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We're all seeing that AI is often like a junior developer that needs specific direction, gets answers wrong and always promises to get better but never does. And yet, we are supposed to pretend that we are all just “prompting it wrong” or “just not using the right AI.” https://www.7generationgames.com/yet-another-post-on-the-emperors-new-ai/

Yet another post on the emperor’s new AI

We’re expected to believe AI is making us 5x as productive even while it persist in giving wrong answers.

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Ann Maria DeMars Dec 23

Here's a conundrum, for years, we've had a start-up / 7 Generation Games newsletter. People come up to me at conferences and tell me they read it. No one knows how they got on it. There wasn't even anywhere to sign up - so I made a sign up form on our website https://www.7generationgames.com/how-in-the-world-did-you-get-on-our-newsletter-list/

How in the world did you get on our newsletter list?

We have a newsletter on the behind the scenes of running a start-up - and no one knows how to sign up for the list - until now.

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Ann Maria DeMars Dec 17

I got the The Stoic archetype!

https://mastodon.social/@drannmaria/wrapstodon/2025/3359aa28acc9a1da

#Wrapstodon2025

Ann Maria DeMars Dec 17

I usually do one course a year as an adjunct. After teaching #biostatistics for 13 years, I'm teaching intro to #statistics this spring for the first time in about 15 years. New book, updating assignments. I'm only doing it for one course and it's a ton of work. Teachers obviously don't get paid enough.

Ann Maria DeMars Dec 16

My latest update: TL; DR; Everything is fine and you can make $$ by referrals t us for customized educational games. Also, we're offering free PD on making educational games, starting in April, 2026 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everything-fine-were-fire-7-generation-games-gssyc

Everything is Fine and We’re Not on Fire

It's been a minute since I sent an update on 7 Generation Games, so I wanted you all to know that everything is fine, and not in that little dog on fire way. (If you are not familiar with that meme, you are on the internet way less than me.

Ann Maria DeMars Dec 9

I started reading a pamphlet on the Library of Congress website and the next thing you know, I was making a game about poll tests - https://www.7generationgames.com/how-the-library-of-congress-rabbit-hole-led-to-a-poll-test-game/ #gamedev #socialstudieseducation

How the Library of Congress rabbit hole led to a poll test game

They were having a discussion about poll tests administered to African-Americans to keep them from voting and it sounded pretty extreme to me. So, I went to the Library of Congress site and the next…

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Ann Maria DeMars Dec 5

More games being built with blocks every week. I can't keep up with them all . https://7genblocks.com/built-with-blocks/

Ann Maria DeMars Dec 4

On the Professor Game podcast, Matt Dalio said ..
“If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.”
https://tinyurl.com/tewecant

Paying technical (and other) debt: Non-sexy but happy times

“If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.” Matt Dalio Since 7…

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Ann Maria DeMars Dec 2

Free cheeseburgers. No, actually it's a free book of our family texts, The Family Textbook. I give a lot to charity, including this week when I am inundated with requests. I'm sure you are all, too, so I thought I would give everyone here that follows me a free book. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vVplL1TR_EbQrCj2O5PGebLfwrXdwTf6/view?usp=sharing

Ann Maria DeMars Dec 1

A year ago, I wrote about various AI apps. Today, I revisited that post

How it began: It often seems the world is divided into two camps, those who believe we will be replaced by a horde of AI overlords & those who think the whole thing is the 2024 version of the Bored Ape NFTs. ...
TL; DR – Firefly combined with 7 Gen Blocks, makes it possible to make educational games in a fraction of the time. On the other hand, I sometimes forget that Gemini exists.

https://www.7generationgames.com/firefly-one-of-two-great-uses-for-ai/

Firefly: One of two great uses for AI

Adobe Firefly, when combined with 7 Gen Blocks, makes it possible to make educational games in a fraction of the time. This post was from a year ago. Has my opinion changed?

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