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keerthik @korc.me · 07/10/2026

...tho i'll still hate it upon sight

keerthik @korc.me · 07/10/2026

i also think intent is not binary. the depth of intent when an artist decides to publish slop approaches zero relative to the "apparent fidelity" in rare cases i won't begrudge someone for slopping a thing that *isn't* their art: a gamedev vibing their website HTML/CSS (but not the img/copy)

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keerthik @korc.me · 02/10/2026

linear regression doesn't refer to a single algorithm does it? i think "least squares" is the simplest/popular "scatter plot line-fitting" algorithm, and from cursory overview it might be very similar in shape to your dot-product-magnitudes, except perhaps referencing a mean rather than each other?

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keerthik @korc.me · 27/09/2026

oh certainly if optimizing polygons pulling vertices *is* an integral part of your hobby, then certainly no tool that circumvents that is a good tool. for me, as a programmer who enjoys the "concept art -> 3D model" as an amateur 3D artist but not the mesh optimization step for use in games, tho...

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keerthik @korc.me · 27/09/2026

it would have to be some other type of machine learning than LLMs -- genetic algorithms and their branches have been an area of study for these types of graph-node problems (circuit layouts) for a long time in practical spaces independent of LLMs, even if analytical algorithms are still WIP

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keerthik @korc.me · 27/09/2026

i would say a rare legitimate application of modern machine-learning tooling are some of the automated geometry solvers to reduce polycount for convex meshes without harming the final silhouette (preserves artist intent wholly). obviously best run before UV mapping

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keerthik @korc.me · 25/09/2026

the industry famously full of player-driven gunning down of arabic-speaking brown people in various definitely-not-israel middle eastern and south asian nations? do tell

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keerthik @korc.me · 22/09/2026

i too couldn't help myself iterate on yours

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keerthik @korc.me · 19/09/2026

just dynamic typing language things 😮‍💨

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keerthik @korc.me · 24/07/2026

bruh i can't believe how close to the wire i got with my RAM upgrade last year

faster CAS timings model i got for $189.99 in Sept 2025

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keerthik @korc.me · 12/07/2026

yeah, reasonable distinction - that's mostly what i do for any llm-code that ships to prod - i want to call it something like "robocop-coding" (being the cop to the robot) and the output like "engineering-manager-ware", but that's all a mouthful

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keerthik @korc.me · 12/07/2026

i vibe-code literally only to test the capabilities of a new model/harness. i spec-code for one-shot internal tools or scripts. i step-code almost everything else. since ~6 months ago, i have handcrafted basically nothing about ~3 months ago, step-code output surpassed my handcrafting level

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keerthik @korc.me · 12/07/2026

i think it's time to evolve the lingo around LLM-assisted coding. here's my framework: vibe-coding -> spec-coding -> step-coding -> handcrafted ...in order of how broad, imprecise, or minimal the human input is. the outputs, respectively, are slopware <- bugware <- vagueware <- software

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keerthik @korc.me · 12/06/2026

you do have to trade out intellisense for non-MS-sanctioned versions for each language you use, but it's good!

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keerthik @korc.me · 12/06/2026

i recently migrated my personal IDE of choice from VS Code to Codium. it has been extremely pleasant and highly recommend to stop being bothered to enable AI features, sign in, update *every damn day*, while still retaining 99% of your features by copy-pasting settings/keybindings.json

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keerthik @korc.me · 24/05/2026

and i was really trying to go for more of this

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keerthik @korc.me · 24/05/2026

got back after 2 weeks in barcelona. found out cleaners had thrown out tobi's reinforced cardboard box😾 inspired by gaudi to pursue dreams as a creative arCATect multiple face-scratching-points privacy if desired, face-cut-out for spying prime real estate, can see anywhere in the house

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keerthik @korc.me · 12/05/2026

please design all your UIs to be dark mode default light-mode-defaults have only two places: - e-reader native UI (more like "transparent-default") - use phone screen as a temu nightlight

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keerthik @korc.me · 08/05/2026

had a melancholy thought: soon we'll be happy to pay extra premium for "100% artisanal handcrafted code"

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keerthik @korc.me · 01/05/2026

i miss when i only got email from people genuinely wanting to collaborate, ask for my opinion on something i have experience with, or friends reconnecting after a while. most of my inbox is straight to trashcan nowadays

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keerthik @korc.me · 26/04/2026

i call this the "Y=Z principle" "if you have two independently developed software tools using a cartesian coordinate system identical in principle, at some point they will be contradictory in practice" which i learned when i needed to bounce between unity, unreal and blender in the same week

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keerthik @korc.me · 26/04/2026

is this optimized for 2D screen-user spectating, or is this also (roughly) the experience for a fellow VR user spectating?

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keerthik @korc.me · 26/04/2026

i see you here, using the internet and social media for its one true value proposition

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keerthik @korc.me · 21/04/2026

have we picked terminology for folk who loudly label media as genAI when it hasn't been disclosed? 📢 I nominate "slopcaller" 📢 - a "good" slopcaller is someone with a low (<2%) rate of false positives - an "aggressive" slopcaller calls anything AI-generated, harming real artists and their work

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keerthik @korc.me · 11/04/2026

"find all the bugs in your game before you launch" ... "not like that"

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keerthik @korc.me · 11/04/2026

i volunteer lost records: bloom & rage for evaluation for you to play and decide if it "feels" like a shooter at all dont-nod.com/en/games/los... (it did not, for me or my partner)

dont-nod.com

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage - DON'T NOD

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is a narrative adventure from the creative minds behind Life is Strange. Coming early 2025.

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keerthik @korc.me · 08/04/2026

this might be my programmer bias, but i feel like these fall under the set of 3D objects that are easier done with physics-inspired vector/shader code than mesh files

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keerthik @korc.me · 03/04/2026

we've all got a lil tech bro in us (ew)

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keerthik @korc.me · 31/03/2026

sadly, I don't think there have been any meaningful spec updates that would speed up OS switching if you got a spec'd out gen1 model (the one i have). your best bet is just making sure it's plugged into power so the mobo/CPU/SSD bus doesn't enter battery-efficiency mode when you boot up/reboot

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keerthik @korc.me · 30/03/2026

exhibit A: you don't need to understand most language to enjoy a certified banger about eating sambar www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6eg...

youtube.com

Sambar (Official Video) - ThirumaLi x Thudwiser X Fejo X Dabzee | Mrz Thoppi | Def Jam India

YouTube video by ThirumaLi

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keerthik @korc.me · 30/03/2026

my entire life, i have been a certified "mainstream" consumer of almost any media art except video games and anime — music, lit, movies, tv (EN) this past year, i started scouring the global music scene for lyrical masterpieces referencing topics EN music skips — i now claim hipster cred here

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keerthik @korc.me · 30/03/2026

if they put me on a train instead of a plane, i would legit be happy under some circumstances — but not if i had to go through airport security first

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/03/2026

my friend got me a gatcha bullet-train engine from JP, but it looked sad on display with just the single bogey, so i decided to put it in a tunnel!

a small toy train (engine only) made to look like it's emerging from a dark tunnel which is drawn on a whiteboard behind it.

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/03/2026

it feels weird to be extremely one foot on one foot off the genAI bandwagon. i have a visceral revulsion to genAI when it rears its head someplace i sought human connection (personal comms, art, music) or in slop meant to sell me things (ads and marketing copy) but in code...i like it? 😵‍💫

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/03/2026

my experience in keeping various moving parts in my head at a high level at once while letting coding agents deal with the nitty gritty helps me identify what's gone wrong faster and feel equipped to direct debugging efforts across systems.

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/03/2026

it's such a weird time to be alive. as a ~generalist software dev, i always mildly regretted not being a specialist (and thus more valuable to the field and industry) rather than basically a "glue things together guy" who could be swapped out today that's all backwards

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/03/2026

this must be where we send all the naughty LLMs who don't believe in human precedence hint: bot-hell

a google maps screenshot of a neighborhood called Bothell, or "bot-hell"

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keerthik @korc.me · 20/02/2026

tangential to the meme, i concur that game devs starting a serious project lean towards UE over Unity simply because they dogfood their tech as a serious part of their business, and Unity doesn't seriously try to sell a game made with Unity

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keerthik @korc.me · 29/01/2026

if you catch "i should get on adderall" followed some random amount of time by "i should take my adderall", then for a few clicks you only have one bubble available, important or not, and only after you click it does a new one come on (related tenuously to the previous one)

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keerthik @korc.me · 20/01/2026

i get their desire to control the cashflow of the entire ecosystem given they practically birthed it (since the oculus acquisition) -- but it would have grown much more healthily if they let other players have incentives to grow the ecosystem rather than be subjects within it

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keerthik @korc.me · 20/01/2026

meta kind of crippled the VR market despite putting so much money into it, by not doing any of the following: - open sourcing the shipped OS - enabling sensor access to devs - simpler app screening than apple - leaving successful apps without copying or acquinuking their business

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keerthik @korc.me · 20/01/2026

im curious what engine you're using, and have you been implementing RTS/RTT interactions from scratch for this game? it looks (and sounds!) really good

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keerthik @korc.me · 07/01/2026

yeahhh...i happened to be passing through grand central on the first day of lockdown with it looking like this during "rush hour", which is surreal for any new yorker. the next month i walked by medical tents in central park. in 2021 i moved to a place a block from Bellevue hospital. COVID was *bad*

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keerthik @korc.me · 06/01/2026

bsky.app/profile/korc...

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keerthik @korc.me · 06/01/2026

nearing endgame of E33, and can confirm that it blew hades 2 out of the contest for 2025 -- to be fair though, i don't think a sequel can ever truly compete in an honest GOTY race for me unless it's far more dramatically reimagined than hades 1 vs 2

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keerthik @korc.me · 30/12/2025

you rolled credits for blue prince, but did you *roll credits* ;) (i couldn't, i refused to use walkthroughs and i had to call it at some point to play CE33 instead)

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/12/2025

i love this (and hate that we're in this timeline) bsky.app/profile/korc...

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/12/2025

if we managed to divest the monetary incentive from the creation of art, artists could work on what they thought was nifty, instead of what would "sell" we could stop making the trillionth breakup song, christmas romcom, and hero's journey RPG plot and make truly beautiful things /end rant

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keerthik @korc.me · 23/12/2025

if artists had food/shelter/dignity *without* transactional consumption of their art, we could *all* have art, and we could all *make* art corpos wouldn't have the incentive to make it cheaper, and thus no incentive to burn piles of cash to automate it

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