• brie@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Good observation. Could it be that Microsoft lowers profits by including unnecessary investments like acquisitions?

    So it’d take a 100M users to sign up for the $200/mo plan. All it’d take is for the US government to issue vouchers for video generators to encourage everyone to become a YouTuber instead of being unemployed.

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        3 days ago

        Maybe it’ll be able to come up with coherent naming conventions for their products. That would be revolutionary

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        4 days ago

        That’s basically Neuromancer, and at this point it seems that big tech companies are reading dystopian cyberpunk literature as next-gen business advice books, so you’re certainly right

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        3 days ago

        AI is already running all software companies as the principle growth philosophy, but that’s like saying that gold used to run Colorado and California in 1800s. The executives have no choice at all but bet all in on AI now.