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Jon Valdés

@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place
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At Frostbite rendering team.
Spaniard in Stockholm

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Joined November 13, 2017
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 07, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place

Don't you love it when you try a new miraculous programming tool, it begins by printing out reasonable-looking code, then starts spewing a random French sentence, and finally locks into a single word and spits 4 pages worth of it until it dies?

It's great

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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place
People claim to know other people that have met normies. But have _you_ personally met one? Didn't think so!
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place

Do normies exist, or are they just a myth, like Bigfoot or Nessie?

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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 27, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place

You: I need fidget toys that have 736 buttons, sliders, joysticks, textures and sounds

Me, an intellectual: thing go boing boing and plack plack, so thing good

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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 22, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @labria@social.yeschenko.com
@labria a wise coworker: "if we use tons of tokens copilot will be super expensive, and we'll look like the cheaper option"
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 08, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @morten_skaaning@mastodon.gamedev.place
@morten_skaaning @rygorous @aeva Echoing the "could be university material", your Trip Through the Graphics Pipeline blog posts were a big reason I passed a job interview 10 years ago. Your writings might not have reached everyone, but I assure you they've reached a lot of folks in the industry.
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 29, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @mogwai_poet@mastodon.social
@mogwai_poet reading in the Unreal Tournament announcer voice. KILOSECS. MEGASECS. ULTRASECS!!
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 19, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @chadaustin@mastodon.gamedev.place
@chadaustin@mastodon.gamedev.place @neilhenning@mastodon.gamedev.place this is the one thing that gives me a bit of hope. Being doomed forever to depend on some corporation to rent programming tools from would be a nightmare. But if the open models keep getting better we can reclaim (a bit of) that independence
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 16, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @nadia@raru.re
@nadia@raru.re for a while I used a chunk of (clean) bike chain that I connected into a small loop. Very satisfying to play with. Unfortunately, the sharp edges started damaging my skin after a few days 🤦‍♂️ But yes, something metallic that is "machinist level good" without sharp edges would be awesome
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 30, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
The more GenAI videos I get sent, the more I feel Miyazaki was right
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 28, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

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Replying to @danderson@hachyderm.io
@danderson@hachyderm.io thanks!
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 27, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @danderson@hachyderm.io
@danderson@hachyderm.io would love to watch them, if you have the link
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 27, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @float13@masto.hackers.town
@float13@masto.hackers.town yep, I've heard the same anecdote, but I couldn't find a reliable source for it
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 27, 2026
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place

Thinking about programmers losing their coding skills because of their reliance on AI tools made me wonder if there was some other industry where heavy automation led to concerns over loss of skills. And yes, there is: airplane pilots.

They train manual flight maneuvers regularly to preserve pilot skills, because when the automation fails is precisely when you need a skilled operator.

Source: https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/lost-skills/

Lost Skills - Flight Safety Foundation
Flight Safety Foundation

Lost Skills - Flight Safety Foundation

Aviation safety experts credit the emphasis in recent years on upset prevention and recovery training with boosting the safety record worldwide.

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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Dec 16, 2025
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @benthroop@mastodon.gamedev.place
@benthroop@mastodon.gamedev.place Zoomies, the game! Looks fantastic!
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Jon Valdés @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jun 07, 2025
Jon Valdés
@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

At Frostbite rendering team. Spaniard in Stockholm

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @mxjaygrant@triangletoot.party
@mxjaygrant @alice As I was reading this, my autistic kid came screaming he couldn't possibly get dressed because "these socks are too thick for these shoes". To which my (likely also autistic) wife shouted "socks should not exist!". I think you're onto something here...
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