don't buy test hardware you'll only use once
Use your existing hardware as a proxy for low-end devices by choking CPU or GPU limits instead of buying test hardware you'll only use once.
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2026.04 - Agentic Autonomous Dev Loops
You can already make your coding agent profile your game. You can make it optimize code. You can even make it drive parts of the Unity Editor. Nice.
before your next update, get a second pair of eyes on this (performance ↔ revenue)
Before you ship your next launch or update, check these 3 things: 1. forget about average FPS: are your 1% lows holding 60 FPS (or whatever your target
my take on "surviving AI in gamedev"
Whether you like it or not, AI is here to stay. And it's not just here.. it's getting stronger. Exponentially stronger. It's becoming the baseline.
spicy topic: Unity's killing BIRP
This is triggering some people. Like a lot. Devs either hate it, or love it. Almost never a middle ground. After all, gamedev is a passionate field. Maybe
2026.03 - Agentic E2E Workflows
Your personal dev agent can already read code. It can profile. It can even fix things. But if it still goes blind the moment the real answer lives
Unity Launch Performance Risk Scorecard
If your Unity build feels “mostly fine,” you might still be one spike away from a milestone slip. Here’s the launch risk scorecard I use to translate
2026.02 - Agentic Optimization
Agentic Optimization: You already know the pattern: profiler finds pain, the team patches random code, and frame time still looks like a heart attack. In this lesson, you move from agentic profiling into agentic optimization so you stop guessing.
Unity 6.2 -> 6.3 Upgrade: 5 Reasons Your Frame Time (and Build Times) Might Finally Chill
Your frame-time graph looks fine… until Tilemaps instantiate, audio spins up, or URP "records" the frame. That “one hitch” is why retention drops and reviews go
Unity 6.2 vs 6.1: Worth the Upgrade?
Unity 6.2 (6000.2) has a bunch of performance work that’s not just “micro-optimizations.” The big themes: * Fewer main-thread stalls during async loading * Meaningful URP regression
Unity Draw Call Batching: The Ultimate Guide (2026 Update)
Learn how to reduce Unity draw calls and SetPasses with batching, material sharing, static batching, GPU instancing, and mesh combining.
2026.01 - Agentic Profiling
Agentic Profiling: You hit Ctrl+7, record a capture, open the Profiler Timeline, and… your frame time graph still looks like a heart attack. Better ways to do this? Yeah, plenty!