Levels.fyi data from 1 October 2025 reveals senior engineers at £206,000 ($375,000) total, but Valve’s equity-heavy model amplifies this, drawing top talent without micromanagement.

This article was here the other day and made it sound like employees are treated very well.

XKCD has a few of these tear jerkers that rank as some of my favorite all time strips

This does sound pretty rad

If AI kills us all this is how it happens

Why impossible? Genuinely curious

Priced in the upper audiophile style of “More Money than Sense”

How will I know if down detector down detector is down though

I love Laura Dern so much

Oh good we need more AI projects right now

I’d just like to have to trim my nails less frequently

Seems like a fine time to jump in

Do they really not have a wired option? Bummer

The VR market is splintered into several smaller ones with each maker offering exclusives. So there probably is ten truly great games but they are split across each store.

I feel like if these companies really wanted VR to take off they should work to be sure any game is available on any headset to start building the critical mass they need to actually have a functional player base. Only the enthusiasts are going to spend time researching what set offers what.

There are so many fewer great experiences with VR than with flat gaming so it’s much, much more important. I am pretty sure Valve understands this but you still have Meta and Sony hoarding exclusives and limiting the overall experience.

I know they don’t have the same supply chain at all but Apple sells an entry Mac Mini for $600. That makes me feel like a similarly priced Steam Machine is possible.

Only personal experience but I have friends newly excited about VR woth this announcement

When Facebook was just starting to be popular I was telling my uncle how people will get exposure to more of the world and be more open to it. He told me he was afraid the wrong people would find each other too. Fast forward 15 years he gets red pilled and dies of Covid.

I was willing to take it with a grain of salt but that paints a pretty bleak picture

It just pisses me off that they have all the money in the world for their datacenters but not for the systems that power it

If anyone has an extra $5k lying around I promise I would make great use of this thing

I am having trouble seeing how OpenAI survives without investment cash. What exactly is their moat? I know they are hoping to power the AI behind everyone else’s tech but that is more and more untenable as the others develop AI models of their own.