Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

VP of Eng @ Chronicle Studios | ex-Google medium.com/@jengas SF Bay Area Joined February 2024

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

5 hours ago

@kimmonismus I love this model, but tokens seem to completely evaporate in just a few minutes

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

6 hours ago

play it yourself, free & open source: josh-english-2k18.github.io/webgl-games/as…

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Grok 4.5 dropped, so I gave it my one-shot test: build a self-contained Asteroids game in WebGL. It didn’t just reproduce Asteroids. It turned it into third-person combat around the ring of a gas giant, where you magnetically tether rocks, sling them into each other, and turn their mass into a weapon. The interesting benchmark is no longer whether a frontier model can make a game. It’s if it can find the game inside the prompt.

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

6 hours ago

@BrainEngineer @sammysintech 😅

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

10 hours ago

@BrainEngineer @sammysintech I doubt the permits would be attainable in a reasonable timeframe and budget

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

4 days ago

@Nerdrotics If they make less than $600M, it's clearly in loss territory. The question is: will that be counted as a loss?

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

6 days ago

@kimmonismus Optical memory is a cool idea, I haven't seen it really work in a frontier scenario yet

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

a week ago

@haider1 Is it exponential thinking or simply a lack of abundance mindset?

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

a week ago

@signulll culture is the arbiter of how technology is used, and X is the jury deliberating it in real time

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

a week ago

@tunguz Greatest? Lol

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

a week ago

I've been testing frontier model performance with a one-shot Asteroids benchmark. Nate grabbed one of my test results and instantly made it online real-time multiplayer. The question of who can make entertainment with AI is obsolete. Now it's all about who has the best idea, and how fast can they get it playable with real people?

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

a week ago

@Devon_Eriksen_ Approaching the problem from lower in the stack strips away symbolic references (that are useful for humans) and optimizes for performance in a machine-centric way. Fascinating idea, especially given current model's verbosity bias

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

2 weeks ago

@pmarca the operative term in "...catch up soon" is: soon = several years

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

2 weeks ago

@pmarca So many good things from the 90s aren't around anymore

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Josh English @JoshSeriesAI

2 weeks ago

Was AI involved in making this game? Of course it was. Modern game development already happens inside an AI-saturated toolchain: search, email, documents, spreadsheets, code assistants, asset tools, localization pipelines, analytics, and even the game engines themselves. No serious studio is building clean rooms where developers are forbidden from using modern search, productivity software, IDEs, or engine tooling. So tagging a game on Steam does not reflect reality. Instead of asking if AI touched the game, the better question is where AI entered the chain, what it produced, whether that output shipped, who approved it, and whether the player experience depends on it. An AI-assisted workflow is not the same as AI-generated shipped content. AI-generated shipped content is not the same as live AI runtime generation. And live AI runtime generation is not the same as building an entire game around AI as a design pillar. Those are different creative, legal, ethical, and commercial questions. We do not need AI disclosure. Because “was AI involved?” is already obsolete. Of course it was.