Steam Frame Released (To Some), Recompilations Now GenAI Battleground

• I give my big Dragon Con recap of the panels I hosted. While I didn't get to do much else, I did go into the arcade once and got to play some games. We also talk about why the biggest cosplay group was not from a movie or TV series, but from a book.
• The Steam Frame has finally gone on sale - for some buyers. A reservation system was used and sadly I did not win the lottery to give Valve my money, and probably won't for a year or so, as there is definitely not enough supply to meet demand, even with the price being higher than many people wanted to pay.
• Recompilations are becoming the new Generative AI battleground, as many people who did not want to take the time to learn how to develop software now use Generative AI tools to develop the software that they want - like making old games run on current hardware with different art and sounds. Some groups are fighting against this, and the Donkey Kong 64 Randomizer community is creating DK64 Recompiled without using GenAI.
• This leads to a discussion about GenAI usage in hobbyist development, as people who merely had ideas and dreams can now actually execute those ideas without dealing with knowledgeable people.
• We talk about one restoration team in Commodore 64 history now credits Claude with their project working at all, and they state that their restoration would not exist without GenAI - despite having an original developer from 1986 on the team. (He also uses Claude exclusively today.)
• We do touch on the doomerism of "AI will kill us all" (it won't) and that the majority is actually perfectly fine with Generative AI usage.

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