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tavavextoday at 2:33 PM4 repliesview on HN

Anyone else here enjoy living in the future? Look at us, we get AI megacorporations ruling the world and bestowing us with the power to use their servers for just $20-200/month. It's practically charity, and all we had to give up for it is all consumer hardware, the quality of the internet and our own jobs. I love it here!


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maipentoday at 7:40 PM

The "worst" part of this comment, is that it's not even exaggeration. In the last 6 months, my competition increased 5x. People that didn't have the skills to compete, now do. My margins will keep shrinking while hardware and servers gets more expensive.

It's a fucking miserable future for us software people.

Architecting and "good taste" won't be good enough to put food on the table next year...

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Traubenfuchstoday at 7:53 PM

Welcome to the cyberpunk future.

Theodorestoday at 6:13 PM

Sometimes I look at dystopian futures from literature and wonder what the problem is.

I suspect some might prefer 1984 for the stability, some might prefer Brave New World for the Soma and some might prefer Wall-E because life looks good with B+L.

throwaway-11-1today at 6:42 PM

Wish I could shake the hidden hand in gratitude