Did Starfield only cost 4x as much to make as HiFi? Doubt it. I’d bet the marketing budget of Starfield alone dwarfed the lifetime cost of HiFi. I agree that “bombed” is maybe too harsh but the problem that the article is talking about is ROI. As I continues to balloon, R needs to keep up and it’s not.
I think that undersells most of the compelling open source libraries though. The one line or one function open source libraries could be starved, I guess. But entire frameworks are open source. We’re not at the point yet where AI can develop software on that scale.
Why do you think AI will starve open source?
The above is pretty misleading. A typical Java program can be made into a Kotlin program with little changes, this is true. But Kotlin code, particularly when written using Kotlin best practices, bares very little resemblance to Java code. If you learn Kotlin first, you’ll find some of that knowledge does transfer to Java but then there’s plenty that won’t and you’ll have to learn the Java way of doing things too. Still, as a dev, knowing more languages never hurts. I’d still recommend proceeding with Kotlin.
So, a capitalism driven cataclysm, not an AI driven one. When your economic model fails because of technological advancement, you blame the model, not the technology.
Or they build trebuchets