WIRED 2026-03-18-1
Gamers' Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
The article's "RAMaggedon" thesis (AI eating gaming's memory supply) conflates segmented DRAM markets and mistakes a cyclical upturn for an existential resource conflict. The real story it buries is more consequential: studios eliminating junior developers while supplementing seniors with AI tools are hollowing out the apprenticeship pipeline. Five years of adequate AI-assisted output, then a creative cliff when those seniors age out and nobody learned the craft.