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The loss of the original team was a tremendous blow. After Quake, a common criticism of id was that they put out tech demos instead of games.

It was people like Michael Abrash who did the groundbreaking optimization work at that time. He single-handedly doubled Quake's framerate.

Prey was infamously in development in various forms for over a decade.

The technical innovations also began to have no impact or even an adverse one. Doom 3's push for 100% real-time stencil shadows was practically ignored by the industry when HL2 and other competitors came out. MegaTexture was actually removed from the engine in Doom Eternal.

There are several snarky knee-jerk reactions in the comments here, but state assemblies pass things all the time that ultimately fail to pass or get vetoed. Now the public will debate it, contact their state senators to give their opinions...it's all part of the process.

How did you determine that it's even more dangerous?

Is that how you built the app you claim Apple rejected as spam?

You built it from scratch? According to your Twitter, you're not writing any code. You're not even reviewing it.

There's been a noticeable drop in quality. It's often a blend of AI culture war posts and arbitrary Github links.

Merging related models has been a very common practice for years. See the Stable Diffusion community.

Your recollection is incorrect, and besides that, Covid had a serious impact on the world that's still being felt today. We didn't simply "get through it just fine."

> is there a truth requirement anywhere?

Yes, and it's called defamation when you don't follow it.

Population caps by fiat have always been terrible moves. Example: every country that's ever had them.

If a human was hallucinating and polluting a codebase with errors, they would be fired and possibly treated for dementia. Even worse, an LLM is trained to produce plausible-looking results, so it's harder to detect the mistakes.

> 3 years max. Maybe 5 if you are lucky.The models will continue to improve. The exponential gains in compute efficiency that have been ongoing for 70+ years will continue and that will result in even smarter models. There are dramatic hardware changes in the pipeline.

I remember hearing that 10 years ago about self-driving.

> most code changes are AI generated

That's a huge claim.

In 7 days?

> LLMs are so frequently inaccurate its crazy to think of it fully replacing search.

It's baffling that people have become so devoted to them as a source of information given how inaccurate they are. I've learned not to trust anything they say, ever, especially when it comes to technical subjects.

They're saying that if you try to step outside the box or achieve a complex design, SwiftUI falls short, which is also my experience with the framework after using it for many years, especially on macOS.

> Claims like "It's hard to build a performant SwiftUI app" get into skill-issue territory

I don't know why SwiftUI evangelists are still doing this in 2026. How many examples of SwiftUI's poor performance have to be demonstrated over the years? Even basic things like List continue to lag behind NSTableView in the most recent releases.

60% is a normal human mistake rate? You can't be serious.

> what do you actually want?

I want to be able to right-click on an app and choose "Open" to run the program with an authentication dialog. You used to be able to do this, but Apple removed it in favor of an incredibly annoying process of having to go into System Settings every time.

Unfortunately, Linux is nowhere near ready for the desktop outside of the techies/programmers who read Hacker News.

Surveillance states and mass media manipulation are a staple of sci-fi. Those topics were particularly common around that time too. E.g., The Matrix.

That's certainly a claim.

One of the amusing things about AI bros is how naively over-enthusiastic they are about the technology and its inevitability.

> No. AI is a must for software development. It's non-negotiable.

???

Because it's funny that The Onion will be taking over InfoWars.

> When DJT talked about cancelling the Dept of Edu, I got ahold of all the teachers I knew and asked them what impact it would have, and their response was mostly that they would lose their school lunch benefits.

Not the most convincing sample size.

Sounds like a great way to avoid alcohol addiction, prevent drunk driving deaths, and save countless generations from being negatively impacted in one way or another by alcohol.