True. For those that doubt, ask the average "tech" user about the file system on their daily device, be it a "smart" phone, tablet, PC, or whatever. Some junior developers are thrown off by.... partitioning and formatting.

So, yes, 400 mil. desktops were retired and replaced with a mobile device and apps, likely for a monthly cost

Perhaps, but you don't need a financial crisis to explain the fall of Xbox.

This handheld not Microsoft hardware, though, it's an Asus.

I recall a comment by a programmer saying: "I asked AI to refactor my code. Now it's clean, elegant, and nothing works."

Yet, consider this -- consoles used to get price cuts quickly. The SNES launched for $199, but the next year it was selling for $149, and then $99. Meaning, most people paid much less than launch price. On the other hand, the Switch never got a price cut, so in practice it was more expensive; expect the same for the Switch 2.

Heard it's more like a 1050Ti.

But is there a reason to, other than you want to use a DE that doesn't support Wayland?

And what a tragic mistake that was.

The idea is that you can boost a new product by tying it to an established brand. But it can also cause confusion and devalue the brand. You could say, for example, the PlayStation Portable is that done right, and the Xperia Play (aka "PlayStation Phone") is that done wrong.

Any connection between genii and jinn is dubious.
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This pluralization makes no sense as "genie" comes from Arabic, not Latin.

From the article, AI coding is considered by the executives a full replacement for creating code.

The old way, and in use by some today, was to create code by hand, similar to writing a story. Your mind created it. Then add autocomplete, which most of the time saved on typing, but sometimes interrupts the train of thought.

Now, instead of creating, you get to assemble AI generated snippets, with what amounts to productivity quotas.

The worst part for the Dev and QA teams will come later, when the AI generated code stumbles on a gap, that the automated tests did not fine, and no one has actually read all of the related code. It might be like patching a twenty year old application; start with a lot of reading.

Maybe to the directors and up, AI coding is supposed to all the things that "Agile" is supposed to be, and more.

"I know this is modern Slashdot...", I wonder how many posts are by bots nowadays?

Look at Venezuela and North Korea. They were driven to poverty by mad rulers but the people still can't get rid of them.