Sebastiano Mandalà

I finally completed the brush-up of the articles I wrote over the last 10 years! With this 🧵, I am going to present them 1 by 1 as they will be worthy of attention for a while. This exercise has been cathartic for me and I hope it can deserve your RT or share. #gamedev #coding

@peevishdave Yes I'll try 😄

@sebify have you seen the guy that trained the AI to talk like a caveman to spare tokens?

So annoying that the tokens consumed change so drastically according to how you interact with AI - Long discussions (on the same topic) and long lived sessions (on the same topic): millions of tokens - Ask to write memory, start new sessions often, compact context: never ending

@OfficialTozzi @LaStampa Bisogna combattere l'ignoranza

Ho fatto presente su @LaStampa che ci sono seri motivi a causa dei quali in Italia il nucleare non tornerà, nonostante le dichiarazioni di principio, e a prescindere dalla mia opinione. Il primo è che lo dovresti imporre manu militari, perché nessuno lo vuole nel suo territorio.

@JamesCleverly @Conservatives We already had the stamp duty break remember? And do you remember what happened with that ?

Rachel Reeves thought that bringing more homes into the Stamp Duty bracket would raise more tax. It didn’t Stamp Duty is a bad tax, it stifles mobility and punishes aspiration. @Conservatives will scrap it for primary homes. telegraph.co.uk/money/property…

The judge of this case is obviously a moron. The girls will be scarred for life and the boys will just walk away with their trophies news.sky.com/story/attorney…

I am not anti-AI per se, but the trailer is awkward. Well it's a start youtube.com/watch?v=CVzfQu…

we all know that :)

@snlehton nope

@sebify Have you tried SmartGit?

ok I changed my mind on git fork, the latest version have some QoL features on squashing that make it incredibly useful

tested codex for a while again to see if it consumes less token than opencode when using gpt (it does not) and running back to open code. Codex permission system is a total mess!

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

Big upgrade to Unity VFX Graph MCP workflow: 🥳 → Visual stepped builds — watch the graph assemble in the editor, step by step. → Vision plans — describe effects in JSON, import to .vfx → MCP dashboard — live bridge status, TCP ping, activity log →Vision plans (*.vision.json) describe spawn → init → update → output: blocks, operators, exposed params, canvas groups. Validate in CLI → import with visual backtrack. Shader Graph bridge on the same stack. #Unity3D #VFX #gamedev #ShaderGraph #GameDev #MCP #madewithunity #shader

@aruvinchan The us have incredible natural parks to visit.

I think Europeans take for granted living in Europe. You can just buy a ticket on a whim to fly to Greece, Italy, France, England, Slovenia, Croatia, Malta, whatever takes your fancy, for a quick weekend getaway. Often for really cheap too via Ryanair, like way cheaper than Spirit was. I just bought a ticket to Rome from Barcelona for ~€40. 🤯 And you don't even need a passport. Many Europeans don't even have a passport due to the Schengen Area. In the US, if you fly 3 hours away, you end up in freaking Topeka, Kansas with nothing to do. In Europe, you could end up in the Swiss Alps, the Mediterranean coast, quaint Italian towns, French vineyards, the Eiffel Tower, the freaking Colosseum, etc. etc.

@BladeoftheS Whatever geopolitical situation that affected the UK, affected the rest of Europe. So yeah I'd say brexit and Boris Johnson damage. This is what happens when the populism wins, let's not make the same mistake again with reform UK.

Before Brexit the UK was the 5th cheapest for Food in Europe. Now we are 25/28. And it is not just Brexit that has done that, the Supermarkets are ripping you off as well.

@opencode what? in opencode go?

Gemini 3.5 Flash now available in OpenCode - very fast - 1M context - priced similarly to GLM, Kimi, and DeepSeek Pro

and not one star in the sky! (also I saw the trailer and i looked ridicolous, almost embarassing)

ok but why?

Are you an instead of or rather than person ?

The world is cursed by people that still defend Trump. They are the reason the world goes to shit. I would be merciless against them.

@TomK_Brit1993 as Italian with double citizenship, I'd say partially. First the EU must sort its shit out, then yes.

Would you support Britain rejoining the EU?