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Louis van Proosdij retweeted
UnrealScript ignored null pointer access and skipped over the often, C/C++ crashes, C#/Java throw an exception, and Verse notes that the code may fail and requires you to wrap it in a conditional and handle it. This is our modern approach to catching as many problems as possible at compile time.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
🇺🇸 J’ai vu passer plusieurs articles situant cette victoire en Caroline du Nord. Non, c’est bien en Caroline du Sud !
Et l’histoire est assez incroyable : Nancy Lacore, vice-amirale limogée par Pete Hegseth, remporte selon DDHQ un siège républicain détenu jusqu’ici par Nancy Mace, dans une circonscription que Trump avait gagnée avec 13 points d’avance en 2024.
La militaire écartée par Hegseth entre au Congrès en faisant notamment campagne contre sa gestion du Pentagone et la guerre en Iran.
Difficile d’imaginer un symbole plus cinglant de la débâcle républicaine !
#BREAKING: Navy admiral fired by Pete Hegseth flips Nancy Mace’s South Carolina seat #Midterms2026
thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
I can see why Epic have doubled down on AI and an accelerated route to a slimmed down and restructured UE6. There is a window of opportunity right now where agentic workflow focused tech has the ability to overtake the current engines. It's all about iteration time and how much can be automated and customised.
Existing tech stacks are going to struggle to restructure around the ability to drive *everything* from an agent. Full headless operation, comprehensive test coverage, smart asset pipelines and packaging, custom per-title tooling, bespoke optimised core systems. This isn't just driving the UI via MCP, this is designing around agent access at every level.
Building from the ground up, with agents as the primary customer, means you gain an automation advantage at every single point of contact. You're not going to be able to restructure that radically while keeping all the creaking old systems working in parallel... you're just burning time before the inevitable happens.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
Exponentials are working in your favor.
Opus 5.5 is the first model that is good enough for game development and it is what ported UE5 to the web and hill climbed performance, memory, and download size of my little excavator project.
Cost per task / fixed level of intelligence has been going down by a factor of ~14 per year and that will probably accelerate. And that doesn't even factor in making the engine more efficient for AI to use.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
Can Mistral Large 4 find a critical vulnerability, prove it and fix it? We tested it on a recent Django CVE.
133 agents map the code, hunt for flaws, test attack scenarios and confirm the bug. Then Le Chonk patches it.
Triage, repro, patch. Shown at 90x speed.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
Imagine if Elon's $500 million had been spent on education or healthcare. Or the arts. Anything.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
Crime without accountability is practice. Justice is not vengeance. When the Soviet Union collapsed, we let euphoria blind us to the need for the hard work of investigation and responsibility. Do not forgive, do not forget, and clean house.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
Cyberattack on France’s national blood service (EFS) via its refrigeration contractor Coolworld. Hackers reset freezers keeping blood donor samples at -30°C to a target of 110°C. The thing that stopped it from destructive impact was an on-call technician who noticed the temperatures going up. Frozen plasma intended for transfusion was stored there too. Fortunately nothing was destroyed. This was a cyberattack on a sensitive layer of healthcare. From frozen peas to boiling plasma in three weeks...?
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
I am so looking forward to seeing how UE6 pans out. I've done a chunk of work with MassEntity and associated modules and they are clearly the way forward. The things holding back UE at the moment are the old object oriented patterns and frameworks. Good as they were there comes a time for radical change. DOD unlocks performance, and if you have agents to deal with the conceptual complexity and Verse to enforce better structure, it's a win-win.
This is the OS9 -> OSX moment.
What we are trying to do: Build an engine that’s more powerful than UE5, easier to develop in than Unity, and is the most efficient effective way to build with AI acceleration.
The problem with having old systems and new systems side-by-side is the tendency to mix them, and then their interoperability becomes a giant tangle of blueprints and verse, actors and entities.
We thought that side-by-side was unavoidable, but AI assisted conversion is now clearly way more effective, and will produce a way more manageable UE6 project than a hybrid, while making it way easier for us to simplify and improve the engine.
We’ll be proving it out by converting Fortnite, the game with the largest base of blueprints in existence, to the new approach.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
Mac users can now run SteamOS and play PC games on Apple Silicon Macs thanks to FX Steam Launcher, an independent project that runs SteamOS inside a lightweight virtual machine on macOS.
Early tests on an M4 Max MacBook Pro showed some impressive results:
-The Witcher 3: 70+ FPS at 1080p (High settings).
-Left 4 Dead 2: 140+ FPS.
-Fallout 4: 60 FPS at 1080p (Medium).
-Red Dead Redemption: 70+ FPS at 1080p.
Controller support is also included
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
The last time I felt this excited about game development was the mid 90s when I got hold of a PS1 dev kit and the world of accelerated 3D gaming became real.
Agentic workflows unlock possibilities we could only dream of 12 months ago. It’s not just 20x velocity, it is higher quality. We’re only just beginning to grasp what the future will look like.
I feel completely obsessed again. Like a kid at Christmas.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
It’s official: 5.9 is happening and it's coming in Preview next week.
It’ll include improved AI workflows, web as a target platform, rendering and animation updates, plus more.
We’re making a few changes in 5.9 branch over on GitHub, and more will come in over the next few days. More details coming soon!
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
You can use any model or no model, and work with the models and tools of your choice without Epic getting in between. Right now only the leading edge models are really useful for 3D and Verse. By early next year some of the open models should be pretty good too.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
When I worked at Unity, planning for major breaking changes was so hard because migration tools were all static and you had to make it painless for programmers to do.
Epic is going hard here, relying on ai assisted code migration instead. It’s a bold move but it means it’s possible to purge legacy systems in one go.
I hope it goes well for them! I don’t know if the games industry is ready to do a migration like this, but this is definitely a glimpse of the future.
Epic's Unreal Fest Tokyo presentation gives a first look at the planned transition from UE5 to UE6.
Epic plans to move away from UE5’s Actor system, Blueprints and C++ Gameplay Framework.
>AI-assisted migration.
>Removing the old gameplay framework.
>Moving existing projects to the new systems.
Early Access is targeted for 2027.
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
We tasked Mistral Large 4 with creating a real-time, 3D tracker of the roughly 19,000 satellites and debris fragments orbiting Earth.
The model built a working app, tested it like a user, made it fast, and passed strict verification.
Please meet Orbital Trace :
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
The scale of coordination of this attack is absolutely insane.
From Stockholm to Palermo, whoever is behind this has shown they want to target Europe as a whole: at 21:00, 13 European countries have signaled possible cyberattacks today:
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇮 Finland
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇹 Italy
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇵🇱 Poland
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇷🇴 Romania
🇸🇪 Sweden
As a reminder, under NATO and EU doctrine, a serious enough cyberattack can count as an armed attack and trigger Article 5 or the EU's mutual assistance clause.
It is clear they want to test of our reaction.
Got any idea who that could possibly be?
🇧🇪🇸🇪🇱🇺🇮🇪🇪🇺 Europe's food supply is under cyberattack.
Overnight, hackers took control of fridges and freezers in dozens of supermarkets across Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg and Ireland. Some were pushed to 50°C. Food had to be thrown away.
Three weeks ago, hundreds of French supermarkets were hit the same way.
This is what the attackers want to do: empty our shelves and disrupt our supplies.
Our societies are under attack, every single day. Those denying and minimising are betraying their people.
ft.com/content/2526056c-c616…
Louis van Proosdij retweeted
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Trump tried to bring down Poland’s government.
He urged Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz to leave the governing coalition.
The aim was a Polish government subordinate to Washington.
Europe must stand united and defend its sovereignty.
The damage Trump is doing to the transatlantic alliance will be irreparable.
This is a disgrace.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
