Not if they need a server. I think you might be imagining this from an MSP perspective.

> Because people focus on their core competencies

The IT department handles the computers, it's always been that way. There is no group more competent at it than the IT guys.

> those jobs are mostly gone now, it’s a data center monkeys job

Onprem is still very much a thing, especially since AWS and VMware became expensive in the last couple of years.

The local/cloud thing is cyclical (started with mainframes, went to the pc, then back to the cloud) and I reckon with the cost of ai tokens the push back to local will be led by people running their own ai farms

Get rid of the very site you're on then?

> issue is when that is manipulated into you need to spend more time on them artificially

Yeah, like how hn has an algorithm that ranks stories to maximise engagement... obviously this is not bad but somehow tiktok is bad

Your quoted quote.

Steam engines weren't affordable to the average person when they were invented. Same as ai

And like steam, AI does some types of work quicker and easier than was previously possible.

Ai produces slop no doubt, but at the very minimum I can safely say it's here to stay for agentic coding, and I suspect it's the same for quite a few other industries as well. I won't lose my job to an AI agent, but I will lose to it to a human using an AI agent. That's technology,deal with it

Youre hysterical

Same will happen with the jobs AI takes

> Shoes are the classic example. Automation made them cheaper and accessible to everyone

Like you said, cobblers just do different things now

There's more to it than dependencies. It's a valid point.

> I think ELF is the official standard for executable binary. The competition is illusory. There’s nothing preventing anyone from distributing a self extracting archive that installs on /opt. Packaging on Linux is about your system consistency, not software availability.

I think he meant .MSI and not .exe, but the point remains and is still valid. Why are there multiple ways to skin the same cat?

A simple question none of the ai-doomsayers can answer... who buys anything when nobody has a job cos robots do everything?

Vi key bindings don't apply outside of vi

It's because humans are motivated primarily by fear, not logic.

The exact same moral panic was made about fuckin printed books. This is all hysteria, just like the TV is evil phase everyone went through. Proof of this is that nobody can even agree what social media is, let alone point to what's actually harmful about it

How would this work exactly? How do you speak to people offline?