This is my thoughts on why Steam currently have got a lot of heat from Mastercard and Visa. Not long ago steamdeck proved to be faster than Windows when running on the same hardware. And this is a threat against the direction for Microsoft. Microsoft is quitting selling games. They want us to subscribe to their services. They want us to be trapped in an endless subscription service. Buying games is not the future for them. Steam is a competition to this. Steam has their own store and promote «buying» games. Steam is not build for Microsoft subscription services. And hopefully it never will be. It’s not just Microsoft. But EA, Ubisoft and all others. They are moving to subscription services to control what we can play and when. Steam can’t be allowed to exists in this «new» way of earning money. So now they hunt Steam. They proved that building their own OS to get away from Microsoft actually work. Steam works. But not the way they want it to work. So now Steam needs to know who’s the real king in the gaming market. What do you think?

I find that the agentic approach as seen in cursor or vscode copilot is a step in this direction. I like to compare LLM «intelligence» with how we humans approach knowledge and experience. And that is with general knowledge and capabilities. One example I use is: school has thought us that the earth is round and with a introduction to the math and physics around this. We know this for a fact, but if I where to submit proof of this statement today I don’t have the knowledge to do so. But I have the capabilities and understanding to, given correct context argue for it. The same applies to LLM ( I believe). As long as they are capable to retrieve correct data for any given task and reject the wrong ones, LLM are then capable to achieve most tasks, not on their own, but using tools. The same way humans use calculators and other tools, the same can be applied to LLMs.

True. We have setup an entire devops around developers because of this. Hehe. But that is where agentic AI becomes important. It won’t just write code, but also testing, microbenchmark etc… and introducing more context length and documentation their capabilities will surpass most developers fairly soon.

First it will devastate the junior positions. Then we’ll see an incredible increase in productivity from those who are good at coding. Which will require more developer positions. Then it’ll be so mature and good that it’ll replace most developers. I truly believe this, and it is something I’m preparing myself for.

I need my daily brain rot and endless scrolling!

I think that AI will empower the state. Just look at Palantir and how EU will strengthen their hold on AI and how it’s used. In Norway the government founded companies are encouraged to use 80% AI, whatever that means. In reality that pushes our public sector to use US companies such as Copilot or ChatGPT, sending all our data out of our sovereignty and control. AI will also be used in propaganda, we are now in the situation that it is impossible to verify if a content is AI generated or not. Images, videos and bots will be extensively used to alter the public perception of current events.