In 2008, no one was going to put all their personal data.
In 2023, everyone puts their personal data in the cloud.
Reality is not fractal. Signal attenuation exists in a variety of forms.
The difference between now and dot bomb is greatly improved computer, network performance, reliability, and many many more well trained people working on AI problems.
AI is generating rudimentary frontend code for me. I don’t need it to be Google scale. It may get complex logic wrong, but it can emit simple boxes and button code to cut-paste together just fine.
Horse and buggy makers did not vanish over night. The programmer signal of value to the economy is indeed attenuating.
Xitter ditched thousands of devs and it still runs as a technical thing. The market for devs is over-saturated with boot campers and band wagoners due to the money printer bubble.
AI that can replace basic frontend work is not far off. AI that can generate 3D worlds is not far (I’m working on a version myself to later open source). AI may get facts in language wrong and never be AGI, but the color gradients and geometry we find makes acceptable UI is a finite set and deal with human UI glitches all the time.
Government and big tech are facing a prisoners dilemma with AI and trying to slow down the inevitable by disrupting progress. They’ll project memes that sound reasonable relative to spoken traditions in business and government, largely due to having no idea what else to do/say.
I say we all quit and focus on open source AI, let Jassy and Bezos work the warehouse. But I have enough years behind me to have just enough to have FU money. It’s easy for me to say that.
I never went to one of their offices. Probably boring office park vibes. Unlike the space donut and amusement parks it sounds like Apple and Google workers require to crank leetcode
Hilarious to me Oracle has no issue with remote work while Apple, Amazon, Google, all flip out
Deals they cut, whether it’s leases or tax breaks, are not my responsibility.
Aside from Apple, the only thing the anti-remote places have is brand recognition. The knowledge they possess is worker knowledge. They’re having a hard time justifying valuations since their real social value is corralling workers who are then too busy to storm DC, and those workers seem keen to corral themselves.
In 2023, everyone puts their personal data in the cloud.
Reality is not fractal. Signal attenuation exists in a variety of forms.
The difference between now and dot bomb is greatly improved computer, network performance, reliability, and many many more well trained people working on AI problems.
AI is generating rudimentary frontend code for me. I don’t need it to be Google scale. It may get complex logic wrong, but it can emit simple boxes and button code to cut-paste together just fine.
Horse and buggy makers did not vanish over night. The programmer signal of value to the economy is indeed attenuating.