the old crowd is still going strong and have been proven largely correct because what they/we were really against was going from a “you own this software” model to a “perpetual licensing” model with price hikes, lock-in, and everything becoming a service.
it’s not completely enshittified, there are lots of great cloud-based services. some long-term, some at various stages of the enshittification curve.
same with AI. it doesn’t all suck, and it won’t all suck. but a lot/most of it does and will absolutely suck and it will enshittify many things.
The “fuck ai” crowd sounds so much like the “fuck cloud” crowd from 10-15 years ago.
And in which direcrion are we going?
Back from
everything into the the cloud v to Everything back on-premise or a hybrid model
Honestly those people are proven right every time there’s a data breach or service goes down for no discernable reason.
the old crowd is still going strong and have been proven largely correct because what they/we were really against was going from a “you own this software” model to a “perpetual licensing” model with price hikes, lock-in, and everything becoming a service.
it’s not completely enshittified, there are lots of great cloud-based services. some long-term, some at various stages of the enshittification curve.
same with AI. it doesn’t all suck, and it won’t all suck. but a lot/most of it does and will absolutely suck and it will enshittify many things.
I’m still anti-cloud
(I admit, I liked the cloud crowd better.)