the EU. I think they'd be very happy if social media didn't exist. I think they'd be quite happy to shut up the internet"

[Ivan Nedelkovski @iv401]

The biggest risk facing America today

[Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ @Guigz75116]

En France, on a inventé le Concorde.

En 1969, il décollait et atteignait Mach 2 symbole de la grandeur gaullienne, conçu pour défier les Américains.

En 1972, le TGV 001 battait le record mondial à turbine (318 km/h).

En 1981, le TGV électrique reliait Paris à Lyon à 260 km/h. En 2007, il pulvérisait encore le record mondial sur rail : 574,8 km/h.

Dans les années 70, le plan Messmer lançait le plus grand programme nucléaire civil de l’Histoire : 58 réacteurs, jusqu’à 70-80 % de notre électricité, une indépendance énergétique que le monde entier nous enviait.

Dassault, Sud-Aviation, EDF, Framatome, la SNCF : nos ingénieurs étaient les meilleurs. On avait dix à vingt ans d’avance sur presque tout le monde.

Puis 1981, Mitterrand. Nationalisations massives (banques, acier, chimie, électronique, aéronautique). Semaine de 39 heures. Lois Auroux. Charges sociales qui explosent. Syndicats tout-puissants. Fiscalité punitive. Droit du travail rigidifié.

En moins de cinquante ans, le socialisme a transformé un pays d’ingénieurs conquérants en un pays de grèves, de délocalisations et de stagnation relative.

L’industrie est passée d’environ 28 % du PIB à 11 %.

Le Concorde a été abandonné. Notre nucléaire a été presque démantelé pendant des décennies faute de choix politique mortifère.

Ce n’est pas le destin, c’est le prix d’une idéologie qui a préféré redistribuer et réglementer plutôt que construire et innover.

A bon entendeur.