Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS

@alexstrook.bsky.social

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Indie game dev making games (and typos) - He/Him - I despise generative AI Squeakross | The Spirit and the Mouse @LukaTheMouse.gay 🐭 s.team/a/2871440 | @alblune.bsky.social

illustration of a leaf
"break glass in emergency", inside the text " Our latest model is too dangerous for humanity*" "*use it for extra $$$ in a few months"
conversation with slackbot question:remove slackbot slackbot's answer: To remove Slackbot, an admin can go to Slack Admin Settings → Manage Apps and remove it from there. question: Slack Admin Settings → Manage Apps doesn't exist answer: You're right, I gave you bad info there — sorry about that! Slackbot is actually a built-in part of Slack and can't be removed — it's a core system feature, not a third-party app. It handles things like slash command responses, automated notifications, and system messages.
Mario Golf toadstool tour, Gamecube
squeakross home squeak home, a rodent picture of a large rat is taking the whole screen
"Cortana in windows as a standalone app is deprecated" popup
video of a video game prototype, showing a character running in a grayboxed environment, throwing a ball at targets.
Resident evil requiem on switch 2
Stylized vector illustration of a gerbil
a vector illustration of a gerbil
Table of steam regional price change
Squeakross Home Squeak Home Rodent editor
A half asleep gerbil
"We believe the disposal of Playstack represents a milestone for TruFin and a clear demonstration of our disciplined approach to capital allocation and value creation. We've thoroughly enjoyed working with the Playstack team over the last few years and look forward to them achieving future success," said TruFin CEO, James van den Bergh.
Kiryu from the Yakuza game serie
Squeakross Home Squeak Home twitch mode graphics, showcasing some improvements
squeakross home squeak home, twitch integration settings
ai generated infographic about painting, full of nonsense and illogical legends, and links.
a void check floating in a void themed environment from world of warcraft
Poster showing details to look for on pictures to detect if they are Ai generated
4 green squares. each square has 4 red square at each corner
Google io 2026 recap montage, people repeating "AI" over and over
video from Google IO 206 keynote, showcasing gemini AI powered google doc
Google ai subscriptions prices
A gerbil eating a cheerios
window 10 start menu, with a search for "pen"
Xanadu Next Screenshot
Xanadu Next Screenshot
Xanadu Next Screenshot
The gap between "works in demo" and "works in production" is where most AI projects die, and nobody talks about it honestly enough. Here's what I've actually shipped and what the reality looked like: Document extraction pipeline: Looks perfect in demos, falls apart at ~15% of real-world PDFs (weird formatting, scanned docs, tables). Had to build a human-review queue for low-confidence outputs. Still runs, but it's 70% AI, 30% human in practice. Customer support routing agent: Got to ~82% correct intent classification before we hit a wall. The last 18% was costing more to fix than it was worth — we capped it and flagged edge cases for humans. Internal knowledge retrieval (RAG setup using chunked embeddings): This one actually works cleanly. Retrieval quality depends almost entirely on how you chunk and index, not the model you pick. What's consistently not working: anything requiring reliable multi-step reasoning over 4-5 hops, real-time data with tight latency requirements, and agents that need to "decide" when to stop. The honest stack I keep coming back to: deterministic logic for the guardrails, AI for the fuzzy middle, humans for the tail
I have a general purpose personal assistant that can manage Gmail, google calendar, google drive, notion, YNAB, and Blackbaud (for the kids’ homework). It runs from my phone and I give it one line prompts like “check my email for a receipt for ramen and add the transaction to the budget then set a reminder to submit an expense report to get it reimbursed” or “check for missing assignments, then email the kids reminders using gen alpha slang, and add a block of time to the family calendar this weekend so we don’t overbook ourselves”
Gerbils investigating a branch
The Spirit and the Mouse Screenshot
minecraft tnt block
Crazy Gravity - Windows game
daft punk like stylized character model
UnityHubNative window
custom youtube to mp3 tool
The death, reported for the first time by The Western Edge, has left employees at the facility in shock and concerned about their own safety. Several workers said they found their bosses’ response too callous; they seemed more concerned with keeping packages moving than with an employee dying in front of them.
Character sprites from Professor Layton DS games
Professor Layton DS screenshot, showing a quaint european looking town 2D artwork. A big red house with a blue roof next to a river
Professor Layton New world of steam key art
A gerbil covered with wood chips
Unity version selection dropdown, most version labeled in red "SECURITY ALERT" or in yellow "WARNING"
drawing of a person telling a computer "say 'I am a live'" the computer replies "> I AM ALIVE". Person replies: "oh my god."
tax slip drawing with number box in a illogical number that makes no damn sense
resident evil 4
House MD gif, wilson saying "Godot would be faster"
drawing of a person telling a computer "say 'I am a live'" the computer replies "> I AM ALIVE". Person replies: "oh my god."
code comment "This is ok"
Article blog post about degooglisation, thumbnail with panicked pikmins