Mordikan

Because development isn’t exactly asynchronous by nature. If you are waiting on placeholder assets, you are blocking everything dependent on “what comes next”. Even at the cost of going back to repopulate your assets with non-placeholders, you save a tremendous amount of time.

I want to hate on this guy, but at the same time this is just the reality of a lot of workflows these days. Most programmers I know professionally will do boilerplate work with Claude Code (like the chainsaw analogy he gave) and then do the more meaningful work themselves. Same for automating commit schedules.

Especially for small low-impact projects like Lutris (linux community loves it, but its just 3 people), if you’re going to maintain development speed, involving AI automation is probably going to be more of a positive to you than a negative. The real issue would be if the AI use snowballs and they unrealistically increase the scope of their project as that’s when most projects actually start to die.

No, that’s not how the new EU legislation works. The new laws build off existing Digital Services Act (DSA) and legacy E-Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) requirements. The DSA states again that you would have to lock down access to the material (once you become aware) and then inform authorities.

All site operators maintain safe harbor with EU authorities unless those two points are broken. In both US and EU pending legislation, no requirement to scan all STLs is required, so you do not have to automatically check all files like you mentioned.

I wouldn’t let that be a deterrent to starting an instance. Just make sure you understand the obligations you have as site owner when it comes to misuse. Maintain good logging and follow legal requirements (which in the US is locking down and preserving evidence and reporting to law enforcement hotlines - depending on the nature of the misuse).

I think the supply chain issue is probably the most pressing out of all of them. The other points people have are either non-issues or a result of dropping usage hogs into existing electrical infrastructure. Infrastructure can be updated, though.

Supply chain is different. There isn’t a supply shortage of chips, its that profitability dictates you should sell them to datacenters or adjacent industry. Unlike infrastructure where you can just build out more, adding more supply for chips just means you have more to sell to datacenters. Since the demand is there, end of day profits will always win.

Saw it was already commented about CO2, so I thought I’d counter-point your environment claim regarding water usage (since that is something I’ve seen a lot of too).

The ISSA had a call to action due to the AI water use “crisis”: https://www.issa.com/industry-news/ai-data-center-water-consumption-is-creating-an-unprecedented-crisis-in-the-united-states/

68 billion gallons of water by 2028! That’s a lot…right? Well, what I found is that this is somewhat of a bad faith argument. 68 billion gallons annually is a lot for one town, but those are numbers from a national level and it isn’t compared to usage from anything else. So, lets look at US agriculture (that’s something that’s tracked very well by the USDA): https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2024/Census22_HL_Irrigation_4.pdf

That’s 26.4 trillion gallons of water annually. So, AI datacenter represents 0.26% of agriculture consumption. If AI datacenter consumption is a crisis, why is agriculture consumption not a crisis? You could argue that agriculture produces “something useful”, but usefulness doesn’t factor into the scarcity of a resource. So, either its not a crisis, or you are cherry picking something that has no meaningful outcome to solving the problem.

The funniest part of that is psychically adept humans at the time in prehistory began to notice that souls weren’t returning (it was because they were being eaten in the Immaterium). Hence them coming together to group suicide themselves and form a mega-soul which was birthed as the person who later becomes the Emperor.

So, the birth of the Emperor is the indirect result of a bunch of horny space elves who couldn’t keep it in their pants.

I don’t want to hate on it, but at the same time why is everything AI just hyper-realistic uncanny valley perfectionism BS?

I know people harp on AI for stealing art, but honestly whose art are they stealing? Because its really bad. If we’re going to live in a dystopia can they at least steal art of people who are good at it.