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1. torben-friis · 1790026444 · focus · HN ↗

   Here's my constant question:

   Everyone's going so fast that they keep hitting walls. Review, CI, product asking for things, whatever.

   Why have we not seen an improvements in products?

   While every post and thread feels like a 90's wall street office, the new android and iphone ship with fewer features than usual. No indie guys come up with a linux-sized alternative OS. Switch 2 remains unhacked. Windows takes 3 seconds to show the right click menu.

   Is everyone just running full speed in circles or something?

   1. girvo · 1790027164 · focus · HN ↗

      The follow on question is if it's making us all so much more productive, where is the increased revenue? As far as I can tell, it's mostly the AI labs seeing that, not everyone using them (modulo small founders building new things and doing okay, I think)

      1. pianopatrick · 1790034828 · focus · HN ↗

         Personally I believe that this boost in productivity will not necessarily lead to greater revenue.

         All the companies have the same access to AI, and AI is making them all better at doing what they were doing before (writing software). So some companies that use AI really well may be able to take market share from other companies that are slow. But I think this might just lead to a more intense competition for customers.

         Kinda like what happened to music after digital recording became the thing - we have more music than before and the music is better, but being a musician became a much more intense competition to find an audience.

         1. oblio · 1790058258 · focus · HN ↗

            People won't want to hear this, but for FAANG things are probably similar. I'm not very convinced that Meta, for example, is actually creating new revenue. It's just consolidating a lot of the existing global ad spend, it's just wrecked newspaper classifieds and the like.

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