FIND ME: https://teapawt.org/t.co/OuViKiLZoL Inventor of Free-to-Play. Game dev. Frogdice CEO (video games), College professor.
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Yet another ACTUAL CODER who nails it 100%.
"Real programmers don't use AI."
Real programmers didn't use compilers either. Real programmers wrote assembly.
Then real programmers didn't use high level languages.
Then real programmers didn't use Stack Overflow.
Then real programmers didn't use libraries they hadn't written themselves.
Every one of those "real programmers" got replaced by someone who shipped faster.
The job was never typing code.
The job was making software that works.
If you're still proud of the typing part, I have bad news about where this is going.
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Hartman's AI Axiom - To AI or not to AI?
As a tool to help a human work more effectively? "Yes."
As a replacement for human thought, decision making, or creativity? "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
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Professor Hartman 🇺🇦 retweeted
MASSIVE BOMBSHELL: DAN GOLDMAN UNLEASHES TRUTH!
Congressman Goldman just went live with FBI 302 receipts. Evidence shows Trump unzipped his pants, forced a 13-year-old’s head down, and when she bit his p*nis in self-defense, he punched her and called her a "B."
The FBI interviewed her FOUR times while the case was buried. Pam Bondi lied to Congress, claiming “no evidence” of these crimes while sitting on files describing this exact assault. This is perjury and a cover-up for a predator.
You don’t get to "save the kids" while your AG hides files of a child being beaten for fighting back. History will remember the enablers.
We stand with the children who bit back.
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Wow. This... 🥹 @ishowspeedsui
IShowSpeed just won Streamer of the Year for the third year in a row, walked up to the mic in Los Angeles, and gave his whole speech in Indonesian.
He's from Cincinnati. The reason goes back to one night in Jakarta in 2024, when he was 19 and started crying on camera.
He was on his Southeast Asia tour, walking around Jakarta live, and the viewer count kept climbing until 1,043,028 people were watching at the same time. No English-language streamer had ever done that. He'd set his personal record in Thailand about a week earlier, and Jakarta beat it by around 70%.
So last night, holding the trophy, he gave the moment back to them.
He opened with "Aku mulai dari nol." I started from zero. Anyone who's ever pulled into a gas station in Indonesia knows that line, because it's what the Pertamina attendant says before almost every fill-up to show you the pump starts at zero.
The money side of this is what I keep thinking about.
YouTube pays creators way less for an Indonesian view than an American one. Roughly a sixth, depending on the category. If you ran Speed's channel off a spreadsheet, you'd keep him home chasing American viewers.
He kept getting on planes instead. Seven countries in Southeast Asia in 2024, and more than 20 countries this year, including Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt back in January. An ad buyer calls those places cheap traffic, and he treated every one like a home game.
His channel had about 30 million subscribers the week he landed in Jakarta. It has 62.3 million now.
Turns out a country that feels seen gives you something ad rates can't measure. A million people show up live, all at once, and that kind of crowd is what lands you a Super Bowl ad and a World Cup tour across the US.
So he spent the biggest speech of his year on the viewers who earn him the least per view, and 32 million new subscribers later, it's hard to argue with the math.
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MyState vs YourState dick measuring contests are lame to start, and even lamer in the context of sports discussions. But this guy adds clueless and wrong to his lameness so I'll finish it.
Count past 7? I'll double it.
EDUCATION:
1) Georgia has THREE universities ranked above the best school in Utah. U.S. News 2027: Emory #23, Georgia Tech #29, UGA #52. Utah's best is BYU at #116. Your flagship, the University of Utah, is #179. UGA beats it by 127 spots.
2) Utah spent the least per K-12 student of any state for over twenty years. In 2023 it was still second to last.
FOOTBALL:
3) National championships: Georgia 3. Utah 0.
4) SEC championships: Georgia 16. Utah 0.
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BUSINESS:
5) Georgia has been named the #1 state for business 13 years in a row by Area Development. Utah isn't in the top 10.
6) Georgia just set a record: $35.2 billion in new business investment in one fiscal year. Utah: $20.2 billion.
7) Georgia's economy: $882.5 billion. Utah's: $300.9 billion. Georgia's economy is nearly 3 times the size of Utah's entire state.
8) Fortune 500 headquarters: metro Atlanta has 15. Utah has zero.
9) Atlanta has the busiest airport in the world: 106.3 million passengers in 2025. Salt Lake City's airport ranks 98th in the world.
QUALITY OF LIFE:
10) U.S. News Best Places to Live 2026-2027: Atlanta #542. Salt Lake City #559. Your "infinitely better" city loses to Atlanta in the most famous quality-of-life ranking in America. It's not even top 10 in Utah.
11) Georgia has a city ranked #5 in the entire country (Johns Creek). Salt Lake City didn't make the top 250.
AIR AND ENVIRONMENT:
12) American Lung Association 2026: Salt Lake County had 81 unhealthy air days. Fulton County, home of Atlanta, had 19. Salt Lake City has more than 4 times as many bad air days.
13) Short-term particle pollution grade, same report: Salt Lake County F. Fulton County B.
14) Your lake is drying up and blowing lakebed dust over the city, and the state still can't tell you what's in it.
Infinitely better? Nah.
Here’s the thing. I genuinely don’t care what any Georgia fan thinks. Your life in Salt Lake City is infinitely (that means a lot, Georgia fans) better than a life in backwoods Georgia with a car parked on your lawn. Oh you’ve won a lot of football games? We can count past 7.
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This person is throwing a tantrum.
1) Nobody appointed them spokesman for ~4 billion gamers worldwide.
2) Every engine, every storefront, and most middleware already does, or soon will use AI.
This is a meaningless demand because innovations this good are unstoppable.
This is an outrageous lie. It was generative AI. It was an LLM chatbot employed as a code assistant. LLMs are generative: they generate text. And nobody wants genAI in games in any capacity, not even "a little bit" or for sufficiently "mundane" tasks.
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Get rid of these corporate republican bums from the 1990s.
Some facts:
1 - 84% of Democrats support Medicare for All - Schumer & Jeffries oppose
2 - 73% of Democrats want to abolish ICE- Schumer & Jeffries support ICE
3 - 72% of Democrats want to end or decrease aid to Israel - Schumer & Jeffries support more aid
Do we need these guys? NO
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Who elected this person to speak on behalf of gamers? Or game developers.
"I intend to make games in the future and am slowly building the skills to do so."
Oh. LOL! It's one of those.
I refuse to believe these people are real.
None of them are educated, because obviously this IS still GenAI??
And we dont want anybody using GenAI AT ALL. IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT TASKS ITS FOR. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF ITS "MUNDANE" WE DO NOT WANT IT USED AT ALL.
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Professor Hartman 🇺🇦 retweeted
Save Jensen.
This would be an Apple firing Steve Jobs level of idiocy from NVIDIA’s board if they did that, and a grievous harm to the United States of America.
The dude truly is the visionary driver of the future of tech from the gaming GPU era to CUDA to AI supercomputers.
Breaking: Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. on.wsj.com/4jcpr01
Professor Hartman 🇺🇦 retweeted
Georgia’s “bad” loss to then 11-1 Alabama by 3 points in the 2023 SECCG dropped them from #1 to #6, knocking them out of the playoff and costing Georgia a shot at a 3-peat.
They were on a 29-game winning streak.
But please, tell me more about SEC bias.
Ohio State’s “bad” loss in 2017 kept them out of a playoff they would have won. Georgia gets a bad loss and straight to #1 like it didn’t happen. SEC bias
Professor Hartman 🇺🇦 retweeted
As someone who's spent 30 years writing game engines, I'm confused by all the outrage over #AISlop.
Where were you all when Unity and Unreal unleashed #EngineSlop on the world?
You're not a REAL game developer unless you write your own engine! 😉
See how ridiculous that sounds?
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Consumers: Stop being upset when a gigantic monopoly might leave your market. Rejoice. Maybe we will get 2 or 3 actual competitors now.
Also, how much better do we really need graphics to get? We long since passed the "good enough" point here.
Let big companies die. Let big companies leave your market. Someone else will come along who is probably going to care more about your intrerests and needs.
On rigole de Jensen mais on est morts les gamers.
La seule raison pour laquelle Nvidia continuait à produire des RTX pour les particuliers, c’était grâce à lui qui voulait permettre à tout le monde d’en avoir.
Depuis que l’IA représente quasiment tout son chiffre d’affaires, Nvidia n’a plus de raison d’en produire pour nous et gagnerai bien plus à focus uniquement les pro.
Maintenant qu’il n’est plus là, considérez votre RTX comme de l'or.
It is amazing to watch people who have utterly NO FUCKING CLUE about software development authoritatively say they find it "hard to believe" a huge bug was ultimately solved in a surprisingly "easy" way despite it confounding many experts.
Buddy, that's the story beind almost EVERY legendary bug in software and game development - pre or post AI.
For the nerds/engineers:
Chalk Mark: $1.
Knowing where to put it: $9,999.
For everyone else: The last piece of a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle is pretty easy. Does that make the whole thing easy?
I’m gonna be real I find it hard to believe a dev team of many years and >1 unity engineers deemed a bug unfixable and then said bug was cracked by a rando in a few hours
Excuses don’t matter to me when the “tool” they’re using is at its core, harmful and unethical.
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We also made video games just fine before:
- GitHub.
- IDEs like VS Code.
- Engines and middleware. Every game had to reinvent the wheel. Repeatedly.
- Stack Overflow.
- YouTube.
- Graphics APIs (DirectX, OpenGL, etc). Before that, every game wrote special code to the hardware for every card.
- Open source libraries like Lua.
- Debuggers and profilers.
- Photoshop, Procreate, Blender, and more.
- Compilers. GG Assembly.
Every one of these took care of a "boring part" and made the process of making games better. Experience and ingenuity continued to thrive as you could focus them on bigger and better things.
Professor Hartman 🇺🇦 retweeted
INCREDIBLY stupid take. a majority of code trained on is under permissive licensing and/or open source. We WANT you to use our code! There are limited numbers of solutions to a programming problem. There are an infinite number of ways to paint an apple. Dont gen an apple. Simple
People seriously have no idea how AI works, and it really is showing with this whole Big Walk controversy.
GenAI. Generative AI. It is trained on huge amounts of data to generate something new.
Whether it is code, music, art or video, it is ALL trained on something.
If you think AI Art is theft, then you must also accept that AI Coding is also theft, as it "stole" from all the code it was trained on.
You cannot allow one and not the other because it was all trained the same way.
This is the bed YOU made. We kept telling you not to make it, but you insisted.
So now lay in it.
If you're against one form of GenAI, you are against ALL GenAI. Even if that only adds 10 lines of code. By your own logic, those 10 lines of code were stolen off the backs of the programmers whose code was used to train the AI.
This entire thread is something...
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想想这样女人何其多。
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Professor Hartman 🇺🇦 retweeted
.@getnickwright tells @Timodc why a private admission from Clay Travis 11 years ago destroyed his respect for him:
“If what you’re saying is true, that you don’t really believe what you’re saying, it’s just for audience and enrichment, I actually think that’s worse.”
Professor Hartman 🇺🇦 retweeted
You not the only person he told either. What a lying loser. teapawt.org/lebatardshowfan/status…
