Danny Day

@dislekcia

IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ brown belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African. he/him

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Danny Day@dislekcia· 1d

Here's what the falcon sounds like, between construction noises.

Danny Day@dislekcia· 1d

Taking a moment to bask in the sun in the garden, joining approx 15 lizards and the peregrine falcon that roosts next door.

A garden path that I benefit from unfairly, given how much effort my wife has put in vs my own.

A corner of a house with 15 lizards on it. I counted them.

A long distance phone shot of a peregrine falcon roosting on a branch of a cook's pine, bonus raven in shot for scale.

Danny Day@dislekcia· 15d

Got me a stripe today!

Danny Day@dislekcia· 27d

Cloners always resort to this category error soft-brain bullshit. Those aren't the same as directly copying someone's work you saw, asshole.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jul 7

If anyone's curious about my current inline road setup: Powerslide Nexts with 125mm 83A Micro wheels. Good for the surfaces here but we don't go downhill in these, nope.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jul 7

Time off marred by some dentistry, so took the opportunity for a skate where the fancy people live.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jul 4

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jun 29

The follow up research that earned the Nobel established that it's the ramp, not the skater. Also usually Tony would have said he lands fakie, but he's grown into his role as a science communicator and tries to avoid jargon. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/720_o... xkcd.com/3264

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jun 19

Ridiculous city, whose fault is this?

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jun 8

Cleaning up some space on my dev machine and found this banger that cheered me up when we launched Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. Plaguey01 might not be bilingual, but they're definitely a poet.

Screenshot of a comment by Plaguey01:
wow this is actual desktop dungeons I remember playing the shit out of this in french class when my highschool gave out laptops, I traded being bilingual for this.

Danny Day@dislekcia· May 31

Danny Day@dislekcia· May 26

Windows 10 too. Settings > Devices > Typing > Typing insights... Fuck off with this shit pls.

Danny Day@dislekcia· May 7

Great armor spawn in this office park.

Danny Day@dislekcia· May 5

Here's a step by step guide to stop Chrome trying to use the 4GB local AI model it secretly downloads: 1. Go to chrome://settings/system and disable "On-device AI" 2. Go to chrome://flags and disable all the flags in the 2nd and 3rd images. 3. Delete the model folder from your Chrome user data.

Screenshot of Chrome's Settings menu, showing the system sub-menu with the "On-device AI" option that's enabled by default. Turn that shit off.

Chrome's Flags settings menu (chrome://flags) showing the following features you need to disable to prevent it using the local Gemini model:
1. Enables Optimization Guide On Device
2. Prompt API for Gemini Nano
3. Prompt API for Gemini Nano with Multimodal Input
4. Writer API for Gemini Nano

(list continues in next image)

List of flags to disable local Gemini model usage in Chrome continues:
5. Rewriter API for Gemini Nano
6. Proofreader API for Gemini Nano
7. Summarizer API with Performance Preference
8. Summarizer API for Gemini Nano
9. LiteRT-LM for On-Device AI

Set all of these to disabled.

Danny Day@dislekcia· May 4

Welp, time to get angry at Unity as a corporate entity again. Great decision, may it Riccitiello you all. Anyone who wants this shouldn't be trying to make games, go prompt your way to fintech billions like all the other slop visionaries.

Screenshot of an email from info@unity3d.com saying:

Hi,

Unity AI Assistant Open Beta is now live, and as a Unity license holder, you're already covered. You don't need a trial, and you won't be charged separately - your monthly credits are included as part of your existing Unity subscription.

Get started now:
Install Unity AI Assistant

Credits refresh automatically every month. If you use them up before the month resets, you can purchase additional top-up bundles at any time from the Unity Dashboard.

Questions? Browse our documentation.

- The Unity Team

Danny Day@dislekcia· Apr 22

Hell yeah, made it!

Danny Day@dislekcia· Apr 21

In conclusion: Please don't argue with me about AI. I'd rather make games. Huge thanks (and condolences) to neuromatch.social/@jonny for their fascinating spelunking through the source.

Slide that simply says:
Please don't argue with me about AI
I'd rather make games

Danny Day@dislekcia· Apr 21

Also spoke about how terribly KAIROS is architected, how great it is that agents have to police other agents finishing their tasks, how agents hallucinating the outputs of their sub-agents is so common there's explicit prompts about it, and how the LLM can hallucinate tool commands that don't exist.

Slide titled "Agents: KAIROS!" showing an image from @jonny@neuromatch.social's feed detailing how Claude Code checks to see if KAIROS is active. The slide has the following bullet points:
- No standard way to check if it’s running
- At least 14 different ways to check if it’s on
- Each with fallbacks and different fail states

Slide titled "Agents: Sub-Agents" showing a screenshot of Claude Code's source that describes a method used by one agent to police the completion of another agent. Areas of the screenshot highlighted in pink to show how this simply doesn't get reported back to the user if it fails, and to draw attention to a variable named "AnalyticsMetadata_I_VERIFIED_THIS_IS_NOT_CODE_OR_FILEPATHS" in a futile attempt to make the LLM verify that this error does not contain code or filepaths.

Slide titled "Agents: Hallucinations" showing a screenshot of Claude Code's source that contains prompts that say "**Don't peek.** The tool result includes an output_file path - do not head or tail it unless the user explicitly asks for a progress check. You get a completion notification; trust it. Reading the transcript mid-flight pulls the fork's tool noise into your context, which defeats the point of forking."
and
"**Don't race.** After launching, you know nothing about what the fork found. Never fabricate or predict fork results in any format - not as prose, summary, or structured output. The notification arrives as a user-role message in a later turn; it is never something you write yourself. If the user asks a follow-up before the notification lands, tell them the fork is still running - give status, not a guess."

Slide titled "Agents: Hallucinated Tools" showing a screenshot of the regex code used by Claude Code's "Tool Search Tool" to attempt to find tools that are described in LLM output but may not exist. The slide has the following bullet points:
- Searches tools via regex
- Can return false positives
- So a hallucinated tool might actually trigger something completely different
- Also, tools can be injected via <system-reminder>

Danny Day@dislekcia· Apr 21

Gave a talk about what we can learn from the Claude Code leak at our local gamedev meetup. Covered security leaks, why prompts aren't code, why LLMs can't search reliably and how AI generated code creates incredibly fragile blind bucket chains of data.

Slide titled "Prompts: Security vulnerabilities", showing a screenshot of Claude Code's source describing a method that retrieves Oauth and API keys from an insecure known file location. There's pink handwriting over the screenshot showing how a malicious user could spoof access.

Slide titled "Prompts: WTF" with a list of points
- Prompts. Aren't. Code.
- They’re statistical weights fed into the LLM
- They may be written in the form of commands, but they’re not, they just change what’s likely to come out of the model
- They’re not followed, they’re smushed together into the next piece of text
This is key to how LLM’s work!

Slide titled "Complexity: Object impermanence" illustrating how LLMs are terrible at exhaustive search and there's no such thing as an LLM searching through your code-base. The slide is showing a picture of the "They're the same picture" meme. The two pictures are pixelated into illegibility. There are pink scribbles on Pam's eyes to indicate that she's an LLM, and pink handwriting over the meme's "They're same picture" text that says "They both make me say the same thing!" - which is a very different function.

Slide titled "Complexity: Blind bucket chains" covered in a ridiculous scribbled drawing of data access in a hypothetical stick figure FPS game to illustrate how repeated LLM code edits hook into the first matching data source they find, leaving a complex network of fragile interlinks that's prone to breaking more and more as a project expands.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Apr 2

Thunder is making our dog so anxious that she's climbed up onto my desk in the middle of the night. She's never done anything like this before.

A small dog standing on a mousepad at the edge of an otherwise normal work desk.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jan 10

Things being fixed this weekend: - A stuck button in a switch controller. - Ducky's cut hat strap.

A disassembled 3rd party Switch controller next to the ancient Logitech controller that donated a heavy duty membrane spring (visible as the white rubber on the Switch controller contact board)

A stuffed duck toy having a hat ribbon amatuerishly stitched back onto it. The ribbon was initially cut due to "looseness", so the inexpert stitcher is aiming for a tighter fit.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jan 3

Train continued!

Danny Day@dislekcia· Jan 3

Train train train train!

Danny Day@dislekcia· Dec 26

Taunted yet again. Skates aren't even coming along this trip...

Danny Day@dislekcia· Dec 14

Our dog has had a long and trying morning.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Dec 6

Personell Touch has been busy all day, very rare for a game you have to get into and out of.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Dec 5

Lucked into capturing Personnel Touch randomly generating a sequence of all the same colour, hah!

Danny Day@dislekcia· Dec 4

My alt-ctrl game of playing twister on someone else's labcoat while they do the same to you, Personnel Touch, is at Playtopia this weekend! Come and participate in our patented Adversarial Hiring Process for Premium Jobs! Do not unionize! Be a good worker!

Danny Day@dislekcia· Nov 29

I'm officially a brown belt now! Any pointers on what warmups even are would be appreciated.

Danny Day@dislekcia· Nov 12

Nice.