Henry Falconer
@kernelpanic99.bsky.social
Principal Engine Programmer on Epic Games' MetaHumans team. Opinions are my own. He/him
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Look at industries that have “easy” interviews but pay well
Pedigree is everything there
Interviews are easy because they are locked off for most people… selection happens before
In software engineering (still?) not the case and this is good IMO
(So be careful what you complain about!)
Pedigree is everything there
Interviews are easy because they are locked off for most people… selection happens before
In software engineering (still?) not the case and this is good IMO
(So be careful what you complain about!)
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Look at industries that have “easy” interviews but pay well
Pedigree is everything there
Interviews are easy because they are locked off for most people… selection happens before
In software engineering (still?) not the case and this is good IMO
(So be careful what you complain about!)
Pedigree is everything there
Interviews are easy because they are locked off for most people… selection happens before
In software engineering (still?) not the case and this is good IMO
(So be careful what you complain about!)
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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Apparently, blame has negative consequences even when the subject is an AI. www.seangoedecke.com/do-not-yell-...
Do not yell at the language model
A few days ago, the news went viral that Replit’s AI coding agent went rogue and deleted a production database. A lot has been written about it since then: how…
www.seangoedecke.com
July 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Apparently, blame has negative consequences even when the subject is an AI. www.seangoedecke.com/do-not-yell-...
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Remember when in the late 90s / early 2000s someone came up with a way to hire 10 developers for the same price as your current devs.
Same competence level. Same output per dev.
It should have led to 10x the output.
It was called “offshoring.”
It’s NOT what happened…
Same competence level. Same output per dev.
It should have led to 10x the output.
It was called “offshoring.”
It’s NOT what happened…
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Remember when in the late 90s / early 2000s someone came up with a way to hire 10 developers for the same price as your current devs.
Same competence level. Same output per dev.
It should have led to 10x the output.
It was called “offshoring.”
It’s NOT what happened…
Same competence level. Same output per dev.
It should have led to 10x the output.
It was called “offshoring.”
It’s NOT what happened…
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Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.
x.com/MooseAllain/...
x.com/MooseAllain/...
Moose Allain Ꙭ on X: "Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye." / X
Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.
x.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.
x.com/MooseAllain/...
x.com/MooseAllain/...
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When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
July 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
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I mean, I film stuff at gigs. Of course I do. But I put the thing DOWN after a quick bit of memento filming? Do people who film the whole gig actually ever watch their terrible concert films back?
June 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I mean, I film stuff at gigs. Of course I do. But I put the thing DOWN after a quick bit of memento filming? Do people who film the whole gig actually ever watch their terrible concert films back?
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crank it up to 11
cities aren't loud - cars are loud.
cities aren't loud - cars are loud.
Take away all the car noise and you’d swear you’re in a bird sanctuary, yet this is in the urban center of Edinburgh.
June 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
crank it up to 11
cities aren't loud - cars are loud.
cities aren't loud - cars are loud.
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Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it?
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...
ferd.ca
June 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it?
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
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I have no desire to consume art made by AI. Especially writing. Listening to stories is inherently and crucially human. They teach us about the human experience. When you take the human out of that, you just have empty words. When you let AI write the story, there is no human experience.
June 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I have no desire to consume art made by AI. Especially writing. Listening to stories is inherently and crucially human. They teach us about the human experience. When you take the human out of that, you just have empty words. When you let AI write the story, there is no human experience.
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being intimidated by bluesky is so funny. yeah i keep getting my ass kicked every time i go to bath and body works
Speakers at WelcomePAC have mentioned being dunked on by BlueSky posters no less than a dozen times in the first hour alone. This site has broken their brains
June 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
being intimidated by bluesky is so funny. yeah i keep getting my ass kicked every time i go to bath and body works
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I think maybe bc I wrote the piece about my kids being wild in public you might think I disagree with this @laureneahmed.bsky.social piece but I actually think they go hand in hand! If kids cross the line, it’s ok to tell them! www.the-pom.com/p/i-dont-car...
I Don't Care If You Correct My Kids
Part of parents stepping back is the community stepping forward.
www.the-pom.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think maybe bc I wrote the piece about my kids being wild in public you might think I disagree with this @laureneahmed.bsky.social piece but I actually think they go hand in hand! If kids cross the line, it’s ok to tell them! www.the-pom.com/p/i-dont-car...
Great thread. Definitely matches my experience.
There's a huge upside of remote work in being able to get the best people from 100s of miles away onto the same team when they would never relocate, but there are real downsides as well.
You have to work harder to build a culture and it's not easy.
There's a huge upside of remote work in being able to get the best people from 100s of miles away onto the same team when they would never relocate, but there are real downsides as well.
You have to work harder to build a culture and it's not easy.
I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
May 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Great thread. Definitely matches my experience.
There's a huge upside of remote work in being able to get the best people from 100s of miles away onto the same team when they would never relocate, but there are real downsides as well.
You have to work harder to build a culture and it's not easy.
There's a huge upside of remote work in being able to get the best people from 100s of miles away onto the same team when they would never relocate, but there are real downsides as well.
You have to work harder to build a culture and it's not easy.
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New #travelblog - 5 Thoroughly Underrated European cities!
Describing anywhere as a hidden gem in the era of Instagram is pretty futile…but these five come close 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇿🇮🇪
Where deserves to be added?
#travelblogshare #travelbloggercommunity
www.someoneelsescountry.com/post/five-un...
Describing anywhere as a hidden gem in the era of Instagram is pretty futile…but these five come close 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇿🇮🇪
Where deserves to be added?
#travelblogshare #travelbloggercommunity
www.someoneelsescountry.com/post/five-un...
May 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New #travelblog - 5 Thoroughly Underrated European cities!
Describing anywhere as a hidden gem in the era of Instagram is pretty futile…but these five come close 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇿🇮🇪
Where deserves to be added?
#travelblogshare #travelbloggercommunity
www.someoneelsescountry.com/post/five-un...
Describing anywhere as a hidden gem in the era of Instagram is pretty futile…but these five come close 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇿🇮🇪
Where deserves to be added?
#travelblogshare #travelbloggercommunity
www.someoneelsescountry.com/post/five-un...
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Still psychologically difficult for me to create files whose names have spaces in them, even for use cases where I am extremely confident that using spaces will never cause any problems.
May 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Still psychologically difficult for me to create files whose names have spaces in them, even for use cases where I am extremely confident that using spaces will never cause any problems.
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I genuinely believe we'll have a much better time in the next two decades if intelligent people who are critical of AI move their focus to regulatory and IP issues and away from chameleon arguments about capabilities
May 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I genuinely believe we'll have a much better time in the next two decades if intelligent people who are critical of AI move their focus to regulatory and IP issues and away from chameleon arguments about capabilities
Amazing
Last year a bunch of the Epic Games Technical Artists had a summit at HQ and we had the opportunity to take a 360 photo in the single most appropriate place you could take a 360 photo of Unreal Engine Technical Artists. Importing it into the editor as my default felt strangely wholesome.
May 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Amazing
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I love images like this. It doesn't matter who you are as a #gamedev, everyone starts in a corner of a bedroom with nothing but passion, a dream and lots of hours at the computer.
May 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I love images like this. It doesn't matter who you are as a #gamedev, everyone starts in a corner of a bedroom with nothing but passion, a dream and lots of hours at the computer.
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I think one of the less-named problems of intergenerational third space death is, there are a whole lot of adults for whom children are basically theoretical entities.
They have memories of interacting with children AS children, but no sense of what it means to be an adult in community with them.
They have memories of interacting with children AS children, but no sense of what it means to be an adult in community with them.
May 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I think one of the less-named problems of intergenerational third space death is, there are a whole lot of adults for whom children are basically theoretical entities.
They have memories of interacting with children AS children, but no sense of what it means to be an adult in community with them.
They have memories of interacting with children AS children, but no sense of what it means to be an adult in community with them.
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I think it's reasonable to look to a section of our industry that manages to reasonably consistently release feature complete and documented software (i.e. video games), and recently I've been thinking that the steam model might work better than the github one for open source.
May 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I think it's reasonable to look to a section of our industry that manages to reasonably consistently release feature complete and documented software (i.e. video games), and recently I've been thinking that the steam model might work better than the github one for open source.
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I've been wanting to build something like this for a while – a machine translator that leaves the original text in place but annotates "less common" words with a translation. Had never gotten it to work decently, but Gemini 2.5 Pro does it pretty well after some prompt engineering.
May 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I've been wanting to build something like this for a while – a machine translator that leaves the original text in place but annotates "less common" words with a translation. Had never gotten it to work decently, but Gemini 2.5 Pro does it pretty well after some prompt engineering.
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Yes. Not just worthy volunteering either but fun stuff. This is one reason why I am proud of my friends who put on day parties, record fairs, mini festivals and all that: it is setting an example, showing that life is more than your phone and the gym, and that culture is something you DO.
Think my new provocative bit might be saying "if you want to give young people something to belong to, middle aged men need to get off their phones and start running stuff in their community".
May 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Yes. Not just worthy volunteering either but fun stuff. This is one reason why I am proud of my friends who put on day parties, record fairs, mini festivals and all that: it is setting an example, showing that life is more than your phone and the gym, and that culture is something you DO.