I figured the WoW backend would be way too complicated for a small team to make any kind of clone. I guess not.

Emacs came with AI long before any other editor (Eliza).

Predictions of the future are meaningless when applied to the present.

OK, well you're alone in that, because every software company has telemetrics of some sort or another to take advantage of the many eyes (users) and getting reports from them.

Why do people still use Oracle Java?

Making a better battery, or commercializing it, is a milestone. Putting a research battery into an airplane is not a milestone. It's a publicity stunt.

The first computers were extremely good, that's why they built them. Before that, tabulating machines were also extremely useful.

If you're going to make an analogy, make it factual.

This is the kind of stunt you do if you want people to believe in your vaporware. Instead of releasing actual stats about your battery, or simply building a mass scale factory, you put it into a little airplane. Small commercial electric planes are here now and you can buy them.

Wikipedia has a list of companies that claim they have invented solid state batteries, but none of them have entered scalable production. Another sign of vaporware.

There is no reason to prefer solid state batteries. It's just another battery technology, with charge times, weight, temperature safety ranges, mechanical stress limits, etc. If another battery technology gets you the better numbers in those metrics, then use the other battery technology. If the solid state battery does better, then prefer that.

Solid state isn't magic fairy dust.

I assume once they go public, the hype will kind of die down.

Either that or it will become more shrill, as hot air is passed through a narrower and narrower factual space.

Humor is the only thing that gets me through the day, along with amphetamines.

But no Blackjack, it's mathematically solved.

Nice, you figured it out.

I've suspected they were overbuilding/overpromising but I couldn't find the hard data to be sure.

No LOL. These datacenters don't employ many local residents. They wouldn't be getting the money.

They're not replacing them with software, they're just firing them. The AI is an excuse.

It's been happening:

I don't think AI deserves the blame, though.

Otherwise, the executives will have to admit they are wrong, which is career suicide. If you admit you were wrong, another executive can use that admission to backstab you.