Simone

A bit of this and a bit of that @spinashware. I use Neovim btw, very badly btw.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

When your government tells you; "we're all in the same boat!"

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

Just want to make sure people understand what they are arguing, because I've seen this argument come up, and it is not fact-based. The AI tools most commonly used today were not trained exclusively on publicly available and/or purchased books, films, and games. It was trained on literally pirated works. Multiple major AI providers have admitted to this in court already.

And it is not as if modern AIs were trained on one or two pirated things, but potentially millions of them. We do not currently know exactly how many, because the furthest-along case (Anthropic) settled out-of-court for a billion-dollar settlement.

So just to be clear, the argument being made in the quote below - while an argument we could (and perhaps should) have in the future - is not one we need to have right now, because it is irrelevant to the current facts. We can confine ourselves today to arguing about literal piracy - the analogy is if artists usually learned to draw by going to the bookstore, stealing all the books there without paying for them, and bringing them home to keep.

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

For people using AI in commercial game development: I'd be interested in hearing the best arguments as to why you think people should pay for the resulting game instead of pirating it.

Concisely, if you pirated the inputs, why shouldn't they pirate the output?

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

@GergelyOrosz Both can be (and thus should be expected to be) true for all non-local LLMs, which frankly is enough to disqualify them as a critical development tool altogether (never mind the many other issues with relying on them too heavily for serious work)

[Simone @sim1spin]

@codevsdev Back then we had these things called 'books'

[Haider. @haider1]

anthropic "mythos" marketing strategy:

opus 4.6 was great, but

> release 4.7, which gives nothing, and burns 10x more tokens

> release 4.8, basically 4.7 with fixed tokens, while 4.6 gets nerfed, so 4.8 wouldn't look bad next to it

> now release Mythos, basically pre-nerf 4.6, slightly better, but burns 5x more tokens

and everyone claps

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Same prompt

[Timeproof Games @timeproofgames]

Taito Cup Finals / Hat Trick Hero '93 (Arcade, Taito, 1992)

[Shub @shub0414]

Do you guys agree?
Sad bt its the reality…

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

most non-C++ developers are just users playing inside a C++ dev’s program.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Kritika @kritikakodes]

The harsh truth

[Valentin Ignatev @valigo]

"I use loops", said Linux Kernel creator Linus Torvalds, when asked about new trends.

"You can't write programs without loops", he added.

[Simone @sim1spin]

@alightinastorm dude...

Why are you doing this to yourself?

Learn to code and download some free assets... you can do so much better in 66 hours....

[le sociologue grincheux @OhHowByronic]

Spot on.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

There is no demand for huge quantities of slop. More commits / LOC / PRs does not equate to more valuable productivity. Users want fewer, but better, programs.

[Simone @sim1spin]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay can you also send some RAM? :)

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries.

The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath:

This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR.

The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors.

The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now.

But the real story is how this happened...

On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France.

Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government.

Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building.

It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today.

Then Trump accelerated the divorce.

January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage.

The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset.

Europe heard every word of it.

On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state.

And the response came fast:

April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history.
Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux.

Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law.

- Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance
- SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure
- McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030

None of that money is going to Silicon Valley.

The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it.

Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law.

And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...

[Simone @sim1spin]

@om_patel5 delete your account

[Simone @sim1spin]

@surface can I install Linux on it? Or just Microsoft OSs?