Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.

Who is asserting that? Is there data to back it up? And which audiences are we talking about? Which products? Which industries?

As far as how I'd decide, I'd ask people. Data is a good thing to use when making decisions. Don't let data dictate all decisions, but don't just blindly guess either. Ask, measure, analyze, and think about the results. Then decide.

So yeah, your analogy works. Better than you intended.

wat. No. There are plenty of devs who hate how AI is changing the work, and would be thrilled to go back to the old ways. I am seeing so many arguments that amount to "We all have to use AI because... we all have to use AI." People start with the assumption that AI will take over and then use that to work backwards and prove that we all must use it for everything.

If anything, we're starting to see the opposite. I'm hearing more and more discussions from my clients that the increasing cost is not sustainable, and the increase in problems is not the result they were hoping for.

There is a strong argument that such clients aren't using agentic processes correctly. But at the same time, when I show them how to improve such processes, the bills go even higher.

We have not yet landed on the tools and processes that will make AI take over all work. Nor have we proven that such a scenario is inevitable.

Just a PSA for anyone dealing with medical support lines of any kind in the USA. When they ask whether you have a plan, no matter what topic you are talking about, they are not just making small talk. They are at a decision point in their script - a nice little diamond on a flowchart with different paths for "Yes" vs. "No." Your answer will change path of the conversation.

The best move is to give a thought out, honest answer to that question.

Just because you have one valid use case to send an email does not mean that anything you send is not spam.

Pagination is a thing, for a reason. What problem is solved by loading everything into the browser at once?

Overall, this is not a tech problem. You are trying to use a web site to replace a communication gap with your family.

I would prefer that it lands in the same place as any other topic - if it is interesting, it gets traction, and if it is boring, it does not. But how to make that happen is a challenge.

So has he been right often enough to do well for himself? Clearly, yes. But that does not mean he has an infallible sense of where the world is headed.

It is only in the coding/tech silos where people are still pushing to take it farther and farther. I simply don't see the market desire for it in other areas of life.

Even back 8-10 years ago when having gobs of microservices each in their own container was the rage, every place I worked had various ways to run specific services locally, while leaving the rest in the cloud. Or is that exactly what they have now done?

Either way, the lack of technical info makes it difficult to tell how interesting this really is.

If so, that seems fine. There are plenty of alternative UX tools to get to HN info in different ways. You made another one for yourself, which is A-OK.

But if you are using LLMs to draft comments for you or tell you what you should be up/down voting, that would cross a bad line.

I mean, yes, LLMs are an innovation. But outside of the tech industry, they are not having anywhere near the impact on people's lives as many other inventions.

Accept it. Do your work. Collect your paycheck. Go home and live your life. Save and invest. Build wealth from your 20s through your 40s, still be wealthy and independent in your 50s.

The idea that "a plateau is a bad thing" is rooted in ambition for its own sake. Not everyone needs that to be happy and satisfied with their life. No shade intended if you are one of the people who do want more, but for those of us who don't, acceptance of our reality is a really solid response to a plateau.