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[–] 169 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Steam actually put out their update first. Epic had already lost their one point before they even released it

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The beta version at least. Tim probably rushed out announcement to hit the short window for claiming 'victory'. But he's so fucking stupid he couldn't tell how it'd obviously blow up in his and Epic's faces

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  • [–] 93 points 5 days ago (16 children)

    Well they can't vibe code away that random crash that's effected the launcher since day one...

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Tomatoes and potatoes are different fruit

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Potatoes aren't fruits, they're really soft rocks.

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  • [–] 49 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    This certainly seems like Steam already had a bug open for startup performance, but it was always a lower priority than other things (because it wasn't a breaking issue, and startup was still generally fine) so it was just never addressed. It may even have had a partial fix that hadn't been shipped yet, waiting for another pass at it.

    Once Epic tried to use that as an attack, they just fixed it as the low hanging fruit it was.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    For its next trick, Valve should make Steam as performant as it was before they made it Electronslop.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I just use epic for the free games, but with heroic launcher you don't even need to interact with anything but their webpage and download servers!

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  • [–] 33 points 5 days ago

    This meme gave me my morning chuckle and chortle before work. Thank you πŸ™

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  • [–] 26 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Steam update remind me of Meet the Heavy.

    Valve comes in, put the patch note down, and sit down

    "I am Valve."

    hold the patch note in its hand

    "And this is my patch note."

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago*

    Somewhat related, I like the new update for Steam on Linux that uses the most recent stable Proton by default for exe files that are added rather than having to pick it from a list every time.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    A real DayZ moment

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (22 children)

    Is that literally what Epic tweeted??

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  • [–] 65 points 5 days ago (11 children)

    No, they blogged it.. But it is a literal summary of what they wrote in that blog.

    Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look.

    And then they showed the figures for their new launcher compared to Steams.

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  • [–] 38 points 5 days ago* (4 children)

    What the actual fuck 🀣 Are we kidding right now? This blog post reads like an APRIL FOOLS JOKE, what is going on?!

    In fact, the whole post reads like it was vibed out of a computer asshole as well.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    You now accurately understand how fucking stupid almost all tech* CEOs and Department Heads actually are.

    *well actually any kind of CEO or senior management that bought into the "AI is magic! We don't have to manage people or workflows anymore!" flavor of AI psychosis.

    These people are largely incompetent buffoons with huge egos, who hate doing actual work, but must live a life like a baron of a medieval dominion, to sate their crushing need to feel special.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    It's just so wild to admit that "we vibed it". That feels so unprofessional, wtf.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    It is unprofessional.

    These clowns only know how to act at 'professional', not actually be it. They are craven, the only thing that matters to them is power.

    These are the same kind of people as in the Epstein files. We can see their casual flippance, their plotting, their neuroses, their goddamned constant spelling errors.

    They're just fucked up idiots that people do not say "No" to!

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  • [–] 16 points 5 days ago (9 children)

    I always assumed vibe coding waw like the alur that people gave it. People use that in a professional setting?

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  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Yes, in my experience its goes like:

    me: " This is a problem for us"

    them: "Your 'problem' is simple. I can fix it, easy. Here is the fix, you're welcome."

    me: "Great! how does it work? how do we test it? did you get management to assign some resources for this?"

    them: "oh, this was vibecoded, so I'm not providing support , maintenance or user testing - that's your job isn't it? Here's a 250-page 'documentation'. I haven't read it, but I ran it through a second LLM and asked that to fix any errors. So there's probably only a few left that you should be able to fix in a few minutes. "

    me: " I will take up work on a farm administering anal suppositories to sick horses because that will be a thousand times more tolerable . . ."

    them: " . . . by the way - it just operates using dummy data for now. You'll just need to link it in to the actual database before you release it."

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    So familiar. We had a requirement and said we would work it if management agreed, sales guy: "no need, I just vibed it", then confused as the very first person trying to use it fell over, and when they manually fixed the broken result, someone else demonstrated a critical vulnerability in the concept as vibed, even when working as 'intended'.

    Whatever utility the new stuff can provide, it's not worth the collatoral bullshit. Maybe after the bubble bursts and people get bored of coding without actually understanding what is going on more sane usage can happen...

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    If they try to appeal to a certain AI-techbro/political segment because they have given up on ever reaching a general audience, then yes, some people do use that in a professional setting. It attracts that particular segment while it has the nice feature to repel everyone else.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    oh boy. good that i never used that in the first place.

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