New blog post: AI Allergy.

On my increasing disgust with the AI discourse, even though I still like the technical and philosophical. And how I wish I could be excited about AI again.

togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-a...

We shouldn't shy away from ethical questions like "what are we doing this for, and why? Who does this solution really serve and how?".

Ignoring these does ourselves an intellectual disservice, creating boring and unoriginal solutions, where at best we end up competing on axes where we have no moat.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

This is a neural network 🧠 (I will not elaborate further):

'轂湨瘱孙蹓𡛁庫㐀𡸖㠘琗㰀𧔒唀圀亦𖦪𡕆𥩆伨饨𤩤䢖𓉸ꗾ𣚖觊𢫠𤀖蛨嚖剽𦂿𐛲𢑈𣼋𢈢紨𤹠𡩕ᖀ',
'轂湨瘱孙蹓栁𣳌㐀𡸇團鄲㐀欂唀昀㐀𠀊鹪𢚧徒𢋴𠢬ꗦ碍鰽㑱𨓊𦨮𒆊喡鰂ꎙ',
'轂湨瘱孙蹓㔟𦼬㐀𡸁㐈䉀攀喀圀頚𠱐𢌂錀𦨮𒆊喡㘾𥡙'

Happy International Women's Day! ❤️
Some may not have noticed this was happening today, since google (🤢) removed it as a holiday from calendar. More evidence that we still need holidays like this!

Oh, so suddenly stealing other people's work is not okay when somebody else does it to you? Forgive me for not feeling any kind of sympathy here

Cutest thing this month was going to see Sonic 3 when the audience cheered at the end of credits scene

GG Nintendo take my money
youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ

Today: *changes a single integer to 0*
18x increase in code speed 😭

While I agree, I also think there's an angle of f2p where (theoretically, not necessarily in practice) the rich spend more to maintain the game, and the poor pay nothing, which feels like quite an egalitarian system to me when it's not pay-to-win.