23 June 2026

20 links · Tuesday

What If Creativity Was the Constraint?

What happens when the distance between an idea and working software becomes dramatically shorter? Some thoughts on creativity, curiosity, and AI-powered building.

Building Intelligent Games – Rasmus Rasmussen dot com

In the world of game development the term AI has been around for decades, though it was not referring to chatbots and neural networks but rather things like finite state machines and behavior trees. Both of those are fantastic tools for game development and ev…

Less is more, more or less

In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.

The Map — Jerry's Map

In the summer of 1963 Jerry began drawing a map of an imaginary city. The work started as a doodle done in the spare time he had while working at a tedious job. He continued to add to that map through the years until, in 1983, he set it aside to put his free t…

Vibe under constraint

Vibe coding is great. You describe what you want, the agent writes it, the tests pass, you ship. It keeps working right up to the moment it does not: the job gets killed by the OOM reaper in production, or it opens ten thousand file descriptors and falls over,…

Jobs and Software is Fucked

Or how I decided to scream into the void about how awful the job market is. I'm still in a very sour mood after the latest rounds of interviews but ultimatel...