Good ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas.
replySlack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions.
Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they're worth billions.
There is a canonical hacker news post about Dropbox being useless and a pointless idea at one point :)
replyI always have a Mandela-effect moment about the Dropbox and iPod dismissive comments with Hackernews and Slashdot respectively.
replyGod I’ old
LLMs are now like major highways, and everyone thinks theyll solve software jams by just adding one more lane; but that just induces demand, and doesnt increase efficiency because the traffic jam is about how people evaluate usage and fill the voids.
replySimilar to how we upgraded computers for decades and the software bloated to fill the specs
> when the only purpose of those ideas
replyI quite enjoyed handwriting my article to be honest.