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@TimSweeneyEpic @rfleury Isn't epic literally doing that when giving away games for free, subsidised with money made through unreal and fortnite, to try to steal steams market share becsuse the epic store app is not competitive?

@rfleury It's basic antitrust law. A company is free to gain market share by competing to offer a product that users love, but they can't use their dominance in one market to prevent fair competition in related markets, such as tying an app store to an in-app purchase system.

Steam’s rules do explicitly prohibit games from steering players to competing purchase methods, forcing everyone to pay 30% to Valve. Apple and Google did the same until the court explicitly found this practice to be unlawful. Now they don’t!

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@andrewpprice Yes just a cdn... partner.steamgames.com/doc/features

30% off the top of every game sold. No, they don't provide the engine, assets or any development. And you still need to do your own marketing. They'll handle the downloads for you. Amazing business model.

HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden

AI companies seeing 300TB of music "archived" publicly

Why is it that, instead of running at a savage loss and incinerating money, the people in possession of the Amazing Software Generating Machine don't use it to create huge quantities of commercially successful software? If I had something that could Do Software Engineering ...

@WarrenInTheBuff en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

lucky in that I genuinely don't think there's a single person at our startup that isn't vital to their role

@mkristensen Cool, do you have a separate roadmap for Natural Intelligence features or is it gonna be 90% AI from now on?

Visual Studio’s AI roadmap is live! What’s coming next and how it helps you stay in flow, ship faster, and level up. Read the September update: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/r…

@JenMsft Incremental disk snapshots on external drives and sandboxing of apps

What's something you wish was easier to do on your PC?

"It's to protect the children" What child has a credit card

And to absolutely nobody's surprise, they came for us next and started banning horror games from Steam and itch.

Many thought the developers were the drag. The dead weight on innovation. The expensive anchor slowing the shipping lanes of progress. Too many questions. Too much resistance. Always asking what the hell the system was supposed to do instead of just building it and shipping it broken. Ship early, ship often. Keep moving and break things, stop asking for a team of business analysts and start coding more. Then came the machines. Silent. Obedient. Tireless. You feed them a prompt and they spill out entire frameworks in under sixty seconds. You say you want a distributed cache and it hands you Redis like a butler serving scotch. You want auth flows. You get OAuth and JWT and a shiny bow on top. The devs are no longer the problem. Now the cancer is visible. Glowing. Pulsing in the center of the planning board. Requirements. The sacred cow of the product cult. Vague. Contradictory. Decorated in buzzwords and served at daily standups like stale communion wafers. AI took the wheel and exposed the core dysfunction. Development is no longer the bottleneck. It is the vacuum above it. The blank space where clarity should live. Instead we get user stories written by sleepwalkers. Acceptance criteria carved from marketing hallucinations. Product backlogs bloated with tasks that read like riddles carved into stone by a schizophrenic scribe. AI will build what you ask for. But it will not stop to ask if what you asked for makes any damn sense. Garbage in is still garbage out. Only faster. Now you can fail at ten times the speed and still hit your deadlines. The tragedy is not that AI replaces developers. It is that it obeys fools. We built the rocket ship. Now we are arguing about where to point it. No map. No mission. Just velocity. Everyone clapping while the dashboard catches fire. This is not a new era. It is the same circus with faster clowns. So ask yourself. Can you describe what you want with clarity. Precision. Consequence. Or are you just feeding the machine another half-baked idea and praying the output will carry the meaning you never put in to begin with. Because the devs are no longer your scapegoat. Now it is just you. A blinking cursor. A prompt window. And the crushing realization that writing code was not the only hard part. Writing exactly what you wanted was.

@davidfowl Mostly Windows with the WSL2 limitations (network/fs) and the fact that Microsoft shops have no Linux sysadmins

If you're not using containers for deployment, what's stopping you?

@beeradmoore @Dave_DotNet learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/a…

@Dave_DotNet Nope, because I am also a dummy that doesn’t get it. But I bet $10 it will have copilot added to it within 12 months 😅

Can you explain to a dummy like me what aspire is exactly? #dotnet

@Dave_DotNet I'm sure that you already know it. What is the point being made here? Adding a field is nothing simple. You are glossing over what data is in the field and what you have to do with it. You can always send json strings all the way to the database of changing files is the metric.

How many files and projects would I need to modify to do something simple, like capture an additional text field on the UI, with this architecture and structure? #dotnet

@prem_k @mkristensen I think that we will never reach that point with LLMs because models keep changing (algos, trainig data, sys prompts) and regressions/hallucinations/censorship/bugs will be always creep in. It is like having an employee that every month can be affected by a random mental illness

@mkristensen @Baffo_il Plus, we shouldn't just accept whatever the #LLMs generate. We are not there yet where we can accept without verifying what's generated.

What are your favorite prompts for GitHub Copilot that help improve your code?

@mkristensen How can the machine know "the why"? Won't that prompt just nudge the LLM to make up a plausible but mostly wrong comment?

I find this prompt pretty good for adding XML Doc comments: Add missing XML Doc Comments and mention the purpose, intent, and 'the why' of the code, so developers unfamiliar with the project can better understand it. If comments already exist, update them to meet the before mentioned criteria if needed. Use the full syntax of XML Doc Comments to make them as awesome as possible including references to types. Don't add any documentation that is obvious for even novice developers by reading the code

America stopped cancer research, but at least promised billions in GPUs to train obsolete AI chat bots.

No it won't