jeffisabelle
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
Many people pay to use _AI tools_, that already brings in revenue. I had chatgpt plus since very early days, which was 20$/month, I don't have it at the moment because my company provides pro plan to me (and every other engineer) which is probably around 200$/month/user.
Of course, serving a single inference on LLM's probably costs a lot more than a serving a single search on google, but they've already got a solid business model and they won't need intrusive adds _in a few years_ (if at all)
I think you are kind of mistaken here, as a _devops_ I never enforced our development teams to use docker, or another specific tooling. The thing is, software engineering become a whole lot difficult and complicated over the years. When I was first learning web-development 15 years ago, notepad was the only thing you needed to do web-development, now look what you need to have to have a simple CRUD app running locally. Setting up local environments become so much harder, so people found the answer within the containers as you set it up once and you can share it within the team easily. Please do not blame _devops_ for that.
You don't have to run your app via multiple docker images locally, you can still configure everything to work natively. It's just way more difficult because of the dependencies of modern technologies.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/06/apples-ap...
I'm thinking exactly opposite. I wonder why people change their IDE's/Editors so much between Eclipse/Visual Studio/IntelliJ or between notepad++/sublime-text/atom/VScode/coda/text-mate etc.
What's wrong with using vim or emacs and being happy rest of your career? It's funny so many of my colleagues kid me by saying "emacs is a great operating system but it lacks a good editor" without ever trying it while I'm using emacs without a problem for the last 6-7 years and people around me changing their editors every year to "popular editor of the year" for better features/performance.
I have never publicly shared the product anywhere and lost my enthusiasm to develop it further, but most of my friends are happy that it keeps them up-to-date on the topics they actually care. I humbly welcome you to try if you generally enjoy reddit content.
I really don't like this trend. The same thing happened with facebook with notifications. They looked at the data and figured that when people have notifications they tend to open the app more. Then started to send tens of unwanted notifications every day. (Which comes from eg. groups that I never joined, or games etc.) Result: hard blocking notifications from the mobile OS level.
I hope twitter doesn't follow the same path. (Actually they already do this at some level with 'your friend x & y liked tweet z' notifications)
These retention things just kill the apps that I already love. But since the trend is this way, it is probably working out for majority of people and not for me.
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