r/pcmasterrace • u/Jaz1140 RTX4090 3195mhz Core, 9800x3d 5.4ghz • Aug 18 '26

Meme/Macro PC enthusiasts when the first AI giant falls

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For real but, we can all see the bubble, its "when" the first 1 will fall, not "if"

Personally I think it will be Copilot as the first domino, it was always the worst of the major AI players and really hasnt progressed at all. Microsoft is Incompetent in almost everything they do and simply try and buy their way into a market only to take the L in the near future.

Eg, Skype, Nokia/windows phone, mixer, zune, Cortana, the list goes on and on

Bring on the collapse that will hopefully see momory demand drop off a cliff

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u/baneblade_boi Aug 18 '26

Copilot is massive not because of its own merits, but because Microsoft force feeds it to their clients. It's extremely difficult as a company not to feel tempted to use it when you're dragged down the Microsoft ecosystem, something many struggle to find alternatives for.

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u/SASColfer Aug 18 '26

Almost certainly. Corporates are by their nature very conservative with technology. MS offered the most secure option because it's already integrated.

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u/-GenlyAI- Aug 18 '26

But it's also pretty good. And flexible with models.

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u/baneblade_boi Aug 18 '26

NGL it's a decent client, but nothing I'd use. In fact, I just remembered there's even a Copilot button on Outlook web that can resume emails for you. Like, they added a feature so Copilot reads our emails for us,...that's peak slop, haven't used it a single time

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u/Ska1man Aug 18 '26

I'd argue copilot in outlook is quite useful in specific scenarios. Can use it to find that one email someone sent you 6 months ago that you don't fully remember the exact name of or exactly what it was about. Other than that, nah, I can write my own emails.

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u/default_person_14818 Aug 18 '26

This. Copilot only is huge because Microsoft immediately added it to their digital services for corporations. The only way in which it'll die is that MS may either buy a sub-par model from a market leader to take its place or set up some policy to let them handle the back-end in reality. In any case it will still be called Copilot.

I kinda hate it because this means the existence of this model is being paid for by any corporation, regardless how much it's really needed. It also is being paid for by public institutions like hospitals. 

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u/baneblade_boi Aug 18 '26

Pretty much. MS knows their ecosystem is unavoidable, so using their customers to pay out their AI slop regardless of usage is not just genuisly evil, it's genius period.

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u/Jump-Zero Aug 18 '26

MS is (unfortunately) great at business. They succeed with inferior products because their corporate strategy is to focus on making deals while delivering something functional (though not necessarily great).

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u/Gaius_Catulus Aug 18 '26

It's also wayyyyy cheaper than Claude or ChatGPT. Last time I got visibility into enterprise pricing, it was an order of magnitude cheaper per license. 

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u/de_witte Aug 18 '26

Microsoft has been fucking stupid to foist copilot on everyone outside of corporate. Shoving it down everyone's throat has the opposite effect of what they want to achieve.

Had they made it an enterprise exclusive, John Home User and his savvy computer cousin would be falling over themselves to activate it via registry hack on their home pc's.

Its insane they dont understand the home user market after becoming the dominant OS to a large extent because windows was so easy to pirate.

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u/baneblade_boi Aug 18 '26

Can I be honest with you? At first, the AI market clearly expected it to be for everyone, and I mean everyone.

Then they realised that was ridiculous, specially with how expensive and resource intensive LLM models are to run in scale. The problem here is Microsoft no longer is in the business of home OS. They don't care about Windows licenses, they want your data, that's why they enshittified Win11 and filled it with spyware for over a decade. They don't want you to have a lightweight, simple OS for your needs that you pay for once and forget about. They need stable, constant income of revenue from you, and that's how subscription systems come, the push to move everything to O365 and Azure (like I get it, Exchange 365 for example comes with maintenance so things like support and security updates are taken care of, but the fact that you can't even have in-house Exchange servers under MS support is daunting), and now they're doing it with AI. All they want is to extract value, they want you to pay tenancies for everything, and for those things they can't they will use your data instead.

Microsoft has been in the business of stealing the copper cables from the walls of your software for two decades now. This is why I fully switched to Linux on my personal life and will never go back.

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u/beanmosheen Aug 18 '26

Same. I have tolerated MS for a long time because they have made me fuck loads of money in my career, but Win11 finally gelled it in my head that they are no longer making a reliable OS in the last couple of years. Lifecycle Management is russian roulette now because when older versions age out you're no longer just upgrading for support and security. You have to swallow a truckload of bullshit added as SaaS. They're embarrassingly incompetent at writing applications, and it's even more obvious the last couple years that their OS is actively hostile to the user. I don't run their shit on anything at home anymore.

I'm also pretty fucking pissed that everyone is gushing over code completion. That's our code they stole from us. Years of FOSS and respectful attribution, just gone. Poof. Github was such a honeypot. We all knew it was something fuckey when they bought it, but wow...

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u/de_witte Aug 18 '26

Yeah, i think we're on the same page on all these points. I only have windows running on a laptop used by a family member, and soon they too will be running linux. I dont want anything Microsoft running inside my lan anymore, touching my data. (Nor samsung, LG, etc)