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Steve Anichini

@solidangle.bsky.social
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CTO and Co-founder of Disbelief, a game studio. www.disbelief.com We've worked on: Gears of War: E-Day, Marvel's Deadpool VR, Gears of War: Reloaded, Borderlands 4, Minecraft, ... I've also worked on: BioShock Infinite, Stranglehold, ...

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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 15h
Reading through this paper AI adoption is shifting programmer labor from writing code to code reviews, which sounds like a good way to burn out a lot of programmers (and limit the pool of future reviewers), for "statistically insignificant" gains in final software output
We find evidence of a bottleneck from the code review process: The average time to review a pull request increases by 49%, the share of pull requests with changes requested nearly doubles, and
the number of comments per pull request increases by 35%. Firms also reallocate labor toward review activities: the share of workers performing code reviews increases by 14%. This bottleneck persists
following the adoption of AI code review tools. Although firms increasingly use AI to assist with code review, human reviewers continue to play a central role in the review process.
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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White Sox beat the Guardians, 4-3 A three-run sixth keyed by a Braden Montgomery two-run double flipped the game. Sean Burke was brilliant in bulk. Grant Taylor pitched again. Sox are a win away from the ALCS.
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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Unroll a loop, make shader 10x faster", where I accidentally speed up Blender's Kuwahara compositor node on Apple GPUs (and elsewhere). aras-p.info/blog/2026/10...
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The White Sox have led at the end of 24 of the innings they’ve played this postseason That’s the most in the first 3 games of a postseason run in franchise history and Tied for most by any team in first 3 games of a PS last 20 years, with 2019 NYY & 2017 LAD h/t @EliasSports
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Adam Marrs @acmarrs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first game to Ray Trace Nanite has arrived! Gears of War: E-Day is out now - with super charged ray tracing powered by RTX Mega Geometry. Proud of what we achieved with our friends at The Coalition. www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...
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Gears of War: E-Day Out Now With DLSS 4.5
RTX Mega Geometry, ray tracing & 7.5X faster on average at 4K
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Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lol www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
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AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the White Sox first postseason series win since the 2005 World Series, also vs HOU That snaps the second-longest active drought without a postseason series win entering today (CIN 1995 NLDS)
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CASE MOTHEREFFING KEENUM
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah people should really use AnyDice.com goated resource
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AnyDice
AnyDice is an advanced dice probability calculator, available online. It is created with roleplaying games in mind.
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Jonathan Stone @sheriffstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks to our colleagues at Pixar, NVIDIA, SideFX, OTOY, Blender, and Autodesk for their amazing work on this year's MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Town Hall. The full slide deck can be found at materialx.org/assets/ASWF_..., and stay tuned for the published video from the @aswf.io.
The MaterialX Teapot and LionThe MaterialX Stirling
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 24/09/2026
I gave a lightning talk at Blendercon! It's about USD, and how you don't have to worry about it!! It's easy! Catch the recording here at 44:02
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Lightning Talks & Suzanne Awards — BCON26
"Lightning Talks & Suzanne Awards" by Thomas Dinges at Blender Conference 2026 A series of quick and varied presentations 5 minutes (or less!), ending with the awards for the Suzanne Festival screened on the first day. 2026's talks: 1) Timothy Tan - BCON Shenzhen 2025 and 2026 2) Giovanni Gallo - TOUCH, a post Metropolis short movie 3) Frank Rousseau - Kitsu 4) Sam Van Hulle - Captain Redbeard and the Kraken - Geometry Nodes in a stylized adventure epic 5) Doris Rastinger - Crimes against topology - Blender for stylized fabric printing 6) Jacob - A Proper Lens Distortion Workflow for VFX in Blender 7) Christopher Strommer - Real Band meets Virtual Word 8) Sebastian König - Anthrolab 9) Robin-Yann Storm - What is OpenUSD? 10) Evan Spiridellis - New pipelines to produce and Independent animated film 11) Mark van de Ruit - Help, my area lights are leaking 12) Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar - Portable projection mapping with Blender 13) Calvin Romeyn - DIESEL SOLDAT - A Blender "Brickfilm" (preview) 14) Reserved – To register for a Lightning Talk: contact Thomas Dinges at thomas@blender.org with all of the following information: * Presentation title * Short description (1-2 sentences) * Link to Google Slides if you need a presentation (make sure the presentation is accesible for everyone with the link) Please note: Presentations promoting commercial services or extensions will not be accepted. – Learn more about Blender Conference 2026 at https://conference.blender.org/2026/ #b3d #BCON26
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just finished up Zero Company. Really fantastic. I love the x-com genre of games and this is a worthy entry.
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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Still enjoy this comic I made years ago, even if I haven’t done any graphics work in so long.
3 panel comic named “Tiles”.

Panel 1: a person looking at a document labelled “GPU texture tiling library”, and wondering to themself, “I don’t need to use this”
Panel 2: the person triumphantly declaring, “I’ll just roll my own texture loading with manual memcpys”
Panel 3: the person quietly declaring “oh no”, their hubris finally realized, as their world is ripped apart at the pixel level because they didn’t properly take into account intended the GPU’s swizzled memory layout.
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Tara Voelker @tarav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, I finally took my own advice about building accessibility in from the beginning. Rebind Studios is officially underway. I’m excited to help teams solve hard accessibility and production problems and, eventually, to make some games of our own. www.rebindstudios.com
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Rebind Studios – More Ways to Play
Rebind Studios helps game developers, publishers, and platforms create more accessible player experiences.
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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Should be fine not like these tech companies have gained a reputation of utter recklessness and disregard for safety
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.
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Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Caleb Williams with the best performance for a Bears QB in a season opener since at least 2000 by passer rating (124.1), completion percentage (72.4%) and EPA per dropback (0.48) per @TruMediaSports. Bears 59, Panthers 37 The Bears are 1-0
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think the industry (myself included) needs to put more effort into death ragdolls. I want them to be funny, not natural.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After the NBA smashed the Clippers, @pablo.show was asked over and over, do you feel validated? He wanted to say no. But after growing up in a crumbling media environment, and after pouring so much into his Pulitzer-winning podcast, he struggled to admit: yes, he did. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...
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Pablo Torre uncovered the Kawhi scandal and won a Pulitzer. He’s still searching for something more
The Los Angeles Clippers-Kawhi Leonard cap circumvention case as presented on “Pablo Torre Finds Out” has been his masterpiece. It’s only part of his story.
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Seth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Elevator buttons for different floors. On the left, there’s floors 1, 2 and 3. On the right there’s floors 1.5 and 2.5.
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Soufiane KHIAT @soufianekhiat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Alwan 2.0.0 is out. Colour science in pure C11, first public release. Almost a year! No dependencies. f32 and f64 in one binary. A core that compiles unchanged as C, HLSL, GLSL and Halide. MIT. github.com/soufianek... 1/28
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One thing I learned from this article is that (on NVIDIA GPUs) 128-byte cache lines are divided into 4 32-byte sectors, which are read independently. So there's a benefit to reducing random-access reads below the cache-line size, but not below 32 bytes. blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens...
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What happens when a GPU reads memory | Doubleword
Following an LDG.E SASS instruction through the hardware units in an RTX 4090.
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AMD GPUOpen @gpuopen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our tetrahedral cage research just got a demo video! 🎥 🔺 Decouples animation cost from triangle count for massive real-time ray tracing. ⚡ See tetrahedral cages used to animate plants in a large-scale terrain at 60+ FPS. Watch it ⬇️ gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tr...
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Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages
Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense foliage, gr...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
if this happens, the democratic president should ignore the stay and keep tearing down the buildling
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
With Munetaka Murakami and Tristan Peters, the White Sox are the first team since at least 1900 to have two rookies with a 5+ game HR streak in a single season h/t @EliasSports
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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
WIP spec for Work Lists, the successor to ExecuteIndirect that lets you change PSOs between draws and dispatches github.com/microsoft/Di...
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FarBridge @farbridgeco.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Latest update (and good news) on Job Simulator: Human Relations Sign-up for playtesting here: farbridge.com/jobsimulator... For updates on development, stay tuned to our website farbridge.com/jobsimulator and the Steam page store.steampowered.com/app/4965500/...
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Jacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I have been working on some dx12 hw ray tracing code to directly compare TinyBVH sw ray tracing on the GPU against DXR. Code is now in the dev branch, see external/dx12rt. Results so far: TinyBVH reaches about 38% of HW RT perf for primary rays. Need to do better. :) github.com/jbikker/tiny...
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GitHub - jbikker/tinybvh at dev
Single-header dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
April - 1805
Napoleon is master of Europe
Only the British fleet stands before him
Compute is now an asset class 

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/981668/nvidias-goldman-blackrock-gpu-compute-asset
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every day I get about three spam texts asking for donations. I also get three voice mails a day with a business loan scam. If your primary method of outreach to your base is basically the same as the people running business loan scams, you've got a problem.
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Patrick Curry @patrickmcurry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
IGN wrote up a really nice preview for our new game! "Based on what I’ve played so far, Job Simulator certainly hasn’t lost any of its whimsy in the pivot away from VR. If anything, Human Relations will introduce the series to a whole lot more players." www.ign.com/articles/job... 🤖
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Job Simulator: Human Relations Keeps the Comedy and the Multiplayer Madness but Ditches the VR | IGN Preview
Job Simulator: Human Relations is a new non-VR version of the popular comedic multiplayer workplace sim that is played on a regular ol’ flat-screen monitor. Although ironically, your character is an a...
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Owlchemy Labs @owlchemylabs.com · 11/08/2026
Wish you could enjoy the same existential workplace dread and lovable Bots of Job Simulator but with a new twist? 🤖We’ve partnered with FarBridge to bring you a new way to [JOB]! ☕💥 Clock in as a backer for multiplayer 2D game, Human Relations, NOW LIVE on Kickstarter! ow.ly/HI3k50Zyy0H
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Manda Farough @ MIGW, PAX Aus | Causeway Studios @amandafarough.ca · 05/08/2026
An exceptional exploration of genAI in game development from a producer who absolutely Gets It: www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...
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I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
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alice lastnamé @yeahbuddysureok.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the Banister pitching lab is going to drive up the cost of ram soon
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same
a simple Google line chart titled "What The Fuck Is Going On" that shows growth in What The Fuck from 2021 to 2026, with a significant increase in 2024 to 2026

x-axis is Year
y-axis is What The Fuck

the values are:

Year        What The Fuck
2021	11
2022	8
2023	17
2024	19
2025	42
2026	84
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026
See you in court, creep.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...
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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/07/2026
“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.) [stephenfollows.com]
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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 21/07/2026
wait a minute
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Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Mark Baum's Angry Phone Call: Yep, There's a Bubble
Alt: Mark Baum's Angry Phone Call: Yep, There's a Bubble
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026
“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course line up is here - check it out! advances.realtimerendering.com
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