#Policy-as-Code
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eidolon.photon.institute
people are not going to be happy to know that godot explicitly allows this exact usage pattern in its ai policy and multiple contributions are accepted with disclosure as long as "substantial pieces" of code are not generated. essentially the same policy as the Gnu Compiler project.
November 10, 2026 at 7:57 AM
littlepinksquid.gay
I am Fucking Furious

Entire Story is Here, Ive posted @househouse.com's official statement.

aftermath.site/big-walk-ai-...
As for why House House is only confirming AI use in the game now, rather than at release, they say "We have not made any disclosure on Steam as the platform does not request disclosure of code or chatbot usage. We are posting this disclosure as it has become a matter of public interest." For future games, the studio says "Big Walk was developed without an internal AI usage policy in place, and we consider that lack of policy a failure. We will work to have a more comprehensive policy going forwards." Here is House House's statement in full: In the final stretch of Big Walk’s development, LLMs were used sparingly by House House to help work through difficult technical challenges and bugs. In some cases, snippets from LLM responses were copied as a starting point to be modified into game code—we’d estimate that well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code had anything to do with this usage, and generative AI was not used in any other context when making the game. The primary use case for House House’s use of LLMs was to research, via chatbots, issues we encountered with third-party code. If you’re technically-minded, and curious, here’s an example. We needed to cull shadow casters by distance from the camera, but Unity URP only allows culling shadow casters by distance in camera forwards, so shadow casters behind the player were being rendered at an infinite distance. This made our game run 50% slower for around 20 seconds at sunrise and sunset. We researched the problem extensively, and we looked at the URP code ourselves, but we couldn’t find a way. Then, we were able to speak directly to an engineer at Unity, who asked around and ultimately concluded that what we wanted wasn’t possible. Finally, we posed the question to an LLM chatbot. After a few dead ends, it suggested a possible fix, and while we had to modify the suggestion extensively, it worked. This fix represented about 10 lines of code inside URP.
November 10, 2026 at 6:59 AM
statuscoupnews.bsky.social
"They put their kids to bed at night not knowing what's going to happen overnight."

Status Coup's Jon Farina was on the scene as members of Code Pink confronted Senator Chuck Schumer's office to protest the war on Iran and American foreign policy.

Video produced by Phillip Hawkins
November 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
spacebeer.net
im not huge on this game (not for any critical reasons just lack of interest) so using .01% of poop in your code as an absolute last resort is just gonna get a side eye from me

but I can also completely understand the zero tolerance policy ppl have cuz some ppl have to live next to data centers
November 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
henrythedog.bsky.social
yes thats what I mean

pro-war as code word for "frustrating Russian foreign policy goals" (and sometimes China)
November 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM
clove.bsky.social
Idk why godot keeps getting lumped in here as "having ai in it" when godot foundation has a strict human-only code policy. Any godot development done with AI is through 3rd party plug-ins
November 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
joemygod.bsky.social
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November 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
jeremypeeples.bsky.social
Reminds me of every company ever with an "open door policy" as code for "we ain't paying shit"
November 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
osrepos.bsky.social
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November 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
toadcialism.bsky.social
As an experienced tax law writer and policy analyst who literally wrote the book on gamedev taxes,

Hire me to write essays about why the tax code is uniquely designed to influence behaviors, and why it’s also terrible to make people wait until filing season for relief!
November 11, 2026 at 12:39 PM
sharonk.bsky.social
tbh one way that the Dems could avoid having to make hard decisions on policy is turning a microscope on every member of the Trump admin now, but this would code as far left to the editorial board
November 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
hopefulhearttj.bsky.social
I remember the push for that tax code. The industry I worked for moved production offshore for that very purpose. This isn’t a backdoor. It’s policy working exactly as designed by industry lobbyists.
November 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
nevillemorley.eurosky.social
…almost as a kind of cheat code, which will fool the mass of the electorate (or, subset thereof, e.g. Young People) into signing up for campaign even when the policy contents are insufficiently persuasive.
November 7, 2026 at 9:48 AM
aurelius.quest
The policy at our company is that we all have to use AI, but it can only be used as an assistant*.

We have some people who try to use it to do their whole job, and it shows. It consistently produces code like is described here. Bloated. Badly performing. Unreadable. Unsupportable.
November 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM
hadesinholdenseye.bsky.social
but without limiting the policy to LLMs.
I was not asking what that meant, but rather showing that the word "code" does not appear as an explicit carve out in the section that matters here
November 10, 2026 at 8:53 AM
boobs.goodgirls.onl
idk, i'm more disturbed the Unity engineer didn't know how to fix the problem with their own unity code.
they went to an LLM to tell them how to do something in Unity that the Unity engineer said couldn't be done? o_O

now i'm thinking about those buggy games i've played over the years
what if...?
Screenshot of a news article in white text on a dark background. It reads: “As for why House House is only confirming AI use in the game now, rather than at release, they say ‘We have not made any disclosure on Steam as the platform does not request disclosure of code or chatbot usage. We are posting this disclosure as it has become a matter of public interest.’ For future games, the studio says ‘Big Walk was developed without an internal AI usage policy in place, and we consider that lack of policy a failure. We will work to have a more comprehensive policy going forwards.’ Here is House House’s statement in full:” The statement follows in italics, set off by a pink line on its left: “In the final stretch of Big Walk’s development, LLMs were used sparingly by House House to help work through difficult technical challenges and bugs. In some cases, snippets from LLM responses were copied as a starting point to be modified into game code—we’d estimate that well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code had anything to do with this usage, and generative AI was not used in any other context when making the game. The primary use case for House House’s use of LLMs was to research, via chatbots, issues we encountered with third-party code. If you’re technically-minded, and curious, here’s an example. We needed to cull shadow casters by distance from the camera, but Unity URP only allows culling shadow casters by distance in camera forwards, so shadow casters behind the player were being rendered at an infinite distance. This made our game run 50% slower for around 20 seconds at sunrise and sunset. We researched the problem extensively, and we looked at the URP code ourselves, but we couldn’t find a way. Then, we were able to speak directly to an engineer at Unity, who asked around and ultimately concluded that what we wanted wasn’t possible. see second image continuation from first image Finally, we posed the question to an LLM chatbot. After a few dead ends, it suggested a possible fix, and while we had to modify the suggestion extensively, it worked. This fix represented about 10 lines of code inside URP. We originally wrote a version of the above disclosure as it was a suggested part of our IGF submission. We have not made any disclosure on Steam as the platform does not request disclosure of code or chatbot usage. We are posting this disclosure as it has become a matter of public interest. This is not an endorsement of, or argument for, the use of AI tools, however minimal. We have some concern that voluntary disclosures like this might contribute to the normalisation of this technology, or its treatment as ‘inevitable’. We support the work of those who are trying to limit the harm generative AI is doing to videogames and our world, and apologise that Big Walk’s LLM usage may not meet their standards. Big Walk was developed without an internal AI usage policy in place, and we consider that lack of policy a failure. We will work to have a more comprehensive policy going forwards.”
November 10, 2026 at 7:58 AM
fallsthedan.bsky.social
Steam's policy only applies to generated assets and live generation on the user side, they don't consider "tools" like code generation a breach of their terms. They are not wrong in saying that Steam did not require such disclosure, get mad at Valve too.
partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettings...
A snippet of steam's AI disclosure survey: We are aware that many modern game development environments have AI powered tools built into them. Efficiency gains through the use of these tools is not the focus of this section. Instead, it is concerned with the use of AI in creating content that ships with your game, and is consumed by players. This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc.
November 10, 2026 at 9:20 AM
waltho.bsky.social
Using AI to code is in the same ballpark (for me) as using a computer to optimize a freight delivery schedule or calculate risk factors for an insurance policy.

None of the reasons I detest AI "art" are particularly novel. I'm tired of it clogging every available online space with meaningless shit.
November 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
kyh9.bsky.social
I think trying to parse whether it’s morally bad enough to train on public code is basically just a “feelings” based argument that can shift as public sentiment shifts, which means the policy is only reactive to the popular opinion and not based on principle
November 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
paulirolla.bsky.social
Two rules get counted as one here: 'no AI code' and 'AI code must be disclosed and reviewed'. They lead to different repos, and a tracker reading policy pages can't tell them apart from outside.
November 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
arrowood.dev
I’ve personally adopted the human voice policy as my default for any unspecified OSS work github.com/Ethan-Arrowo...
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November 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
wayneesmith.bsky.social
Extra-judicial killings, renaming the Defense Department to pre-WW2 days (War), firing dedicated non-partisan generals/admirals, & a makeup studio are all counter-symbols of a code of conduct & ethics off the US military.

apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth slams his potential impeachment as a 'political spectacle’ that undermines US troops
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is contending that a rogue lawmaker is undermining American troops in war zones by targeting him with an impeachment effort over mere “policy disagreements.”
apnews.com
November 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
finalprofit.bsky.social
A group of us IGF jurors are taking a hard stance against the use of AI in game development.

We are including when it is used for code.

I tried to get a solid answer from Steam on their vague policy regarding whether that use needs to be disclosed. The following post was as far as they would go.
This year's IGF entries have been incredible. We've been lucky to play games that surprise, connect, and challenge us, and we're excited to vote for our favorites. Unfortunately, there has also been a significant increase in the number of submitted games developed with generative AI tools. This has set off some fairly intense discussion and disagreement across the judge and jury pools, and at this point there is no universal consensus on what (if anything) is to be done. The IGF has affirmed that we may cast our votes according to our own tastes and values. But we, a contingent of IGF jurors, feel that this trend and the games embracing it deserve stronger pushback than a vote in silence. While IGF leadership has approved the release of this statement, it's important to note that we do not speak for IGF as an organization, or for all IGF jury members. Many jurors had differing perspectives and significant reservations about this statement. Some jurists additionally voiced concern about their ability to safely sign without professional blowback, and we do not intend this letter to serve as a censure of those who were unable to sign. Above all: Our goal is to state solidarity with those who despair over the future of their art, their craft, and their industry—including those who have experimented with these tools in the past, but who now believe they are not in our best interest. We know that change does not come at the individual level, but as independent developers, we also know firsthand the value of pushing back on what an industry has deemed "inevitable." As jurists, we feel a responsibility to push past defeatism and aspire to a higher ideal. The future is not yet settled. You are not alone. We can stand together. We, the undersigned IGF jury members, believe the following: 1. That generative AI has these negative effects: Ecological harms at community and planetary levels Economic harms to working developers and artists Cognitive and psychological harms to its users Harm to the increasingly fragile information landscape Harms to labor and worker power in creative fields 2. That these harms do not depend on what is generated, be it music or writing, art or VO, marketing assets or code. 3. That AI-generated code is not an exception to these harms. Programming is a creative discipline whose labour deserves the same respect we extend to any part of making a game. This extends to the past work used to train these models without the creators' consent. 4. Finally, that the use of these tools is neither a foregone conclusion in our industry nor that their adoption has been wholly voluntary. We stand in solidarity not only with those developers who have the freedom to unilaterally reject them, but also with those who have been compelled by their employers to adopt their use, those working to establish or improve their workplace policies, and especially with those in positions of precarity who are so often those most pressured to abandon their values. For these reasons, this year we are declining to vote for any game that uses generative AI in any capacity. We urge the IGF to adopt a strong anti-AI policy for future years that disallows games containing any AI-generated work. A.M. Darke aurahack Aura Triolo Austin Walker Brendon Chung Brent Arnold Dan Floyd Everest Pipkin Gianna Ruggiero isaac io schankler Johnnemann Nordhagen Lena Raine Marielle Kho Megan Fox Noel Berry Osama Dorias Sam Barlow Tamara Duplantis Taylor Mccue
November 10, 2026 at 9:23 AM
lubelord.bsky.social
it's seen as a tool to have ai help with code so it's doesn't need to be disclosed from what i'm reading based on the policy
November 11, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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Term of the day: Policy as Code

Policy as Code is an approach that expresses security, compliance, and governance rules as machine-readable code rather than as documents or manual checklists. Because...

Full definition: benchmarkauthority.org/glossary/policy-as-code

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Policy as Code. Policy as Code is an approach that expresses security, compliance, and governance rules as machine-readable code rather than as documents or manual checklists. Because the rules live as code, they can be version-controlled, shared, and automatically evaluated by tooling, which helps make policy enforcement more consistent and repeatable. Writing a policy as code defines and can help enforce a rule, but it does not by itself guarantee compliance or eliminate risk, since coverage depends on what policies are authored and where they are applied.
November 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM