r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 13h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/StarKieeeeee 13h ago

Dam, they managed to release a beta with half the features of a launcher that has a tenth of the features Steam has

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u/DoctorMlemm 13h ago

Of course it launches twice as fast if it has half the fucking features, are they stupid?

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u/doglywolf 13h ago

this is exactly the short sightedness of Epic as a whole . Anyone with half a brain would realize they would be torn a new one with this exact comment all over.

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u/Master_Dogs 6h ago

A lot of companies are doing this. My startup is wasting so many tokens / $$$ rewriting a front end with some vibe coding nonsense. It currently is the same situation as this epic launcher nonsense, has half the features or less of the "legacy" one. It's like a carbon copy of a competitor too, which makes me wonder wtf our legal exposure is. And more importantly, why the fuck is management wasting resources on a rewrite? Any junior engineer knows rewrites take more resources than a basic refactor. PLUS the AI will have something to work with AND can be a useful TOOL to improve the existing experience.

I blame management, they're so out of touch. One VP is behind the vibe coding nonsense here, probably responsible for wasting half our AI spend. Though talking to him (and being extremely cautious around how I voice my concerns) apparently our sales team uses more tokens than him... Which blows my mind. We fucking suck at selling this shit so wtf are they doing. Probably wasting tokens on an out of office reply (real story from some other companies AI spending).

AI is cool but gah vibe coding is ruining software development. Stupid people just got a thousand monkeys to pump out shitty apps.