[zcw100]

People say that I'm cynical but wow this is just off the charts. It also makes me really optimistic that something big is right around the corner. When people start with the "it's all been done" and "nothing good or better will ever happen again" it just means they can't see how things will change. Because they're blind they won't see the next big thing creeping up behind them and when it finally does become apparent they'll exclaim, "Wow what a breakthrough" when the truth is more likely that it's been something that has been brewing for decades. I have some guesses about what the next ones are.

[aelmeleegy]

No one said it's been done. There has been healthy debate about the fact that there hasn't been any (major) new social media networks since Snap (and Instagram before it). The cloud computing paradigm is now mostly dominated by 2 players (with GCP a distant third). here are 2 major desktop OSes, 2 major mobile OSes. etc.

This isn't proof that it won't happen again, it just says that the rate at which new innovations in software (and a new workout app doesn't count) has slowed down. LLMs being the exception but it's not like you and I can start an AI company in our garage.

[secfirstmd]

This is a joke right? No new major social media networks since Snap? Eh what about TikTok?

[aelmeleegy]

Got me with that one.

[ipaddr]

The cloud paradigm is for players printing money that need a scalable way to catch all of those dollars by paying 1000 times more for compute on demand.

Create decentralized software and get ahead for the next shift.