I didn't get this at all from the parent. They're simply stating that LLMs aren't entirely trustworthy, and that the responsibility is ultimately ours, not the LLM's.

Pretty neat, but not something new.

With AI, I now have tools to analyze recorded demos from quake 3 and pull metadata from them, match them against recorded match statistics, and most importantly, split a large multi-match demo file into multiple separate matches/files which are all self-contained.

Doing this required the LLM to review the source for q3 to determine how to re-create gamestate and correct various aspects that were non-trivial due to huffman encoding.

I also patched the server to be able to stream demos to attached clients, so multiple people can watch a demo simultaneously. It can now seamlessly switch between demo-playing and game-serving. I've had multiple PRs to the main repo merged for this.

All these are far, far beyond my ability to do by myself, and none of these features/functions were really available in 2026. There are some long-abandoned demo tools out there, but they either don't work, don't compile, or otherwise are windows-only. My demo tools are python, and of course the q3 server code is c++.

These aren't great new things. They're not ground-breaking. They're merely new things I made for me and my friends. And I think it's great.

I agree. Aside from emergencies or other truly circumstance-changing news, I am not sure there's really any value in being immediately informed vs. days or perhaps even weeks later. I just hadn't thought in these terms before.

I can't help but imagine how much healthier our society would be...

For me, it's "I can do this now; yesterday I could not."

I am not a developer - I am a hack with some experience in a smattering of languages who hits very real obstacles very quickly. AI has allowed me to overcome those obstacles and build things that literally I could not do before.

Yesterday I could not differentiate quake 3 matches within a single demo file.

Today I can split them into separate files and have the server stream them to me so I can watch them on demand.

When I say personnel constraints, I mean there are almost not enough people to do the work that needs to be done.

When I say budget constraints, I mean the budgets and projects are funded so lean, that they're always having to cut sections out of projects to get what they can done with the budget they're given.

I have no idea where you've gotten this idea that the waste in government is from employing too many people, but in the areas I am familiar with, it's nowhere close to an accurate read.

The stark difference is that THAT effort was handled with careful planning and through the proper channels. The way any mature, thoughtful, and responsible person would approach something like this.

One thing has been made very clear with Trump's terms - if there is no detailed plan on how they intend to do something, it's going to be a disaster. You can't just wing things and expect everything to work out.

Unless you just want to disrupt, punish, hurt, etc., in which case this is working as planned...which some may claim was the actual plan all along.

Also I’m sure they’d be hit with a class-action lawsuit immediately if they tried it. Manufacturers sell a lot of cars which would lead to a lot of pissed off owners.

Imagine if your ten year old car hasn’t seen an infotainment update in four+ years. Or if you want to buy used.

Personally I’d much prefer my phone. It’s baked into Apple/Google ‘s business model to keep it up to date.

Also I only need my phone’s subscription, not an additional one with the auto manufacturer.

From TFA (well, blog):

> The long and the short of it it is that across about 36 hours of work and what would have been $650 of unsubsidized token spend, our Anthropic eval benchmarks were looking like we'd reduced wall-clock runtime for Superpowers builds by 50% and token spend by 60%.

100%. They're easily the gold standard for emulation and open-source gaming...and possibly open-source projects in general.

The effort they put into the announcements is frankly amazing and shows what a labor of love this project is.

I really don't know why business cozies up to Trump so much, given how unbelievably unreliable and mercurial he is about...everything.