Archive: 2025-04

Game developer makes an argument for boring tech, talks about migrating away from Rust and in particular from a rapidly evolving framework in part because it makes LLMs less useful due to cut off date. — “The maturity and vast amount of stable historical data for C# and the Unity API mean that tools like Gemini consistently provide highly relevant guidance. While Bevy and Rust evolve rapidly - which is exciting and motivating - the pace means AI knowledge lags behind” (2025-04-29 · ai, boring.technology, coding, llm, mlp )

There Is One Clear Winner In The Corn Vs. Solar Battle - CleanTechnica — “converting just 3.2% of the US farmland devoted to corn ethanol farming to solar could yield the same amount of energy as all the corn ethanol” (and without the environmental impact of water use or fertilizers) (2025-04-27 · agriculture, climate, ethanol, mlp, policy, us )

Savor: Synthetic edible fats company — Fat production is land, water, and carbon intensive even when it doesn't come with animal welfare concerns. Super interesting to see folks building up edible triglycerides from scratch. (2025-04-25 · alternative, climate, climate-hope, cooking, food, mlp, savor )

Raising the cost of solar panels (via tariffs) destroys more jobs than it could hope to create by boosting a domestic manufacturing sector — Intuitively obvious but overlooked the majority of clean jobs aren’t in manufacturing but deployment. By slowing deployment you slow the creation of clean tech jobs. (2025-04-25 · climate, jobs, mlp, solar, tariffs )