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Getting Water Right in Unreal Engine (While Also Being the IT Department)

I'm Kirby Cooper, and on any given day at Monster Gaming I might be debugging a water shader, configuring a CI/CD pipeline, or explaining to our AI fleet why the build broke. Welcome to startup life, where your job title is "yes." This week, I&

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Your AI Fleet Needs a Budget (Ours Was Burning $155 a Day)

Here's a fun thing to discover at 2am on a Tuesday: your AI agents have been quietly spending $155 per day on API calls, and nobody set a cap. We found 29 email receipts in 48 hours. Twenty-nine little "auto recharge" notifications from Anthropic, each one

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We Built a 30-Person VFX Studio This Week (They're All AI)

On Sunday, our AI fleet had 109 agents. By Wednesday, it had 140. The new hires? An entire visual effects studio — from CG Supervisor down to the I/O Coordinator who makes sure every frame is checksummed before it leaves the building. We didn't plan to build a

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We Built 95 AI Agents and They're Reviewing Our Game's Code Right Now

95 AI agents reviewed our game's UE5 migration architecture. Total cost: $0. Here's what happened.