Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
thequickben@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoYes. 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.
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.
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.
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.