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They are waiting for India to rename themselves to Bharat so Pakistan can claim the name.

Only in high value places.

I read an Economist article about the expected impact of AI on worker productivity and it found a major bifurcation of impacts.

If AI output could be trusted as is, productivity gains mainly went to less productive workers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the hard parts of the job. This could reduce wages since you can lower job requirements by using AI.

If AI output needed human processing and review, productivity gains mainly went to high performers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the easy parts of the job. This could reduce employment as high performers can do more by using AI.

Spotify would have to pay for added functionality. AI slop comes for free.

But that isn’t caring about your stack beyond that your stack isn’t shit.

Yeah. The only thing I’d clarify is if she is paying rent or contributing to the mortgage. Paying rent is cleaner and she isn’t paying half, but it is important to have an understanding about this in case there is a breakup or death.

That was a design decision by Steve Jobs to keep people from using them as wired mice.

Yes, because I grew up in an area where private pools were very common.

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.

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.

But no one is flying Southwest for a best in class experience. It doesn’t have to be a great system to use, just a system that does the bare minimum.

Is there really a need to extend functionality like there was 10 years ago?

Twitter and Tumblr are operating on skeleton crews but are able to make changes.

Craigslist is still around even though it hasn’t changed much since the '90’s.

There is an entire industry of companies that buy old MMO’S and maintain them at a low cost for a few remaining players.

Southwest Airlines still runs ticketing on a Windows 95 server.

I think you’ll see more companies accept managed decline as a business strategy.

I’m not saying you can fire everyone, but the maintenance team doesn’t need to be the size of the development team if the goal is to only maintain features.

Most extension today is enshitification. We’ve also seen major platforms scale to the size of Earth.

If you’re only going to maintain and don’t have a plan on adding features outside of duct taping AI to the software, what use is it maintaining a dev team at the size you needed it to be when creating new code?

I don’t know. I look at it like firing all your construction contractors after built out all your stores in a city. You might need some construction trades to maintain your stores and your might need to relocate a store every once in a while, but you don’t need the same construction staff on had as you did with the initial build out.

There are other problems for the homeless, but it makes treating those problems a lot easier when they have a home.

Yep.

To add to that, I’ve found a lot of people in the working class care a lot about class differentiators and will spend a lot of time trying to profess how they should be viewed at a higher relative ranking since they can’t rely on money or heritage to do it for them.

So, if you create an out group for them, a lot of them will latch on to that idea since it raises their relative value in a meaningful way.

I don’t think the Getty things is enshitification. It seems more like a regulatory issue

It depends on the form of employee ownership as to whether it works out for the employees.

In trucking, the industry uses the owner-operator model as a way to push costs onto employees and skirt labor laws. On paper, the truckers are their own bosses. In reality, they are effectively employees of logistics companies where the logistics companies can pay their employees less than minimum wage and push maintenance costs onto their employees.

In this case, ownership is used as a tool of oppression.