With how fast steam deployed this change, it had to have already been in the works for a while (dev time, testing, etc.). The only reason the Steam startup performance improvements are even news is that Epic decided to throw away more of what little credibility they have left to try to make Valve look bad, and failed enormously. Vibe coding isn’t competition; it’s lazy and a mistake.
Could well have been a case of a programmer going “why is it so slow to open… Oh, it’s trying to access a URL that hasn’t been available for 6 years and timing out.”
With how fast steam deployed this change, it had to have already been in the works for a while (dev time, testing, etc.). The only reason the Steam startup performance improvements are even news is that Epic decided to throw away more of what little credibility they have left to try to make Valve look bad, and failed enormously. Vibe coding isn’t competition; it’s lazy and a mistake.
Could well have been a case of a programmer going “why is it so slow to open… Oh, it’s trying to access a URL that hasn’t been available for 6 years and timing out.”