IAmDannyBoling, 10 days ago

@rysiek

<yawn> 🥱 me too. isn't it over yet?

datarama, 11 days ago

@rysiek A hype cycle that promises the owning class that they can fire everyone soon is, unfortunately, probably not going to die down quietly.

rysiek, 11 days ago

@datarama oh, even the owning class might slowly be noticing that the hype is, well, hype.

And this is an opportunity for everyone else, too!

Plenty of suddenly unemployed talent, up until recently working for Big Tech, is available and probably pretty angry at their old employers.

Plenty of incumbent products that got enshittified beyond the point of usefulness — can't wait for new search engines, for example!

Might be easier to build them now, with that talent on the market… :ablobwink:

datarama, 10 days ago

@rysiek Search engines: While everyone is singing the praises of Kagi, I've found that for the sorts of things I'm interested in, marginalia.nu is often very useful. And it's run by one guy in Sweden.

AI hype: I think the cycle's length and intensity is directly proportional to how much these people want to believe.

rysiek, 10 days ago

@datarama oh certainly.

rail_, 11 days ago

@rysiek yeah let's have something interesting and maybe not morally corrupt this time

rysiek, 11 days ago

@rail_ one can dream, but I think hype cycles are unlikely to be ethical.