It is pretty common to write unit tests for functionality that doesn’t exist (test driven development). It gets you to think about, and test, everything that needs to exist in the program before writing the program. This approach doesn’t always work, particularly in large code bases where you need to learn the structure of a module before you can even think about design.

‘Freezing the results’ is ok too, as long as you know the results are currently correct. The AI has no way of knowing this and poor programmers often don’t verify either.

It is very easy to write a shit test.

Just make copilot it’s own program that is uninstallable, remove it from everywhere else in the OS, and let it be. People who want it will use it, people who don’t want it won’t. Nobody would be pissed at Microsoft over AI if that is what they had done from the start.

Yeah, you need to install the Heroic launcher. Download the game, then in steam, add it as a non-steam game. This will let you access it from the nice UI.

And yet, they still beat out their competitors on this front.

Every other platform is simply worse. The only one who even tries to be better is GOG, of which they do a good job for DRM free, which gets sales from me.

My question to you is: why would anybody buy something other than on those two platforms? There is not a single advantage to Epic’s or Amazon’s game store I can think of. They don’t have good Linux support, they don’t have a good review system, they don’t have forums, they don’t have mod delivery systems, they don’t have any better sales, they don’t have family sharing, they don’t have in-home streaming.

Edit: And don’t get me started on the Microsoft store…