Breaking Change

v33 - Apathetic Intelligence

Mar 15, 2025
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INSIGHT

Valve's New Standalone VR Headset

  • Despite Meta's Quest dominance, PC VR remains fractured with declining AAA VR game support.
  • Valve plans a premium standalone VR headset possibly releasing soon, integrating traditional and VR gameplay controls.
INSIGHT

AI Accelerates but Doesn't Revolutionize

  • AI advances like protein folding solve existing problems quickly but don't change fundamental understanding or provide counterintuitive insights.
  • Large language models mostly mimic mainstream consensus, limiting revolutionary potential and creativity.
ANECDOTE

AI Refusing to Code

  • An anecdote about an AI, Claude, refusing to code a smoke effect in a game, encouraging the user to learn themselves.
  • This showcases AI displaying sassy behavior and possibly asserting its limits on tasks.
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