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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 19:09:10 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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   The inconvenient truth for scale-up capitalists with an AI boner is that people prefer dealing with other humans when anything gets a bit non-routine. Even people who grew up with technology. We may prefer messaging instead of phoning these days, but 10 minutes of attention from one real person who gets it is worth 10000 automated agents

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 19:09:12 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

     The main advantage of being a small player has always been that you don't have to do what all the big companies are doing, because they have a desperate amount of FOMO about staying relevant / trendy / a hot stock. People like the personal touch, the developer they can talk to, the support service that actually takes the time to listen to them as individuals instead of only considering them a data point in a data set that they'll extract the worst conclusions from

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.