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I agree on all except for your comment on attention and focus. They've seem to be very scattered in their deployment of AI for customers. Examples in point being the replacement of Google Assistant with Gemini, the AI Studio vs Vertex disconnect, and a crazy amount of coding tools and platforms (Duet, Firebase Studio, Studio Bot, etc).

Working through this as a consumer and enterprise customer has been a confusing experience, to say the least.

At the 60 person smb (travel industry) I work we've taken web development in house for the first time, created new user experiences that sat on our roadmap for years, created custom AI solutions on top of our Fresh desk tooling, and (predictably) created a number of internal productivity tools.

The actual bottom line result is very fuzzy. Cost are shifting, by spending less on agencies but in return opening up new positions or shuffling people internally.

We don't see a clear increase in revenue, nor can we accurately tie retaining revenue to our AI initiatives.

Workplace satisfaction scores remain similar, with a few outliers (e.g. some people's work got incredibly exciting, while a few others are terrified by all the change).

Time will tell if this all leads to anything meaningful for the business.

The biggest AI bubble seems to be forming within the minds of the people working in SV itself, judging by the talk about the inevitability of AGI, the strong language around fomo (permanent underclass and all that) and the close proximity of the whole ecosystem there.

So wether it's belief in AGI or a desire for building cool stuff, as an outsider looking in, it seems to be informed by the same echo chamber of thought.

Isn't the data that flows through Github so valuable that they (Microsoft) are happy to eat the cost?

I don't have a clear idea how that value can be captured, since it's going to be 90% AI generated code that anyone can scrape (public projects) or can't be used (private projects), so perhaps you're right.

In the Netherlands, there's a single ID you use for all official government services. It's essentially username/password with MFA, issued by the government. What is neat is you can scan your passports NFC chip with your smartphone as a means to verify your identity through this system.

Not sure how it solves any of the data breach issues, though.

This is what working with cloud services is like, in my experience. Azure's UI feels like it was made as a joke flash game on Newgrounds.

I feel Idiocracy is irresistible bait for 'not like the other girls'-types.

Everytime this movie comes up, droves of people mention how they get it, while others don't. It's becoming a trope in itself.

What I find interesting is how AI enthusiasts will recursively offer AI itself as the solution to any of the issues you mention.

Since AI can read and generate code, it can surely fix code, or find bugs, or address security flaws. And if this all turns into a hot mess, AI can just refactor the whole thing anyway. And so forth.

Personally, I think we'll be some years off before the whole software loop is closed by AI (if it even happens anyway).

Could you elaborate in how you've built your own framework for making your monogame project available in web?

I've been using KNI but it's been a real headache getting my game to run on itch.io.

I also want to throw MonoGame into the mix here. Since its purely C#, Claude Code works great for it. It does mean you dont have the visual engine tools you get with Godot, but you could even get Claude to build these for your game.

Im personally finding it a lot of fun to work this way.