AI was supposed to sell PCs. Instead, PC shipments just crashed 20% as AI eats the world’s RAM, and Windows 11’s Copilot agents aren’t convincing buyers

[u/After_Cookies]

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/11/ai-was-supposed-to-sell-pcs-instead-pc-shipments-just-crashed-20-as-ai-eats-the-worlds-ram-and-windows-11s-copilot-agents-arent-convincing-buyers/

[u/Errorr404]

No, no, you'll also need to buy their proprietary box to receive and decode the encrypted feed and for latency optimizations along with a subscription. Maybe I'm giving them too many ideas though...

[u/UltraGaren → u/Errorr404]

Nothing that a mob of angry users can't reverse engineer

Just look at the current state of the PS5

[u/Errorr404 → u/UltraGaren]

True, nothing stops hyper fixated coders when they get pissed off.

[u/Castun → u/Errorr404]

Weaponized autism does wonders.

[u/nooneisback → u/Errorr404]

The AI getting better part might have also backfired a bit.

[u/TeamWorkTom → u/nooneisback]

It's completely backfired. People are now reverse engineering so much and it's not going away.

This is only the start.

Imagine what this tech will do in a year.

[u/sips_white_monster → u/TeamWorkTom]

It's not as great as you think it is. It's a knife that cuts both ways. Yes you can decompile everything. But that also destroys the old market system where studios hire developers, pay them salaries, and then they make a product that can be sold. If that product can be deconstructed on day 1 by anyone with a GPU, then the product no longer has any value. That inevitably means studios disappear since they lose their revenue stream, or they will have to switch to some kind of streaming-only system where the end user never has access to any code but is instead given a video feed of the game as they play.

Only in the short term is AI going to make things better. In the long run AI means studios die out, game development as a job disappears and hardware will become too expensive for the average user, instead forcing them to use subscription-based systems where they use compute from a datacenter (thus surrendering all control to a handful of mega corporations).

[u/gokarrt → u/nooneisback]

yup. ai unwinds bullshit even better than it spins it.

[u/hotdwag → u/Errorr404]

Hell anyone can become a pissed off fixated coder with the power of AI. The speed at which these supposed cleanroom implementation of PS5 hardware emulation are coming out is crazy to experience at the very least

[u/Gamiac → u/hotdwag]

They're implementing system calls, I think, not hardware emulation. Think Wine/Proton rather than ZSNES.

[u/bigb1 → u/Gamiac]

PS5 has the same architecture (x86-64) no need to emulate it.

[u/Gamiac → u/bigb1]

Exactly. Everything that's being "emulated" is software, hence it being a translation layer like Proton or Wine.

[u/OneTrueKram → u/Gamiac]

Then how does that explain PS5 games like Wolverine and Demon Souls running on PC?

[u/BlazingSpaceGhost → u/OneTrueKram]

Look into how proton works to translate windows games to Linux. They aren't emulating the hardware because the hardware is off the shelf PC hardware. Instead they are translating ps5 system calls to native pc vulkan.

[u/OneTrueKram → u/BlazingSpaceGhost]

Ok so there’s a distinction in the emulator process but the end result (PS5 games on PC) is the same, right? Does that mean full blown PS5 games are easier on PC than say a PS3/4?

[u/BlazingSpaceGhost → u/OneTrueKram]

Much easier than PS3 certainly because it used a custom cell processor. However the PS4 also uses an x86 processor so PS4 games are probably as easy as PS5 games to port to PC.

The big change is these AI models are really good at reverse engineering. What used to take years is now apparently only taking weeks.

[u/OkFox8124 → u/Errorr404]

Honestly, it's why Linux even still exists/keeps progressing.

[u/LostClan → u/OkFox8124]

Everything that isn't your consumer products (and plenty of things that are) run Linux.

Pretty much every webserver is Linux. Every storage array is running some kind of Linux. All of those AI compute nodes are running Linux. Android is Linux. MacOS and IOS are either Unix (for full MacOS) or Unix-like (IOS) which is different enough, but as someone with plenty of Linux certs I can navigate my way around just fine due to Linux design principles. Same goes for switches.

[u/arnoldzgreat → u/Errorr404]

Problem is hardware, hacks can't manufacture new hardware. I really don't know how this train that is gaining steam is stopped because it really might be their only way out, they've invested so much into unprofitable data centers been pushing cloud computing/gaming for years.

[u/FewSuggestion3216 → u/Errorr404]

I think well be back to how it was back in the day with Terminals or well see many many more thin clients as OS and Software pushes more towards cloud only. History repeats and older computer system styles are much much better for profit and control.

[u/TeamWorkTom → u/FewSuggestion3216]

Delusional.

Cloud requires serves to work properly. Who's got the money to build these severes?

You think big tech wants to spend a premium on cloud during this AI boom?

That's just insanity.

[u/RegisFranks → u/TeamWorkTom]

....who do you think currently owns the hardware for "cloud"?

Imma give you a hint: its not us, the consumers, with our $5k 5090s.

[u/FewSuggestion3216 → u/TeamWorkTom]

What? They already have them?
Yes I do think big tech would bleed money for control, see the many companies that run in a loss just to destabilize.

[u/TeamWorkTom → u/FewSuggestion3216]

No they don't.

How many attempts at cloud gaming and computing has there been?

How many have actually succeeded?

Luna is propped up by Amazon so it's not the same as a service dedicated to cloud.

Have you seen the throttling and limited game time these services have been doing to their cloud services?

You clearly haven't been paying attention.

[u/algaefied_creek → u/Errorr404]

Ugh it’s cable companies all over again. That’s what Sam Altman meant when he said he wants to see intelligence as a utility?! 🤦‍♂️

[u/professorbuffoon → u/Errorr404]

Same as cable boxes, ISP-provided gateways, and similar. This is not a new idea.