[pigpop]

This is just a repackaged argument against SaaS and cloud infrastructure. Every business could be using subscription free spreadsheet software and storing all of their data on prem and employing an IT team to manage the servers and data but the majority choose to pay a third party to handle all of that. Hell, they could even go so far as to do it all manually with written records and filing cabinets. All of those workflows still exist in varying degrees scattered across the myriad of businesses, the existence of SaaS doesn't eliminate the others. AI seems to be playing out in a very similar way with the big providers, local models and die hard human programmers.

[bigstrat2003]

> This is just a repackaged argument against SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

Which, ironically enough, is still a terrible idea for a lot of businesses. But it's trendy, so they go with it.

[jacamera]

The crazy thing is how cheap it is to spin up a cloud server, but how little actual processing power you're getting for your money. Even if the business manages to keep their cloud spend in check it's probably going to be at the expense of a terrible user experience because everything in the web app will feel slow and all that matters is individual P95 request latency is within some arbitrary number of seconds.