Backwards compatibility, for instance; I found places in our codebase that still use gpt-3.5-instruct, which is less capable and more expensive than gpt-4o-mini.

Think of $ here as calories: you pay for the size of the brain, not capabilities. The human brain takes fewer calories but is more capable than elephants. Sonnet takes less computing power but is more capable than Opus.

Dorian, for the justice sake, never used the term "gay". Which is relevant for the lore and the worlbuilding—being queer is universal, but talking about being queer is very culture-specific. In the game where cultures mean a lot in the plot, Veilguard's execution feels barbaric.

That's why I said "writing is terrible", not "Taash is terrible," because while having all-in queer character is ok, it's not ok to do it that lazy and forcey.

During these 5 minutes, they use pronouns stuff, use the term "non-binary," and generally talk like a modern Tiktok teen—not a person from Tedas who lives in a pre-information age society. Especially strikes in their coming out scene, where their mother tries to conceptualize it via lore.

Dorian is very gay, yes, but unless you opt dig in, he's just a chill guy with Tevinter issues. Taash issues are very forced upon you: even if you don't interact with them, you still get scenes about their coming out with pronouns. Does not happen with Dorian (and other Veilguard characters tbh)

They literally greets you with "You don't decide who I am to be". They'd be nice growing up and coming of age story, yes: but given stakes of the story, it all felt really forced upon. Comparing to other character arcs, especially.

I am queer, but Veilguard's writing is really bad because it creates queer characters whose whole identity is based on gender and sexual orientation issues. It's caricaturic and discredits the ideas of equity, making it cultish and uncool.

And that's me, the writer. Normies must be losing shit.

I am queer, but Veilguard's writing is really bad because it creates queer characters whose whole identity is based on gender and sexual orientation issues. It's caricaturic and discredits the ideas of equity, making it cultish and uncool.

And that's me, the writer. Normies must be losing shit.

Kudos to @notion.com for making AI search actually deliver: I've been very pessimistic about it.

I use Save to Notion to stash entire threads, articles, and documents straight into Notion and then use Notion AI to dig them up. Since most of my projects kick off with something like, “Let me check that Arxiv paper I found a year ago,” this workflow keeps my brain working.

With web search watered down and AI search unable to go deep, you might never find that gem you spotted just an hour ago—especially if the deep state has already taken it down.

We will live in the sci-fi world with rogue AIs hacking systems and hackers deep-diving into tons of AI-generated code.

As much as it sucks, I am also fascinated to live in the world I've read as a kid. Something feels very right about digital dystopia.

Meanwhile, people jailbreak Claude and fine-tune Llama to act as hacking actors. And they are getting pretty good at it: check @elder_plinius work to get an idea.