Sacha Sayan

Relevant to recent events.

On a token hunt to make my rally game even more photo-real and feeling damned pleased. This is @threejs on a Macbook M1 Air at ~50fps and less than of ~30mb of assets total. Pushing it to the absolute limit here. Dynamic weather, cube mapped live HDR reflections, GTAO, SMAA, TAA, shader-based grass, everything. All texture and model assets completely generated.

Last 48h have been a doozy.

Here's a good one for the "code is okay, but you should never ai-generate art" crowd to wrap their heads around. – at Richmond Hill, Ontario

Fable 5.2 pretty much one-shotted a generic Lancia 037 for my little rally racing game and I'm in awe, but more importantly it's reinforcing something I've started to believe with respect to the bitter lesson: You should intentionally put off work that is difficult now because you'll be able to one-shot it later. It should be a core part of your roadmapping work to consider this. When I started Rally Positano, the 3D capabilities of the models weren't that good, so I intentionally limited car selection to just one vehicle — which still took me quite a bit of time. More effort went to other tasks that I knew would be easier at that moment. As I worked, the models improved. Now that 5.2 is out, I can loop back around and start adding more cars to the roster because the newest model is now capable of doing that work relatively trouble-free. Knowing to do the easiest things you can do now because other things will become easier later is now a crucial workflow consideration. Procrastination is the new moat.

Left: Rolls Royce Ghost Right: BYD's new Altior flagship One hell of an example of how much Chinese design/industry is dunking on the rest of the world right now.

Crazy how much of the population hasn't caught onto Jevon's Paradox with respect to AI yet. We're still so early.

This is also why I've found that voice is so good: Talking with your agent beats talking to your agent because it allows you to uncover what you really want.

everything i have learned about lucy guo i have done so against my will

ahhh fuck it's good

I've stopped doing PRs entirely. Stopped doing design phases, too. Stopped doing kanban boards. It's quicker to just say what you want and have the agent do it. Velocity wins every time.

Gave my little rally racer a photo mode harness and told my AI to go off and take some shots itself. This shit rips.

Crazy how well this interior-mapping trick worked.

We should design data centers that look like – at Markham, Ontario

Hasan Piker is having the wildest month.

Having way too much fun with the menu diorama in my little #threejs rally racing game.

the moat is updating your dependencies daily to keep up with all the CVEs