he left to join cognition, an ai company
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
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They saw the microslop on his resume and hired him immediately
So it was a moral choice? MS were too moral for him?
No, just chasing the money before it pops.
Hell at this point though Xbox will probably pop before AI does. But you never know I guess.
Xbox has been gifted a chance with Sony's recent decisions. If they can't turn it around, they deserve to fail.
Tomato / tomato
He realized Microslop was going to let Xbox sink, and didn't want to go down with it.
And yet he left for an ai company
Plenty of AI companies are going to do something productive. Very few of the gigantic companies are going to do anything worthwhile with AI and will sell their compute.
Wish I could share that optimism.