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it would have taken me hours.

And I just, I don't think I would ever look at that task and be like, yes, this is worth hours of my time rather than doing actual work or things that are actually productive.

You know, put the quote, scare quotes wherever you want.

There's no chance I would have done that.

And what I think is unquestionably, incredibly powerful and fascinating

freeing, for lack of a better word, about LLMs and the ability they have to write code specifically, is that these sorts of things, those things like Underscore's doing, like you had said, and this N8n thing, and the tier list thing, you absolutely could have written that tier list, John, as you have said previously, but would you have bothered?

Eh, probably not.

Right.

And so I think, and you guys have each said this in your own way, but I just really want to plus one it that, that, that is what's so powerful to me about these LLMs and the agentic coding or vibe coding, whatever you want to call it this week.

I think that's incredibly powerful and incredibly freeing.

And I don't think that's limited to professional software developers, but I think that we are, to your point a moment ago, perhaps uniquely good at leveraging them for these sorts of things.

Oh, yeah.

John, let me assure you that could not be further from the truth.

Now, one final note on the AI stuff, and I know this has been going long, and I'm sorry, but you also wanted to call out that AI hardware use and the fact that it's slurping up, like these LLM vendors are slurping up all the hardware in the world, has had some real-world implications so far in a lot of different ways.

But perhaps most recently, the Steam Machine and Steam Frame are delayed because of AI-driven RAM and storage shortages and price increases.

From Valve, when we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now.

But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then.

Limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean that we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing, especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame.

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