Peter Hansen
@pitecohansen.bsky.social
Brazilian game dev based in Brighton, UK
Previously Head of Tech at FuturLab (PowerWash Simulator 1 & 2), now looking for exciting indie projects to work on :)
Escolhido do Botafogo também!
Previously Head of Tech at FuturLab (PowerWash Simulator 1 & 2), now looking for exciting indie projects to work on :)
Escolhido do Botafogo também!
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And 2026 is the year we find that:
1.) AI hasn't progressed.
2.) Costs have been subsidized and no one is willing to pay true cost.
3.) Metrics are gamed and useless.
4.) "Agents" are make believe.
5.) True demand is only a small fraction of what has been generally assumed.
Welcome to Hell.
1.) AI hasn't progressed.
2.) Costs have been subsidized and no one is willing to pay true cost.
3.) Metrics are gamed and useless.
4.) "Agents" are make believe.
5.) True demand is only a small fraction of what has been generally assumed.
Welcome to Hell.
In 2025, too many congratulated themselves on AI progress using the wrong measures. Lines of code added. Pull requests opened. Teams saying they “feel faster.” Those are activity metrics that we long considered junk. They are easy to inflate, easy to celebrate, and largely meaningless.
January 2, 2026 at 3:38 AM
And 2026 is the year we find that:
1.) AI hasn't progressed.
2.) Costs have been subsidized and no one is willing to pay true cost.
3.) Metrics are gamed and useless.
4.) "Agents" are make believe.
5.) True demand is only a small fraction of what has been generally assumed.
Welcome to Hell.
1.) AI hasn't progressed.
2.) Costs have been subsidized and no one is willing to pay true cost.
3.) Metrics are gamed and useless.
4.) "Agents" are make believe.
5.) True demand is only a small fraction of what has been generally assumed.
Welcome to Hell.
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One of the many splinters jammed into the soft and squishy parts of my brain.
January 2, 2026 at 3:43 AM
One of the many splinters jammed into the soft and squishy parts of my brain.
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Not sure if anyone is talking about how these rising GPU and RAM costs across the board will absolutely devastate gaming, and thus, games dev, even further. Hardware is going to be completely priced out of normal people's hands.
[Newsis] Consumer GPUs to increase in price next year. RTX 5090 to increase from $2000 to $5000
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
December 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Not sure if anyone is talking about how these rising GPU and RAM costs across the board will absolutely devastate gaming, and thus, games dev, even further. Hardware is going to be completely priced out of normal people's hands.
Une Dune Três
Jamais Dune sans trois
Dune, au delà du Dôme de Tonnerre ?
December 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Une Dune Três
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Dune Nukem 3d
December 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Dune Nukem 3d
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Most of my professional work in tech was *undoing* the work of self-styled “super devs” who has been allowed to run free because the businesses that employed us realized these guys had made a fucking mess of everything and they needed systems that worked in an understandable and maintainable way.
imo software engineering will revolve around the super devs who are able to knock out entire sprints of work in a day or two when they need to.
critically though:
1) I do not think there are enough of these devs
2) no idea how you train more of these if you don't gain skills from pre-llm coding
critically though:
1) I do not think there are enough of these devs
2) no idea how you train more of these if you don't gain skills from pre-llm coding
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Most of my professional work in tech was *undoing* the work of self-styled “super devs” who has been allowed to run free because the businesses that employed us realized these guys had made a fucking mess of everything and they needed systems that worked in an understandable and maintainable way.
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it makes me sad to see my mum playing just the most dark pattern microtransaction-riddled garbage when I know she'd enjoy games like Her Story!
the middle-aged demographic is assumed to be stupid and not worthy of respect by some of the studios that make those games and it makes me so mad
the middle-aged demographic is assumed to be stupid and not worthy of respect by some of the studios that make those games and it makes me so mad
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
it makes me sad to see my mum playing just the most dark pattern microtransaction-riddled garbage when I know she'd enjoy games like Her Story!
the middle-aged demographic is assumed to be stupid and not worthy of respect by some of the studios that make those games and it makes me so mad
the middle-aged demographic is assumed to be stupid and not worthy of respect by some of the studios that make those games and it makes me so mad
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Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
August 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
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Just had to check
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just had to check
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Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
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"They don't make games like they used to", says man who refuses to play indie games made exactly like they used to be
December 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"They don't make games like they used to", says man who refuses to play indie games made exactly like they used to be
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concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
concentration camps.
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anyone who says "you have to find the fun" doesn't know what their game is
December 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
anyone who says "you have to find the fun" doesn't know what their game is
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forever ago, around the time Double Fine Adventure was announced, I started making a series of illustrations called pointclicking.com - Adventure Games Illustrated.
Here’s a thread of some of my personals favs:
01 - Full Throttle
Here’s a thread of some of my personals favs:
01 - Full Throttle
October 25, 2024 at 7:42 PM
forever ago, around the time Double Fine Adventure was announced, I started making a series of illustrations called pointclicking.com - Adventure Games Illustrated.
Here’s a thread of some of my personals favs:
01 - Full Throttle
Here’s a thread of some of my personals favs:
01 - Full Throttle
My boomer complaint of the day is the amazing concept of car rentals where you reserve a family car with a child's seat, and then at the time you pick it up:
- the car you reserved isn't there, and you'll have to manage a smaller one
- the child seat isn't there
- the car you reserved isn't there, and you'll have to manage a smaller one
- the child seat isn't there
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My boomer complaint of the day is the amazing concept of car rentals where you reserve a family car with a child's seat, and then at the time you pick it up:
- the car you reserved isn't there, and you'll have to manage a smaller one
- the child seat isn't there
- the car you reserved isn't there, and you'll have to manage a smaller one
- the child seat isn't there
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Every 2 days a guy that looks exactly like this wakes up and says 'have we tried capitalism as a climate solution??????????????' and then fifteen billion dollars of funding materialises in front of them
‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions - but experts sceptical
‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions - but experts sceptical
Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates
The founder of an investment firm buying large estates across Britain to restore woods and peatland has said it is “unashamedly and proudly” capitalist, and plans to make tens of millions of pounds in profit.
Rich Stockdale, the chief executive of Oxygen Conservation, said his model of “regenerative capitalism” was a “force for good” because it would offer investors significant profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, operating solar farms and holiday homes and installing new windfarms across its estates. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Every 2 days a guy that looks exactly like this wakes up and says 'have we tried capitalism as a climate solution??????????????' and then fifteen billion dollars of funding materialises in front of them
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Warning signs for recession have been flashing all year, says Rob Fahey, but the US sales slump is the starkest sign yet of how vulnerable the industry’s narrow focus has made it.
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
November’s data shows gaming struggling to reach beyond the core | Opinion
Warning signs have been flashing all year, but the US sales slump is the starkest sign yet of how vulnerable the industry’s narrow focus has made it.
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Warning signs for recession have been flashing all year, says Rob Fahey, but the US sales slump is the starkest sign yet of how vulnerable the industry’s narrow focus has made it.
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
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this is a v good podcast: www.theverge.com/podcast/8389...
which links to this v good article: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
which says that LLMs are at best a "common sense repository". that is a great thing to have! really valuable.
but not God. & not a replacement for thinking/creativity
which links to this v good article: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
which says that LLMs are at best a "common sense repository". that is a great thing to have! really valuable.
but not God. & not a replacement for thinking/creativity
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is a v good podcast: www.theverge.com/podcast/8389...
which links to this v good article: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
which says that LLMs are at best a "common sense repository". that is a great thing to have! really valuable.
but not God. & not a replacement for thinking/creativity
which links to this v good article: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
which says that LLMs are at best a "common sense repository". that is a great thing to have! really valuable.
but not God. & not a replacement for thinking/creativity
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
The cease-fire that never was
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The cease-fire that never was
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists.
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot
European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent ‘confusion’. Just don’t mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists.
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up
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“We don’t have to be kind, anymore” is a sentiment that seems to be manifesting explicitly and implicitly all over the place. An alarming number of people seem to be relishing the opportunity.
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“We don’t have to be kind, anymore” is a sentiment that seems to be manifesting explicitly and implicitly all over the place. An alarming number of people seem to be relishing the opportunity.
As a child and fan of Calvin and Hobbes I used to be disappointed by not having official games, toys, mugs, T-shirts
I remember the day when it clicked on me why Bill Watterson never did that, and my love for the comics and respect for him grew even further
Can't wait to introduce it to my kids :)
I remember the day when it clicked on me why Bill Watterson never did that, and my love for the comics and respect for him grew even further
Can't wait to introduce it to my kids :)
A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
As a child and fan of Calvin and Hobbes I used to be disappointed by not having official games, toys, mugs, T-shirts
I remember the day when it clicked on me why Bill Watterson never did that, and my love for the comics and respect for him grew even further
Can't wait to introduce it to my kids :)
I remember the day when it clicked on me why Bill Watterson never did that, and my love for the comics and respect for him grew even further
Can't wait to introduce it to my kids :)