I think I know about kotaku for 15 years now, but I can’t remember any instance where they published an article that was worth reading. It is another instance of wasted resources that can only exist because not enough people are using adblock.

Has AI really atrophied their tech skills that much?

These people never had any skill to begin with. They only have a codebase now because of AI.

A quality disc can last 10 years or more. At a company I used to work at the backups were burned to discs coated with gold. They had 15 year old discs that still worked.

the guy who designed it is stuck somewhere 10-20 years in the past.

Well, using containerization for everything is very 2015-ish.