[bilekas]

> It could simply be a tool, and we could get back to the real, unglamorous, but ultimately more rewarding work of using it to build better things.

I agree completely from a developer point of view, as for it being a bubble.. I'm not sure. It seems that it's a couple of companies enticing people to integrate things into their system so deeply that later, they can name their price and dictate their terms so that all technology falls in line with how they want things to play out.

We can see it already happening with VC investment not touching anything that doesn't have AI integrated.

Less innovation and creativity from smaller startups means less competition, which is great for business.

[dasil003]

Feels a little like AWS in that regard, no?

[bilekas]

In the sense of hosting and "cloud" when it was the craze at the time, yes. Absolutely. But what you developed and ran on the aws platform was not dictated by aws. If it didn't suit, you could adhoc it.

Great example though, so many companies grew from the IAC movement. Those were startups though, doing what Amazon probably didn't have the resources to do themselves and also didn't need to.

This AI craze feels to hit at a bit of a lower level, I feel awful for any junior or new Devs entering the market.

Edit for clarity : Hashicorps terraform wouldn't be here without making aws infra easier.