Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything

• thequickben@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. That’s at least half of the work I do on a daily basis. How else do companies in the same market compete with each other if they cannot add on to functionality and remain static? That’s a quick way to lose market share to your competition.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’re at a point of effective monopoly and vastly increased costs of creating competition.

    The spigot of free money has been turned off, so most projects today need to have a planned out ROI, which is why enshitification has become such a big thing recently. Improvement for competition sake is out the door unless the incumbent is weak or a jump is needed as the existing revenue stream is collapsing.

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    • thequickben@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What are you going on about? I don’t work in a space with a monopoly. My employer doesn’t have free money. They compete in a huge market and make money while doing so. Not every company has the business model you described. The world would not run if that was the case.

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      • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, but a lot of the discussion has been about those companies given how well they pay and how dominant they are in the industry.

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