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Pirat_Nation 🔴@pirat_nation·376.3K followers·27d ago

AI “vibe coding” is starting to create a serious problem for the video game industry. The release of Claude Opus 5.5 has made it much easier to decompile and recompile games, leading to a wave of unofficial ports, mods and game clones. Publishers are already filing DMCA takedowns over some of this activity. Kotaku Former Take-Two AI chief Luke Dicken says developers and publishers need to take the trend seriously: “This new wave of decompile-and-port is definitely something that developers and publishers need to take seriously.” “More invasive DRM, platform-level solutions, and probably more of a push towards streaming solutions.” Godot executive director Emilio Coppola puts more responsibility on platforms such as Steam, arguing that developers have very few ways to protect themselves while bad actors can profit from selling AI-made clones: “The burden should fall onto the platforms who are enabling this sort of behavior.” There’s also a growing concern among indie developers ab

Pirat_Nation 🔴@pirat_nation·376.3K followers·2d ago

Microsoft has a new tool to help you figure out what’s actually eating your GPU memory. Called gputaskman, it’s a free, open-source project created by Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman. It works like an advanced Task Manager, but runs in your terminal with an htop-style interface. It shows which processes are using your GPU, how much VRAM they’re consuming, GPU activity, temperature, clock speeds and power usage. It also has some interesting features for AI users. It can identify loaded LLMs, their quantization, model weights and estimated KV cache usage, with support for Ollama and LM Studio.

Pirat_Nation 🔴@pirat_nation·376.3K followers·23d ago

Epic Games is hosting the Epic AI MegaJam 2026, a game jam focused on AI-assisted development and vibe coding. From November 12 to 15, teams of up to four people will have a few days to create a game with the help of AI agents. Developers can use Unreal Engine or UEFN and whatever AI tools they want. There’s a $50,000 prize pool, with additional development support for some of the standout projects.