Alice I. Cecile

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@alice_i_cecile

Full-time engine dev for Bevy: an open source Rust game engine.

I design games, make all manner of things, and was once a plant ecologist. Dreaming of a transhumanist, solarpunk future.

Bevy: https://bevy.org/
Blog: https://shaping.systems/
GitHub: https://github.com/alice-i-cecile

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2026-09-11 04:04:17 UTC

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That has not at all been my professional experience. We've seen a slow and careful trickle of use, mostly to fix bugs and catch it in review. We have not been inundated with a mountain of slop PRs and the authors using AI have been respectful of our boundaries around use patterns and stuck around to share what they know and help others with their work.

2026-04-13 21:46:00 UTC

Despite merging aggressively yesterday (like 20 PRs!) to prepare for Bevy's 0.19 release, the #bevymergetrain cannot, will not be stopped. In the 24 hours since I did that, the community has approved 10 new open source Rust PRs. Grab a beverage (a #bevy ?) and chill with me as we work through them:
https://gist.github.com/alice-i-cecile/730e9b2f3b3894a008854ad1ca806c87

2026-04-04 19:22:50 UTC

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Being progressive is about making change in the world, not being mad at the right people and scoring points online for remaining morally pure. Doing things, and doing them *well* matters.
I believe strongly that doing the right thing is, by and large, compatible with doing things well. Better organizational structures, more sustainability, compassion, diversity: these *work*. You just have to actually be willing to compete at the same damn game everyone else is playing.

2026-04-04 19:22:50 UTC

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The point about "effective tools" above is not just about AI, BTW. The rejection of useful, standard tools and methods goes way back. I've seen my allies reject:
- wildly superior, closed source software
- telemetry, no matter how ethical
- building a business that can, you know, pay bills
- paid advertising
- social media with superior or complementary reach
- the very notion of marketing
It's fine if you want to prioritize your own purity. Just don't pretend it's the best way to do good.

2026-04-04 19:22:49 UTC

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If you have any power to change this: do so! Set your ego aside, push back on top-down control, and work on fixing your processes and culture. Change the *shape* of your incentives and org, and actually reflect on what decisions are working without viewing it as a power struggle.
If you're in tech, and think that you don't have any power to change this because you're just a peon, oppressed by the capitalist overclass: go make something. Build a team, start a worker coop. It's never been easier.

2026-04-04 19:22:49 UTC

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If we say "building businesses is ontologically evil" and "using effective tools is ontologically evil" and "doing anything other than charity work, socialist political advocacy or being oppressed is ontologically evil", guess what?
You're willing giving up your ability to affect change in the world. You're giving up your ability to do good while feeding your family. You're pushing all of this into unpaid, volunteer labor, driving the burnout that you claim to hate.

2026-04-04 19:22:49 UTC

https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@elizayer/116347406749184382 by @npub1kg8…hy7e makes some excellent points. By and large, I agree that "writing more code faster" *hasn't* delivered on the promise to revolutionize things.
Where I differ is that I don't view this as evidence that AI is useless. Instead, we need to take the "soft" bits of software seriously: organizational structure, product planning, quality control, consensus building, docs.
Far too much of traditional engineering culture boils down to enforcing petty power.

2026-04-04 19:22:49 UTC

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I'm tired of seeing people who agree with me on what the future should look like give up all of their ability to actually shape that fucking future. Of prioritizing purity over doing good. Of seeing people sit on their sidelines and snipe at their "allies" for the hard choices they have had to make, while never doing anything that would necessitate hard choices.
The future is coming, whether you like it or not. As the world burns, you're really going to sit there in snide helplessness?

2026-03-22 17:44:04 UTC

Hi #bevy! Want to hang out at #rustweek in May? We're gathering a list of folks for socialization and unconf planning purposes!
If last year is any judge, it should be a lot of fun: bikes, food, hacking, writing docs, pestering upstream :3
Fill in the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-WJWlTquuSyzxfsyG1WeiJVpf_tjSyDrFDOchKLwZ2M/edit?gid=0#gid=0

2026-02-07 19:11:36 UTC

The seventh #bevy game jam is now live! Join at itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-7 The theme, as voted by you and selected by a fair committee of rats, is "Extremely Incohesive Fever Dream". See below for video proof of the final selection process ;)

2026-01-14 20:31:33 UTC

With our even-numbered Bevy release comes a new #bevy Jam! This is a nine-day jam: see the full rules at https://itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-7 😄 ⁠The jam-theme-voting channel over on Discord (discord.gg/bevy) is now open for theme suggestions!
Timeline:
January 14: theme suggestion opens
January 24: theme voting opens, theme suggestions close Feb
7: theme selected and jam starts
Feb 15: jam concludes!

2026-01-12 20:55:52 UTC

Hi #bevy ! We're looking to apply for Google Summer of Code 2026, to help teach and train students and those new to #opensource.
Have a project idea that you'd like to mentor? Interested in being a mentor in general? Sign up here! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ehuIyy32z1CDBpdSaYLEUCT3J3EOiV7v5eRcNVGMEVQ
Applications open on January 19th, so we'd like to get this set up this week :)

2025-08-26 03:09:48 UTC

Hey #bevy :) It's time for your weekly #bevymergetrain. While we're still hard at work nailing down the last couple of problems for 0.17, the #bevymergetrain must go on.
Let's see what #opensource #rust work the community has cooked up and reviewed for us this week: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3AS-Ready-For-Final-Review

2025-08-11 23:01:30 UTC

Hi #bevy ! It may be release season, but it's time for a quick #bevymergetrain. As I explained this morning in a mentoring meeting with a PM from #godot (!), each week, I go over the community-approved PRs and make a final call.
Let's take a look at the 8 PRs: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3AS-Ready-For-Final-Review

2025-07-28 20:42:09 UTC

Alright, it's time for some serious #bevy project management. Our planned 0.17 release candidate date of August 4th is approaching quickly, and we still have an alarming 78 issues and PRs in our milestone: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/milestone/32
Surely we can get that number down, right?

2025-06-13 19:24:26 UTC

My #rustweek 2025 talk VOD is up! I tell a story about a new ECS feature for #bevy, how a bug became a feature, and the trade-offs between push and pull event architectures in #programming :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZylYZHFhaM&list=PL8Q1w7Ff68DCEXiGidlM0DMn8ztjlUlez&index=39

2025-05-31 16:59:20 UTC

Hey #bevy: get ready to #gamejam. Learn #rust, create something delightful, have fun with #gamedev! Bevy jam #6 has officially begun! https://itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-6
The Man of Feathers, with the help of his trusty tarot deck, has selected this jam's theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhO2VVRRnU

2025-05-14 14:45:18 UTC

I'm about to give my #rust talk about #bevy's immutable components at #rustweek. This is a fun "story" talk, about how a weird little bug turned into an important feature for #gamedev. Watch the live stream here!
Missed it? Check out the slides with speaker notes: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JGDZqeP8odTuO8nAQyZjNKFmwFUpHt0qUSvh3ciNcPM/edit?usp=sharing

2025-03-31 18:55:11 UTC

It's time for a special edition of the #bevymergetrain. This week, we're going to be going over all of the 0.16 milestone PRs, checking in on their status, and merging as many little fixes as we can!
Users have been hard at work finding regressions; it's our job to fix 'em!
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A0.16

2025-03-10 22:58:24 UTC

After a bit of procrastination, it's time for this week's #bevymergetrain :) If you're new around here, every Monday I go over the community-approved #opensource PRs for #bevy, our #rustlang engine for #gamedev.
Despite merging aggressively yesterday, there's 24 PRs ready: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3AS-Ready-For-Final-Review

2024-09-23 18:16:03 UTC

For those who didn't wishlist it, #tinyglade is now out on Steam! Delightfully chill cozy castle building in a forest with some of the most interesting procgen-style mechanics I've ever seen. Built in #rustlang with #bevy!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/

2024-09-22 20:42:22 UTC

The document I was working on last week for #bevy's Editor vision, roadmap and design constraints is merged and now live. Read it https://bevyengine.github.io/bevy_editor_prototypes/.
Complaints, typos, or want to start building the tools for #gamedev in #rustlang? Come help out at https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy_editor_prototypes
There's a ton of hacky prototype code to build; come write it with me! Or clean up after us, if that strikes your fancy ;)

2024-09-19 18:58:45 UTC

Wish #bevy had an editor? Sick of endless discussion? Confused about why we don't just build something? Want to help?
Me too! Read over https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy_editor_prototypes/pull/15, which lays out the collected goals, roadmap and design constraints for @npub1xd0…gnfx's editor. If this is something you can get behind, feel free to pick one of the Stage 1 goals and open a PR!

2024-09-10 15:09:30 UTC

Hey #bevy! It's been four years since Bevy was created, and a few months since I started full-time at @npub1xd0…gnfx. I wrote a post about how it's gone, and what are my plans for the future? Come for the reflections on nontraditional work scheduling, stay for the hot takes on why being "the best Rust game engine" isn't an important goal for Bevy.
https://bevyengine.org/news/dream-job/