[jerkstate]

Always hilarious to see Zawinski’s Law in action: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1502...

[nytesky]

This was my first thought as well. Isn’t there another truism, where something advances to a common end state?

[rjbwork]

Convergent evolution would be the general term I think. Not sure if there's a pithy technological or software -ism.

[nlawalker]

The form of this that became a meme relatively recently was carcinization - "everything becomes crabs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

[nytesky]

This is what I was thinking of, thank you!!

[swyx]

their only mistake was calling it “mail” and not “DM” which is just gen z mail

[xnx]

Zoomail?

[yamrzou]

Or "Chatbot"