A new study "compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments," reports the Washington Post. They add that at least one example "illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has implications for the whole economy." AI can accomplish many impressive tasks involving computer code, documents or images. That has prompted predictions that human work of many kinds could soon be done by computers alone. Bentley University and Gallup found in a survey [PDF] last year that about three-quarters of Americans expect AI to reduce the number of U.S. jobs over the next decade. But economic data shows the technology largely has not replaced workers. To understand what work AI can do on its own today, researchers collected hundreds of examples of projects posted on freelancing platforms that humans had been paid to complete. They included tasks such as making 3D product animations, transcribing music, coding web video games and formatting research papers for publication. The research team then gave each task to AI systems such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude. The best-performing AI system successfully completed only 2.5 percent of the projects, according to the research team from Scale AI, a start-up that provides data to AI developers, and the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit that works to understand risks from AI. "Current models are not close to being able to automate real jobs in the economy," said Jason Hausenloy, one of the researchers on the Remote Labor Index study... The results, which show how AI systems fall short, challenge predictions that the technology is poised to soon replace large portions of the workforce... The AI systems failed on nearly half of the Remote Labor Index projects by producing poor-quality work, and they left more than a third incomplete. Nearly 1 in 5 had basic technical problems such as producing corrupt files, the researchers found. One test involved creating an interactive dashboard for data from the World Happiness Report, according to the article. "At first glance, the AI results look adequate. But closer examination reveals errors, such as countries inexplicably missing data, overlapping text and legends that use the wrong colors — or no colors at all." The researchers say AI systems are hobbled by a lack of memory, and are also weak on "visual" understanding.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

This year’s Game Off winners weren’t just inspired by the WAVES theme. They surfed it. From sound-bending platformers and tide-controlled puzzles to glow-slug exploration, naval drift madness, and typing so intense it collapses stadium morale, these top ten games prove that “waves” are not only in the ocean. They can mean physics, emotion, memory, or even pure chaos.

Game Off is GitHub’s annual game jam, now in its 13th year, inviting developers from around the world to build games around a single theme and share the source code. It’s part experiment, part playground, and part community showcase where beginners and veterans ship games, learn in public, and play, rate, and review each other’s work.

The top ten highest rated games overall are all shown below – all rated and reviewers by the Game Off participants themselves. Congratulations, builders! So grab a controller. Or a keyboard. Or a frog. Then, get ready to surf these games! 🏄🏻

1 Evaw

Evaw is a moody platformer where light waves, sound waves, and poetic radio transmissions guide you through the ruins of a fallen nation. Bend physics, unlock paths, ignore useless feathers, and slowly realize this world is listening back. This game includes adjustable difficulty, hidden secrets, and a speedrun timer for when “cozy” turns competitive. Hydration encouraged.

2 Where the Water Flows

A calm, clever isometric puzzle adventure where water levels are the level design. Raise or lower the sea level, reveal paths, and think before you move. This game’s serene visuals, smart pacing, and puzzles reward observation over reflexes. Clean, chill, and dangerously close to being meditative.

3 BEACON

You are a slug. You glow. You are lost. BEACON drops you into a dark, abandoned world where light waves reveal paths, secrets, and missing friends. Short, atmospheric puzzles reward curiosity and patience, not button mashing. Cozy, quiet, and proof that illumination solves most problems, including loneliness.

4 A Kingdom Slightly Out Of Tune

A puzzle-strategy mashup where sound waves are weapons, and matching colors triggers musical shockwaves. Slide tiles, chain colors, remix upgrades, and blast enemies back into harmony. Experience cute art, punchy audio, and combos that clear the screen in one perfectly tuned hit.

5 Wave Drifter

Peaceful sailing is canceled. Wave Drifter throws you into high-speed naval chases where drifting is mandatory and ramming is encouraged. Boost, blast, collect purple orbs, stack upgrades, and turn your ship into a floating mistake for the royal navy. Enjoy simple controls, busted builds, and “one more run” energy until sunrise.

6 Tidal Town

City planning meets divine disaster. Slide buildings into color groups to score points and calm Poseidon, who is absolutely not calm. This game is easy to learn, surprisingly tactical, and constantly evolving as waves reshape the board. Bright visuals, smooth play, and a playful take on managing chaos one house at a time.

7 Froggy Love

A cozy ripple-physics puzzle about guiding a lovestruck frog across a pond using carefully placed splashes. Three handcrafted levels turn wave timing into romance logistics. Snakes are bad. Vibes are good. Proof that even small ripples can lead to big feelings.

8 Ooqo

A slick arcade score-chaser where movement becomes rhythm. Glide across fish to survive, chain combos to build momentum, and never step where you shouldn’t. Simple rules, deep flow state, plus a hypnotic soundtrack and leaderboard that will steal your time.

9 La Ola

Tired of running endlessly? Try typing endlessly! La Ola turns “the wave” you’ll see at big soccer games into a high-stakes typing gauntlet where your WPM (words per minute) holds the stadium vibe together. Miss letters, the crowd naps. Miss a space, the wave collapses. Procedurally generated text is powered by Markov Chains, because science. Brutal, addictive, and extremely honest about your keyboard skills.

10 The Last Wave

A haunting mystery where waves carry memory, grief, and identity. Work alongside Saja, Korea’s grim reaper, to reconstruct lives lost in a fatal fire by matching names, locations, and overlapping wave signals. Inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, this game is deeply thoughtful, culturally grounded, and quietly devastating. Short, meticulous, unforgettable.

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These ten games are the top-ranked entries overall from more than 700 submissions to Game Off 2025. They’re not the whole story. The quality across this year’s jam was consistently high, with hundreds more games worth exploring. Play more on itch.io.

Thanks <3

Thanks for building—and for playing. Seriously.

Game Off only works because people show up. Builders, players, raters, reviewers. Every comment, every score, every “hey this is cool” helped turn this jam into a real community moment. Thanks for making waves with us. We’ll see you in the next one.

The post Light waves, rising tides, and drifting ships: Game Off 2025 winners appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Mibo: A Functional Game Framework for F#
• Generative AI: The Future of Consumer Technology – .NET Blog
• XAML Studio is now Open Sourced – #ifdef Windows
• EF Core MongoDB Queryable Encryption and Vector Search Explained – .NET Blog
• Scaling AI Agents with Aspire: The Missing Isolation Layer for Parallel Development | Aspire Blog
• Semantic Reranking in Azure SQL and SQL Server Explained – Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
• Welcome to 2026, A Growth Year for All of Us – Visual Studio Blog

#fsharp #webdevelopment #systemsprogramming speakez.tech/blog/wren-st…

— SpeakEZ.tech (@speakeztech.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T18:07:03.522Z

Videos

• ASP.NET Community Standup: Server & APIs roadmap discussion for .NET 11
• .NET MAUI Community Standup – Run .NET MAUI on Linux with Avalonia

Blogs

• FSharp.Native: From IL to NTU | SpeakEZ Technologies
• Absorbing Alloy | SpeakEZ Technologies
• The WREN Stack | SpeakEZ Technologies
• C# – F# Interop (2026 edition) – planetgeek.ch
• Event Sourcing in F#: From Cross-Stream Invariants to “Refreshable Details” | by Tony Lucca

C# and F# Interop (2026 edition)How to easily start with F# in your existing C# codebase.www.planetgeek.ch/2026/01/06/c… #dotnet #csharp #fsharp #Interop

— Urs Enzler (@ursenzler.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T13:00:53.173Z

Highlighted projects

• AngelMunoz/Mibo: A micro-framework built on top of Monogame for F# Devs
• fslaborg/flips: Fsharp LInear Programming System
• destructurama/fsharp: Native support for destructuring F# types when logging to Serilog.
• JordanMarr/Agent.NET: A composable AI agent framework for .NET.
• fs-fio/fio: A Type-Safe, Purely Functional Effect System for Asynchronous and Concurrent F#

New Releases

• Mibo.Templates 1.0.1
• Hedgehog 2.0.2
• Akka.Persistence.FSharp 1.5.58
• Swate.Components 1.0.7
• Oxpecker.OpenApi 2.1.0
• Flips 2.4.12
• FSharp.Idioms 1.5.5
• Hedgehog 2.0.2
• Destructurama.FSharp 4.0.0
• QualIQon 1.0.0
• AgentNet 1.0.0-alpha.1
• FSharp.FIO 0.0.34-alpha

I know when you think about GameDev you think about C++ C# or even rust!Welp, I'd like you to consider giving F# a chanceMibo aims to become micro framework on top MonoGame.It'll give you some ergonomics, and pathways for you to write your games in seamless F# #dotnet #gamedev #fsharp #monogame

— Angel Munoz (@tunaxor.me) 2026-01-09T21:40:19.528Z

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

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You may have seen my guest post on Healthcare IT Today about Why Public Health Data needs to Modernize a few months back.  I've been working to support this for years, and in October 2025, HL7 achieved a pretty significant goal supporting that.  The HL7 Version 2 to FHIR Standard for Trial Use was finally published.

I have been working on the HL7 Version 2 to FHIR project since the initial inception in late 2018, almost at the same time as I started at Audacious Inquiry.  My first project at Audacious was to create a V2 to FHIR Converter, which we did build and provide to some of our customers.  Audacious contributed the mappings our team developed (mostly through efforts of our product owner and me, with some help from our HL7 V2 interface developers) to the project in early 2019, and they became the initial spreadsheets that were used to create the HL7 V2 to FHIR guide.

I now have the somewhat dubious attribute as having be an editor working on one of the longest running projects from inception to STU publication in HL7 history (7 years).  Yes, I am certain some have run longer, but none that I can think of off the top of my head.  Part of my editorial role in the early days was to have evolved the effort to represent the content in spreadsheets, and then to translate (in code), those nearly 400 spreadsheets into over 250 FHIR ConceptMap resources.  More recently, it has been maintenance of the V2 to FHIR IG generator code base, and detailed technical review of the content produced in the guide to verify that it can be accessed in computable form, not just via spreadsheets but through the FHIR Resources, and ensuring that all content is consistently handled and can be used to automatically generate a V2 to FHIR converter.

I'm thrilled to see this finally published, and our team has been working on turning the output of this guide into a Data Modernization offering for public health that will enable them to turn legacy data into FHIR resources that can be accessed through modern APIs.  We are working on a completely new software base to support V2 and CDA to FHIR conversions we'll be talking more about at HIMSS 26.

Happy 2026, programs! As this is the first Links For You for the year, I figure it may be good to remind folks why I write these. Social media can be a great place to share links with folks, but it's very much hit or miss. Someone may share something incredibly cool that you would love to boost, but if you miss it, you're out of luck. I subscribe to many listservs that share good tech links, but a while ago I thought it would be cool to share and promote links I thought were especially cool. Obviously that's pretty opinionated, but that's why you're here, right? Each of these posts will have three links, typically but not always tech related, and a fourth entry that is 100% just for fun. Enjoy!

The price of URL parameters

First up is a fascinating look at how innocuous URL parameters can have an adverse effect on performance: Fixing the URL params performance penalty. Barry Pollard (from the Google devrel team) discusses how URL parameters, even those that don't change the output of a site, can impact the performance of a web page. Even cooler, he talks about a proposed solution to the problem.

Relative Time via Web Components

Yall know I love web components, and next up is a cool one from GitHub called relative-time-element. This makes use of Intl to display dates relatively, i.e. so and so days from now. (You can check out my post on it here.) Here's an example of how it looks:

<relative-time datetime="2026-01-01T16:30:00-08:00">
    January 1, 2026 4:30pm 
</relative-time>

Which today renders: last week. For earlier times it will render something like on December 1, 2025, with the proper formatting for the user's locale. There's a bunch of different attributes and it's actually used by GitHub itself on the main site. If you want to play quickly with it, I've embedded a CodePen below:

See the Pen Untitled by Raymond Camden (@cfjedimaster) on CodePen.

My only suggestion here is that you should probably always use the title attribute with this such that if the user hovers over the relative formatted time, they can also see the "real" date.

Embedding CanIUse

Next up is a cool little utility to embed CanIUse data on your web page: CanIUse Embed. You drop in the script tag and then add a data attribute to a paragraph tag. Here's an example:

<p class="ciu-embed" 
data-feature="mdn-javascript_builtins_intl_relativetimeformat" 
data-past="5" data-future="3"></p>

Figuring out that value for feature was a bit hard, but if you go the docs, they've got a nice little helper there to make that easier. You can see an example of this below:

Just For Fun

Did you know this year is the 40th anniversary of "The Labyrinth"? Of course you did. Of course it also helps if your wife is a massive nerd and this is her favorite movie. Tomorrow night we're going to see it at the theater (for probably the third or fourth time since we've been together, which is just fine with me!) and this is probably the most fun song from the movie. Enjoy!

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