Reminds me of that five year period where every movie had to be shot with a 3d release in mind for no reason.

This describes most people's bosses.

This. LLMs aren't going to become intelligent, but they can fake it well enough that morons will think they are. Those are the people we need to worry about.

WON was a multiplayer service that was ALSO a early foray into online game distribution. Somewhat ironically as the platform on which Valve's Half-life was originally published.

The modern era of online games distribution is pretty closely tied to multiplayer hosting because those were the games that were primarily targeted for online distribution in a world where MOST games were offline and physically distributed.

Steam launched its own platform to compete with WON and moved all of its own titles over there. The biggest controversy associated with that was that Valve sent out a patch over the WON servers to move all the existing WON enabled games over to the new Steam platform.

The fun part is that unlike an intern, this shit isn't going to get better at it's job.

The most technically illiterate leaders are pushing the hell out of using for things that don't make sense while the workers who know what they are doing are finding some limited utility.

Out biggest concern is that people are going to be using it for the wrong stuff and fail to account for the errors and limitations.

Man, the US committing economic and cultural suicide sure is good for everyone else.

Shame they are going to send you a "battery protection update" that makes your phone last 45 minutes between charges on year three.

I'd bet against any plan that requires Google to not fuck you over for a whole 7 years.

Get me a linux smart phone with a headphone jack and I will buy it in a heartbeat, but I don't think very many other people will.

That's not who lost money here. Those assholes were out LONG before the rug got pulled on the dummies that bought this garbage.