Nilay Patel

Did that investment pay off the way you wanted it to three years ago?

And how are you seeing it now in an age of AI software development?

One of the iron laws of Decoder for however many years I've been doing this now is once you start investing in software, your investment only ever increases.

Yeah.

spend more on the software.

Right.

And this, it just feels like every decoder conversation for years now, I could just rely on that.

Maybe AI changes that, right?

Where maybe you're not making an infinite investment in software over time because you can hold it steady with automation.

Does it feel like that's real to you?

All right, noted.

Chris does not think the sass-pocalypse is here.

We'll have you back in a few years.

We'll see if that's true.

Let's talk about video games.

I want to wrap up here by talking about video games and then the culture and IP broadly because I feel like the way fandoms respond to IPs over time is changing, and I really want to get your take on it.

Let's just start with video games broadly.

Do you know how to fix the video game industry?

Because it doesn't seem like they know.

So I'm curious about this in your own slate of games.