Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 18hI'm more than willing to put that effort in when collaborating with a colleague and find it rewarding. But with an LLM? It's total reverse-centaur stuff. 120
Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 18hDoing code reviews for other programmers is worth the effort because you are both teaching and learning, it is a longer part of career development. I find reviewing robot generated code pretty soul-draining. Code reviews are brain intensive and unlike coding, never involve a "flow state" 120
Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 18hReading 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 173
Reposted by Steve AnichiniJames Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White 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. 110410
Reposted by Steve AnichiniAras 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... 26616
Reposted by Steve AnichiniSarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The 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 0787
Reposted by Steve AnichiniAdam Marrs @acmarrs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The 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...nvidia.comGears of War: E-Day Out Now With DLSS 4.5RTX Mega Geometry, ray tracing & 7.5X faster on average at 4K 1104
Reposted by Steve AnichiniScott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Lol www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...theregister.comAI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companiesGlow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work 141
Reposted by Steve AnichiniSarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 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) 520931
Reposted by Steve AnichiniChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026CASE MOTHEREFFING KEENUM 6371829
Reposted by Steve AnichiniJaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yeah people should really use AnyDice.com goated resourceanydice.comAnyDiceAnyDice is an advanced dice probability calculator, available online. It is created with roleplaying games in mind. 420721
Reposted by Steve AnichiniJonathan Stone @sheriffstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thanks 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. 0147
Reposted by Steve AnichiniFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This 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...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow 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 ... 591946468
Reposted by Steve AnichiniRobin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 24/09/2026I 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 44:02youtu.beLightning 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 2113
Reposted by Steve AnichiniD.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine. 2649141737
Reposted by Steve AnichiniLia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am now keeping this on speed-dial 81101321
Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just finished up Zero Company. Really fantastic. I love the x-com genre of games and this is a worthy entry. 000
Reposted by Steve AnichiniDavid Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Still enjoy this comic I made years ago, even if I haven’t done any graphics work in so long. 1396
Reposted by Steve AnichiniTara Voelker @tarav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Well, 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.comrebindstudios.comRebind Studios – More Ways to PlayRebind Studios helps game developers, publishers, and platforms create more accessible player experiences. 45524
Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Should be fine not like these tech companies have gained a reputation of utter recklessness and disregard for safety 120
Reposted by Steve AnichiniDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I 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 431632459
Reposted by Steve AnichiniScorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history. 6135971125
Reposted by Steve AnichiniKevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Caleb 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 522933
Reposted by Steve AnichiniJaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think the industry (myself included) needs to put more effort into death ragdolls. I want them to be funny, not natural. 4575755
Reposted by Steve AnichiniBruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026After 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...thestar.comPablo Torre uncovered the Kawhi scandal and won a Pulitzer. He’s still searching for something moreThe 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. 391199216
Reposted by Steve AnichiniSeth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Being John Malkovich (1999) 1151
Reposted by Steve AnichiniSoufiane KHIAT @soufianekhiat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Alwan 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 22412
Reposted by Steve AnichiniTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...scientificamerican.comOpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts sayOpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach 12958393
Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'd go with Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC. It was a great farewell to the trilogy's characters, and a nice counterpoint to the tone of the rest of the game. 030
Reposted by Steve AnichiniMike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026One 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...blog.doubleword.aiWhat happens when a GPU reads memory | DoublewordFollowing an LDG.E SASS instruction through the hardware units in an RTX 4090. 1247
Reposted by Steve AnichiniAMD GPUOpen @gpuopen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Our 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...gpuopen.comRay tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cagesAnimate 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... 0302
Reposted by Steve Anichinijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026if this happens, the democratic president should ignore the stay and keep tearing down the buildling 1313731555
Reposted by Steve AnichiniSarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 27/08/2026With 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 0679
Reposted by Steve Anichinimjp @mjp123.bsky.social · 22/08/2026WIP spec for Work Lists, the successor to ExecuteIndirect that lets you change PSOs between draws and dispatches github.com/microsoft/Di...github.com 23812
Reposted by Steve AnichiniFarBridge @farbridgeco.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Latest 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/... 0126
Reposted by Steve AnichiniJacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I 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...github.comGitHub - jbikker/tinybvh at devSingle-header dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh 2232
Reposted by Steve AnichiniWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had! 994523732
Steve Anichini @solidangle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Every 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. 041
Reposted by Steve AnichiniPatrick Curry @patrickmcurry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026IGN 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... 🤖ign.comJob Simulator: Human Relations Keeps the Comedy and the Multiplayer Madness but Ditches the VR | IGN PreviewJob 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... 181
Reposted by Steve AnichiniOwlchemy Labs @owlchemylabs.com · 11/08/2026Wish 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 22916
Reposted by Steve AnichiniManda Farough @ MIGW, PAX Aus | Causeway Studios @amandafarough.ca · 05/08/2026An exceptional exploration of genAI in game development from a producer who absolutely Gets It: www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...productionalchemist.comI Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too SlowAI is optimising the cheapest part of production 315353
Reposted by Steve Anichinialice lastnamé @yeahbuddysureok.bsky.social · 02/08/2026the Banister pitching lab is going to drive up the cost of ram soon 1141
Reposted by Steve AnichiniYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same 262239611
Reposted by Steve AnichiniGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026See you in court, creep. 251125012798
Reposted by Steve AnichiniWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...youtube.comNeuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TVYouTube video by Apple TV 24759631516
Reposted by Steve Anichinikottke.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]stephenfollows.comWhat just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us allIf 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. 09056