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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 30/09/2026

Não ironicamente, único protagonista shonen cujo sonho era ser prefeito.

Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 28/09/2026

In other words, it removes professionalism and scientific method from work by making the process and output non-deterministic. GenAI has no reproducibility.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 22/09/2026

Thank you for your time and clarification.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 22/09/2026

If I may ask, how does this differ from what can be achieved using compute shaders to generate new geometry on the fly? Genuine question from someone trying to figure out graphics programming over the past months.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 22/09/2026

But they spend a lot of energy and water whereas artists only need some crackers and coffee to produce the same piece. Training artists is much less expensive, whereas training models costs millions and that's with the theft. If they were to pay royalties the figures would be even worse for them.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 22/09/2026

Also the shareholders as the bubble and debt gets bigger and bigger: "I think You own me my return on investment"

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 11/09/2026

Tem tanto bot postando texto slop todo cagado na internet q estou até apreciando textos com erros artesanais (humanos) como o seu. Sem ironia.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 10/09/2026

The face animations for Link could use some rework as well, sometimes the eyes don't show the same expression the mouth is showing, but yes, I'm sure it is awesome work in general, in a scope that is hard to replicate with the same quality.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Alt text (perdão pela omissão, pensei q adicionava sozinho do serviço terceirizado do gif): um casal de Minimoys se beijando, seres pequenos que parecem elfos.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Tbm tava achando o link meio estranho, daí acho q é pq ficou um pouco parecido com um minimoy, mas provavelmente não tão bem executado como um minimoy, pq no caso do link ele parece q tá perdido no vale da estranheza sem saber se é low-poly ou foto realista, tal qual um cartoon com DLSS5

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Arthur Selenia

ALT: Arthur Selenia

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Mesmo não sendo, ficou parecendo IA demais, pois tal qual os modelos de IA os designers do game parecem odiar espaço negativo nas texturas. Tudo muito "denso"sem muito equilíbrio/composição em vários casos (ou ao menos desequilíbrio intencional).

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Don't know if there's more context to that poster, but this looks like Fallout type of humor.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Kenney always making us indies proud. Go buy his asset packs if you can. It is a great investment both for you and indirectly for people who benefit from his free assets.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Como vc disse, "para segurar as pontas". O q significa em outras palavras que deixaram de contratar concept artists, estou enganado? Pois é. Para mim não é justificativa.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Não podemos apontar o dedo na cara dos artistas q trabalharam no jogo (eles podem ter assinado ndas), mas a liderança/representantes do projeto garantiram q n usaram GenAI e só depois voltaram atrás dizendo que usaram. No mínimo, faltou transparência.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 08/09/2026

Usaram IA na produção de Clair Obscure 😔

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 08/09/2026

* "observo em AI slop" contra minha vontade. Já q não uso genAI e não acho q seja uma ferramenta apropriada para desenvolver software, criar arte ou qlq outro tipo de atividade minimamente importante.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 08/09/2026

Não sou designer, mas pelo pouco q sei da área e observo em AI slop acho q é pq IA costuma abusar da escassez de espaço negativo, tudo excessivamente "denso", sem espaço negativo para dar contraste e ajudar na composição. Os olhos ficam sem uma região onde possam descansar.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 07/09/2026

Don't use GenAI as well for anything. It doesn't belong in development/art/writing. As an open-source maintainer, I like my work to have reproducible steps and my userbase to know the projects are managed by someone who cares for the process. That is to me a scientific/professional/caring approach.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 26/08/2026

Great passion and talent + #NoAI: what could possibly be better? The trailer is awesome as well, do not miss it!

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 22/08/2026

I like that it didn't hesitate to answer. It is almost as though it would say next: "Haven't we all? You trying to trip me? Thought I'd hesitate to admit? You must think you're pretty clever, huh? Think everyone has issues with that?"

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

Fair enough. I'm a big pygame-ce and Panda3D fan, but above all else I think people should use what work best for them and also understand the appeal of a full-fledged engine. Godot, specially, is a great tool with a great community. Sometimes I visit their docs to research or study features/design.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

But I'll stop here since I'm preaching to the choir.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

A bug that crashes an app can be swatted. But a bug that secretly cripples it can stay hidden for a long time and even when we notice it, it may also take some time to find it. That's the kind of output you can get from genAI. All that plus the plagiarism+harm to environment.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

Conceptually, I'm not against genAI, because automations, IF they work, are good things per se. But genAI isn't good for most relevant programming tasks. It is actually even worse than a failure:

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

More precisely, if I were to use it, I'd have to manually inspect and test the whole output to ensure it not only worked as expected but also didn't introduce bloat nor other seemingly harmless, needless interfaces that could become a liability in the future.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

Perhaps I could ask a genAI model to rewrite it, it probably would yield better results than asking the model to write it from the ground up, but again, it is code that I wrote carefully, refactored for good design and efficiency. As I said, I don't recommend genAI for any kind of programming.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

I do learn new langs and their paradigms once each couple of years, some I keep using, some not (but am glad for the lessons learned), but even though I've been using Python seriously only for a decade, it would still take years to rewrite everything back into another language.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

Writing scripts in a new lang takes a few days or a couple of weeks. Picking up design patterns and idiomatic expressions for that lang comes naturally over the first months. But a robust codebase takes years to build.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

Everyone in the Python ecosystem should learn those tools, even if not for making games, because they are also awesome tools for prototyping and visualizing ideas.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

Are you THAT thaumaturge? The one from the tutorials and forum? Regardless, it is great running into another Panda3D dev in the wild! I use pygame-ce for my 2D stuff and intend to use Panda3D for my future 3D projects (already made a few fixture/prototypes).

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

But, yes, it is not for everyone. Even so, I just feel that the number of people doing that should increase, even if just a little. Everyone wanting to make games but no one wanting to tend to the tools is a recipe for getting overly dependent on third-party tools.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

But if we are talking about one or two projects at most, then perhaps it may be feasible. E g., nowadays I'm not so eager to make my own tools, but I at least have a couple of main tools that I've been maintaining for years while still having time to progress on my game projects.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

I get it. I used to make my own tools a lot more often, but as you said, a lot of time goes into the replicated effort thing. One also has to maintain it. In-house tools are big time sinks and it is not unusual to have to implement something new after months/years without touching it.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/08/2026

Not saying Godot will ever enshittify, but nowadays you never know. Who knows if new leadership will come tomorrow that will turn things upside down? I guess I'm just trying to say that while we have no choice but to rely on 3rd-party tools, we should at least try to lessen our dependency on them.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/08/2026

For instance, if I were to use Godot (which is a great project, certainly among the best stuff we have currently available), I'd use it with a mainstream lang like C++ or C#. Imagine having 10 years of accumulated GDScript codebase and suddenly having to switch engine.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/08/2026

Yes. I'm actually more of a multimedia library guy (pygame-ce/SDL, Panda3D). I'm just saying that we should strive to make code and stuff that's not entirely dependent on a single tool. For instance, much of my codebase can be reused across different libs/engines.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/08/2026

No, not all of us should make engines. As I said, small scale stuff that can be done. For instance, I'm not particularly smart, but managed to make a generalist Python node editor (Nodezator). People or small teams can make focused reliable tools.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/08/2026

In that sense, free and open-source software is more important than ever. It at least give us options, even if it takes years to get where we need. E.g.: Had I not adopted linux 10 years ago, I'd be suffering from the effects of this wave of bloated software, telemetry and slop even more.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/08/2026

I don't have a solution either. Only thing I'll say is that if we have to learn something from all of this, it is that, as best as we can, we must roll our sleeves up and create our own solutions, even if in way smaller scale.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/08/2026

Yep. 3D design tools are very complex systems that take a lot of time to build and require a lot of different high-level skills and knowledge. It is no wonder we relied on the few available to us for so long instead of spinning alternatives.

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