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> There's an obvious question looming here — if the models got so confused, how did they consistently pass the reconciliation checks we described above? It may seem like the ability to make forward progress is a good proxy for task understanding and skill, but this isn't necessarily the case. There are ways to hack the validation check – inventing false transactions or pulling in unrelated ones to make the numbers add up.

This is hilarious. I wonder if someone is unintentionally committing fraud by blindly trusting LLMs with accounting. Or even worse, I bet that some governments are already trying to use LLMs to make accounting validators. My government sure wants to shove LLMs into digital government services.

I get that, but what are the particular examples of such jurisdictions? For example, when I run the linter that fixes my code formatting, no one will think that I did not create it. What about autogenerated code? Is it not copyright-protected?

This is untrue; many tried. Almost every major publisher has its own launcher. The problem with them all is they absolutely suck. Even Epic Games Store, the biggest competitor with the most money poured into it, is ridiculously bad in almost every way. Aside from the lack of network effect, it just misses most of the QOL features, is slow, ugly, and very unpleasant to use. Almost universal agreement in the PC gaming community is that EGS is a bootloader for free games that it throws at the user. Every time I use EGS, I am constantly amazed by how bad it is, despite probably tens of millions of investments.

The second point that the article completely misinterprets is Microsoft's role. Microsoft (Xbox specifically) is hands down the closest company to beating Steam in its own game. PC game pass provides a constant stream of very good games available on day one for dirt cheap. The work that Microsoft is doing on optimizing Windows for games in general and for handheld consoles in particular is very promising (see Xbox Ally X). This is the threat that Valve faces. Not just a better store, but the absence of a store and "buying games" in general. For example, I intended to buy The Outer Worlds 2 on launch. Now that I know it will be available day one on Game Pass, there is almost zero chance that I will buy it on Steam or anywhere else.