[iggori]

Thanks for reading it. The arcade metaphor is not about business models but about the pattern of optimizing for spectacle over durability. The point is that many AI products behave like arcade machines in the sense that they are impressive in isolation but collapse when they have to deal with state, dependencies, or long running tasks.

On the redundancy point, I appreciate the feedback. The piece is part of a larger series where I intentionally revisit the same idea from different angles to make the underlying pattern clear.